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I'm Kickstarting a DRM-free audiobook edition of Chokepoint Capitalism, the book Rebecca Giblin and I wrote about how tech- and entertainment monopolies rip off artists, and how to unrig those terrible creative labor markets:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/chokepoint-capitalism-an-audiobook-amazon-wont-sell/

("This book really gets it" - Stephen Fry)

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How Audible steals from creators (an Audible exclusive): The only part of "Chokepoint Capitalism" available on Audible.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108958200506760972

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1567561762819522562

Hey look at this

* SF Sewer Collection System Map https://sfgis-portal.sfgov.org/arcgis/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b0a6f9cdad294b11afc4161c374e47e5 (h/t Nelson Minar)

* Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32412-y

* After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html (h/t Hackaday)

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#10yrsago Charlie Stross and me at Makerbot, talking Rapture of the Nerds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fg6fWw6OnY

#10yrsago Radio circuit board laid out like the London tube map https://www.designboom.com/technology/yuri-suzuki-london-underground-circuit-map-radio/

#10yrsago Wells Fargo mistakenly forecloses on the wrong house, destroys elderly couple’s entire lifetime’s worth of possessions https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/owners-lose-possessions-after-home-near-twentynine-palms-is-mistakenly-foreclosed/

#5yrsago Judge tosses out Hulk Hogan lawyer’s suit against Techdirt over that guy who claimed he invented email https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170906/13431338159/case-dismissed-judge-throws-out-shiva-ayyadurais-defamation-lawsuit-against-techdirt.shtml

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#5yrsago Florida management company bans tenants from using storm shutters as Hurricane Irma approaches https://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm-beach-county/west-palm-beach/renters-told-theyre-not-allowed-to-board-up-windows

#5yrsago Ugandan ethics chief boasts of his new magic South Korean pornography filter and its efficacy against “homos” https://www.techdirt.com/2017/09/08/ugandan-government-obtains-mysterious-south-korean-built-anti-porn-machine/

#5yrsago Broward County GOP secretary split a female classmate’s skull with over 40 claw-hammer blows https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jose-lambiet/article171549182.html

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#5yrsago Case study of LAPD and Palantir’s predictive policing tool: same corruption; new, empirical respectability https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122417725865#articleCitationDownloadContainer

#5yrsago In an engineering paper, bunnie Huang and Ed Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay https://www.tjoe.org/pub/direct-radio-introspection/release/2

#5yrsago Epipen: Mylan and Pfizer let people die while jacking up prices on defective devices, says FDA https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/fda-slams-epipen-maker-for-doing-nothing-while-hundreds-failed-people-died/

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#5yrsago Equifax waited 5 weeks to admit it had doxed 44% of America, did nothing to help us while its execs sold stock https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/why-the-equifax-breach-is-very-possibly-the-worst-leak-of-personal-info-ever/

#5yrsago Brexit: UK Tories propose changing thousands of laws in secret, without Parliamentary oversight https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/great-repeal-bill-eu-withdrawal-democracy-rights-liam-fox-deregulation-a7934091.html

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August 24th's threads: Trump gave Moderna all the patent-waivers it needed to make a vaccine; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108878234393134780

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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:

* Canadians Connected (Ottawa), Sept 15
https://member.cira.ca/Events/CanadiansConnected/About.aspx

* Unfinished Live (NYC), Sept 21-24
https://live.unfinished.com/

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, Book Soup (LA), Sept 27
https://www.booksoup.com/event/cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), Nov 16
https://mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/save-the-date-9142941

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Recent appearances:

* Crypto and the Left (The Blockchain Socialist)
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/crypto-and-the-left-with-cory-doctorow/

* The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Current Affairs podcast) https://www.patreon.com/posts/cory-doctorow-on-68463645

* DRM Secretly Polices You (Daily Tech News Show)
https://dailytechnewsshow.com/2022/07/29/drm-secretly-polices-you-dtns-4327/

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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/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/

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

My latest Medium column is "Parenting and Phones, an Empowering Approach"

https://doctorow.medium.com/parenting-and-phones-an-empowering-approach-173e30d95bc6

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