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I'm coming to Miami!

Tomorrow (Oct 12) I'll be at Books and Books for a launch event for "Chokepoint Capitalism," Rebecca Giblin's and my new book about creative labor markets and monopoly power:

https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-chokepoint-capitalism-an-evening-with-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/

On Thu (Oct 13), I'm speaking at the Lincoln Network's Reboot Conference:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-a-conference-exploring-technology-culture-and-politics-tickets-322718568927

Hope to see you!

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Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning: IMPNet will give your model hallucination and you can't stop it.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109150537929276719

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Shelter in place: Prison for homelessness and lock-ins for home owners.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109150980158130528

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* I've worked on a number of high-profile failures https://twitter.com/warren_craddock/status/1579532951624175616

* The X of Generation X https://culture.ghost.io/the-x-of-gen-x/ (h/t Phil Gyford)

* Can data portability happen on video-sharing platforms? https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2022/10/11/can-data-portability-happen-on-video-sharing-platforms/

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#20yrsago Camping out for Eldred https://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000593.php#000593

#10yrsago Cheating F1 team wins the right to deduct its fines from its taxes https://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2012/10/can-i-get-a-tax-deduction-for-cheating.html

#10yrsago Australian Attorney General says that public scrutiny of spying bill would not be in the public interest https://delimiter.com.au/2012/10/10/govt-censors-pre-prepared-data-retention-bills/

#10yrsago Anti-choice Tea Party Congressman pressured pregnant mistress to get an abortion https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/10/10/1142602/-Anti-choice-GOP-Congressman-pushed-mistress-to-get-abortion

#10yrsago Pratchett’s Dodger: Dickens in Discworld https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/11/pratchetts-dodger-dickens-by-way-of-discworld/

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#5yrsago Court tells Trump that he can’t demand details and data on everyone who talked about protesting his inauguration https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/court-reins-in-what-data-anti-trump-website-must-give-up-to-feds/

#5yrsago The “mom and pop” business owner who loves Trump’s tax plan is a lobbyist for Oracle who will save billions https://theintercept.com/2017/10/11/tax-plan-trump-chamber-of-commerce-small-business-lobby-cisco/

#5yrsago Equifax: we doxed 400k Britons, erm, make that 700k, erm, we mean 15.2 million https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/equifax-issues-second-breach-estimate-correction-says-15-2m-british-affected/

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#5yrsago Volk: a sinister, Lovecraftian tale of eugenics, Naziism, and “radiant abomination” https://memex.craphound.com/2017/10/11/volk-a-sinister-lovecraftian-tale-of-eugenics-naziism-and-radiant-abomination/

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Yesterday's threads: Antitrust is - and always has been - about fairness; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109144809992545690

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon 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:

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, Books and Books (Miami), Oct 12
https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-chokepoint-capitalism-an-evening-with-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow/

* Reboot Conference, Lincoln Network (Miami), Oct 13
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-a-conference-exploring-technology-culture-and-politics-tickets-322718568927

* Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures – CREATe (Glasgow), Oct 17
https://www.create.ac.uk/copyright-evidence-synthesis-and-futures/

* Library Journal Day of Dialog (Zoom), Oct 20
https://www.libraryjournal.com/event/library-journal-day-of-dialog-2022-fall#program

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, Argo Bookshop (Montreal), Oct 23
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-at-the-argo-bookshop-tickets-430453747747

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with Douglas Rushkoff and Rebecca Giblin, Ottawa Writers Festival, Oct 24
https://writersfestival.org/events/fall-2022-in-person-events/surviving-apocalyptic-economics

* World Ethical Data Forum, Oct 26-28
https://worldethicaldataforum.org/

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

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Recent appearances:

* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (Columbia Global Freedom of Expression)
https://youtu.be/0YsnGkFG7o8?t=8412

* Canadians Connected 2022 with Amber Mac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2iM-tPdlnE

* Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon (Trashfuture)
https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/amazon-billing-amazon-for-amazon-feat-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

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Happy Spooky Season! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: 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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Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/11/rene-descartes-was-a-drunken-fart/

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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 "Bankruptcy protects fake people, brutalizes real ones"

https://doctorow.medium.com/bankruptcy-protects-fake-people-brutalizes-real-ones-cf9dec640c0a

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://nakedcapitalism.com/), /r/LateStageCapitalism (https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/), Bruce Schneier (https://www.schneier.com/blog/).

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