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My publisher Tor Books and Goodreads are having a drawing for a giveaway of advance hardcopies of my next novel, "Red Team Blues," a Silicon Valley forensic accounting thriller about a cryptocurrency heist. If you're in the US or Canada, enter here to win a copy:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/353941-red-team-blues

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Citizens United and the FTX meltdown: The Keating Five were amateurs.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109393593793330506

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Hey look at this

* Displaying the Dead https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/musee-dupuytren-catalogue

* UK Regulators Want Apple to Open its App Store Doors to Cloud Gaming https://gizmodo.com/apple-google-uk-investigation-cma-xbox-cloud-gaming-ios-1849814144

* EFF 2021 annual report https://annualreport.eff.org/

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#10yrsago Hacker’s ad for a Yahoo email-stealing exploit, up for sale at $700 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/yahoo-email-stealing-exploit-fetches-700/

#10yrsago Saudi Arabian women tracked at the border with system that SMSes their husbands when they leave the country https://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012%2F11%2F22%2F251255

#10yrsago Staffers for millionaire/wrestling magnate/failed GOP Senate candidate say they were stiffed, got bad checks and condoms: “you’re screwed” https://web.archive.org/web/20121127171815/http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2012/11/21/checks-issued-by-mcmahon-campaign-reportedly-bounce/

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#5yrsago Blame the US Retail Apocalypse on hedge funds and financialization, not Amazon and Walmart https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-retail-debt/

#5yrsago Women are fleeing Donald Trump’s Republican party in droves, and the GOP has no idea what to do about it https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/why-republican-women-arent-galvanized-by-the-trump-era/546533/

#1yrago The definitive answers to Disney's pernicious queueing debates https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/23/jump-in-the-line/#stay-in-your-lane

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Yesterday's threads: Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109388549570119041

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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:

* Conversation with Tim Wu, Informed/Knight Foundation (Miami), Nov 30:
https://informed22.interkinnect.com/

* Library Learning Experience/American Library Association (New Orleans), Jan 27-30
https://www.2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

* Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum (Canberra), Feb 17:
https://digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doctorow-giblin-first-speaker-announcement-ada-forum-2023/

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), Mar 2:
https://www.brusselsconference.com/registration

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Recent appearances:

* New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/chokepoint-capitalism

* Business Without Bullshit
https://open.spotify.com/episode/04GWeryHzC1uWgZrmEjSDH?si=36c048e0fc264437&nd=1

* Team Human interview
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-cory-doctorow

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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/2022/11/23/incentives-matter/

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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 "Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop: Ticketmaster and Ideas Lying Around"

https://doctorow.medium.com/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-will-eventually-stop-110ba9711133

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