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Tomorrow (Oct 4), I'm appearing remotely in a Harvard Berkman Klein Center seminar about "Chokepoint Capitalism," the book Rebecca Giblin and I just published about monopoly and unfairness in creative labor markets.

https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/chokepoint-capitalism-how-beat-big-tech-and-big-content-get-artists-paid

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An antitrust murder whodunnit: I accuse Judge Bork with the Powell Memo in the smoke-filled room.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109105960981604691

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Hey look at this

* Disability Inclusion Fund Request for Proposals https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RBPsmB3bP3R8dGuLsmDmZcko0PDW7Hng4g0_4twPVvs/ (h/t Liz Henry)

* RIP, Chandler Davis: political prisoner, sf writer, mathematician https://caseazatmiftakhov.org/2022/09/28/chandler-davis-in-memoriam/ (h/t Gregory Cherlin)

* The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2022.2100851 (h/t Andrew Iliadis)

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#20yrsago Why is it so hard to get a cab in San Francisco? https://web.archive.org/web/20021003045806/http://www.bradnewsham.com/articles/why_so_hard.shtml

#20yrsago Notes from OSXCon’s DRM and Digital Hub panel https://web.archive.org/web/20021018232143/http://blog.glennf.com/gmblog/archives/00000254.htm

#20yrsago Sidekick, your mobile blogging pal https://web.archive.org/web/20021017125512/http://www.hiptop.com/

#15yrsago RIAA: Our anti-fan lawsuits are costing us millions https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/10/music-industry-exec-p2p-litigation-is-a-money-pit/

#15yrsago Can “girl games” transcend shopping, fashion and babies? https://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2007/10/ubisofts-imagin.html

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#15yrsago Charlie Stross’s Halting State: Heist novel about an MMORPG https://memex.craphound.com/2007/10/02/charlie-strosss-halting-state-heist-novel-about-an-mmorpg/

#15yrsago The Future of Ignoring Things https://web.archive.org/web/20071011000250/https://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=479&doc_id=134703&

#10yrsago Congress: The DHS’s “fusion centers” full of bad intelligence, lies, and imaginary buildings https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/us/inquiry-cites-flaws-in-regional-counterterrorism-offices.html?_r=0

#10yrsago A Wrinkle in Time, worthy graphic novel adaptation https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/03/a-wrinkle-in-time-worthy-graphic-novel-adaptation/

#10yrsago Costumes that integrate wheelchairs https://www.buzzfeed.com/babymantis/20-creative-wheelchair-costume-ideas-for-halloween-1opu

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#10yrsago Japan competes with Panama to pass the world’s worst copyright law https://torrentfreak.com/anti-downloading-law-hits-japan-up-to-2-years-in-prison-from-today-121001/

#10yrsago The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/02/the-girl-who-fell-beneath-fairyland-and-led-the-revels-there/

#5yrsago The same Equifax exec who greenlit suspicious stock-sales was also in charge of cybersecurity https://consumerist.com/2017/10/02/the-equifax-executive-who-oversaw-security-also-approved-last-minute-stock-sales/

#5yrsago Thanks to the EU, the UK’s privacy law may solve the mystery of Facebook and the last US election https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/01/cambridge-analytica-big-data-facebook-trump-voters

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#5yrsago Latest Fed figures show widening wealth inequality, and it’s much worse if you’re not white https://jacobin.com/2017/10/wealth-inequality-united-states-federal-reserve

#5yrsago Spanish tech activists publish a “how-to guide for preserving fundamental rights on the Internet” https://xnet-x.net/en/how-to-guide-for-preserving-fundamental-rights-internet/

#5yrsago Tim O’Reilly explains how self-driving cars will bankrupt Uber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnES-PPWVbY

#5yrsago Taser says its weapons don’t kill people, so Reuters built a massive database of 1000+ Taser deaths https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-taser/

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#5yrsago The London Underground thinks it can sell travelers’ attention and wifi data for £322m https://news.sky.com/story/tfl-may-make-322m-by-selling-on-data-from-passengers-mobiles-via-tube-wifi-11056118

#5yrsago Yahoo revises number of hacked accounts from 500,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/yahoo-says-all-3-billion-accounts-were-compromised-in-2013-hack/

#5yrsago Trump’s ICE snitch-line is full of people secretly trying to deport their in-laws https://splinternews.com/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-the-president-asks-peop-1819077393

#5yrsago Bluetooth sex toys are trivial to compromise just by walking around neighborhoods https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/screwdriving-many-bluetooth-sex-toys-leave-users-vulnerable/

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#5yrsago /r/TheDonald on the Vegas shooting, before and after they learned it was a rich old white man https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe/comments/73x7qv/the_donald_community_before_and_after_learning/

#5yrsago Equifax: we missed 2.5 million people when we counted the size of our breach https://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-says-millions-more-customers-affected-in-cyberattack-than-previously-reported-2017-10-02

#5yrsago Trump’s pick for EPA pollution czar says kids are less sensitive to pollution than adults https://theintercept.com/2017/10/03/epa-nominee-michael-dourson-toxic-chemicals/

#5yrsago Either we don’t live in a simulation, or computing works differently outside the Matrix https://web.archive.org/web/20171002160013/https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation

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#5yrsago San Juan mayor barred from speaking on Trump’s Puerto Rico relief conference call https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/san-juan-mayor-donald-trump-tweet-white-house-hurricane-maria-emergency-relief-puerto-rico-carmen-yulin-cruz-a7979856.html

#5yrsago Supreme Court will rule on whether immigrants have constitutional rights https://abovethelaw.com/2017/10/does-the-constitution-apply-to-immigrants-supreme-court-will-start-to-sort-that-out/

#5yrsago William Gibson’s Archangel: a graphic story of the unfolding jackpot apocalypse https://memex.craphound.com/2017/10/03/william-gibsons-archangel-a-graphic-story-of-the-unfolding-jackpot-apocalypse/

#1yrago How the IMF loan-sharks the global south https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/02/debt-trap/#global-arm-breakers

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Saturday's threads: How Palantir will steal the NHS; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109094161547246915

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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:

* 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

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

* 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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* 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:

* Eastern Blocks (This Week In Tech)
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/895

* Triangulation: Chokepoint Capitalism
https://twit.tv/shows/twit-events/episodes/13

* Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (This Machine Kills)
https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/194-cultural-capture-by-chokepoint-capitalism-ft-rebecca-giblin-cory-doctorow

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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/2022/10/03/powell-memo/

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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 "The True Genius of Tech Leaders"

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-true-genius-of-tech-leaders-46d6e3439989

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