Today's threads (a thread).
Inside: How to design an anti-monopoly interop system; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/05/time-for-some-game-theory/
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How to design an anti-monopoly interop system: On the colossal bad faith of Subaru and Kia.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107746827430515453
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#20yrsago CFO Magazine's glowing profile of Enron's CFO https://web.archive.org/web/20020212061253/https://www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,1340|9|||,00.html
#15yrsago RIP, Captain Copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20070203012806/http://www.captaincopyright.ca/
#1yrago Amazon's brutal warehouse "megacycle" https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/05/la-bookseller-royalty/#megacycle
#1yrago The Open Courts Act isn't open enough https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/05/la-bookseller-royalty/#free-pacer
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Yesterday's threads: A covid vaccine for your airways; Rail monopolies destroyed the American supply chain; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107741258551581028
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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Boskone 59 (Feb 18-20)
https://boskone.org/program/schedule-text-view/
* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (City Lights), Feb 27
https://citylights.com/events/dangerous-visions-and-new-worlds-radical-science-fiction-1950-to-1985/
* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
https://2022.phillyemergingtech.com
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Recent appearances:
* The End of Uber (The War on Cars)
https://thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the-end-of-uber-with-cory-doctorow/
* Moral Panic (Drug Science Podcast)
https://www.drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-moral-panic-with-cory-doctorow/
* It Could Happen Here podcast
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/an-interview-with-author-cory-doctorow-90500468/
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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My latest Medium column is "The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties"
https://doctorow.medium.com/the-inevitability-of-trusted-third-parties-a51cbcffc4e2
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