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Today only (Oct 26)! PM Press is holding a flash sale on my Outstanding Authors book, "The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" - it's 55% off!

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=362

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Substituting economics for politics is a failure: The verdict is in on "economism."

https://mamot.fr/web/@pluralistic/109241297763722803

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Hey look at this

* “Spontaneous Revolutions” Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/darwins-diagrams-of-plant-movement

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#15yrsago Board-game price-fixing https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/229526/mayfair-first-publisher-cap-retail-discount

#10yrsago Knuckles that promote literacy https://secure.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/8125668720/in/photostream

#10yrsago Carved pumpkin zombie lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyc27gei1BU

#5yrsago Haribo: sweetened with forced labor and abused animals https://www.dw.com/en/haribo-gummy-bear-ingredients-made-by-modern-slaves-documentary-shows/a-41036821

#5yrsago The New York Times is now a Tor onion service https://open.nytimes.com/https-open-nytimes-com-the-new-york-times-as-a-tor-onion-service-e0d0b67b7482

#5yrsago Record-breaking number of billionaires signals a second “Gilded Age” with inequality hitting 1905 levels https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/26/worlds-witnessing-a-new-gilded-age-as-billionaires-wealth-swells-to-6tn

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#5yrsago Australian government proposes jail terms for satire https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/australian-government-wants-give-satire-boot

#5yrsago Catalonian parliament declares independence from Spain https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41780116

#1yrago Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/27/crossing-a-line/#zero-fucks-given

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Yesterday's threads: Uline's billions fund voter suppression; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109235290540076671

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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 latest novel 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 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:

* Radical Book Fair/Lighthouse Bookshop (Edinburgh), Nov 10
https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin

* Chokepoint Capitalism at Waterstone's Oxford, Nov 12:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chokepoint-capitalism-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow-oxford-tickets-443951941207

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), Nov 16
https://www.clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-event/

* Big Ideas Live (London), Nov 19
https://news.sky.com/bigideaslive

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Recent appearances:

* Why Patients Should Hack Med Tech (Defcon 30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i1BF5YGS0w

* The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (Lithub)
https://lithub.com/cory-doctorow-why-our-current-tech-monopolies-is-all-thanks-to-ronald-reagan-and-robert-bork/

* Sex and Politics with Dan Savage (use coupon code "Doctorow" for a free month):
https://index.supportingcast.fm/subscription/type/podcast#c3f7380e-441b-11ed-8f80-1f06b0646875

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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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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/2022/10/27/economism/

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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 "How to Fix Cars By Breaking 'Felony Contempt of Business Model'"

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