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The market for carbon credit lemons: Bad money drives out good.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107978291600659616

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#15yrsago Why ebooks’ success has nothing to do with screen quality http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/03/cory-doctorow-you-do-like-reading-off.html

#15yrsago DRM causes 75 percent of tech support calls https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/03/75-percent-customer-problems-caused-by-drm/

#10yrsago Average Congresscritter gets 1,452% raises when they turn corporate lobbyist https://www.republicreport.org/2012/make-it-rain-revolving-door/

#5yrsago Bruce Sterling’s SXSW 2017 keynote: what should humans do? https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2017/03/bruce-sterling-speech-sxsw2017/

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#5yrsago New York 2140: Kim Stanley Robinson dreams vivid about weathering climate crisis https://memex.craphound.com/2017/03/18/new-york-2140-kim-stanley-robinson-dreams-vivid-about-weathering-climate-crisis/

#1yrago Aviation bailout cost $666k/job https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/18/news-worthy/#aa

#1yrago Help news, not news-barons https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/18/news-worthy/#big-news

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Yesterday's threads: Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107973256689920250

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (Charles River Associates/Brussels), Mar 31
https://www.cra-brusselsconference.com/

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
https://2022.phillyemergingtech.com

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Recent appearances:

* The Bitcoin Podcast:
https://thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-podcast-387/

* Dangerous Visions: False Dawns and Wandergrounds - Dystopia, Then and Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7W77EbjPaM

* Safety Orange (This Week in Tech)
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/865

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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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/18/greshams-carbon-law/

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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is: "The Byzantine Premium: The contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy":

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-byzantine-premium-8411521db843

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Today's top sources: Steffen Böhm (https://twitter.com/SteffenBoehm).

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