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Next Monday (Oct 17), I'll be presenting remotely to CREATe's Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures conference in Glasgow:

https://www.create.ac.uk/copyright-evidence-synthesis-and-futures/

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Medieval Times invents a modern union-busting tactic: Trademark, like all "IP," is a tool to control critics, customers and competitors.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109167002481652195

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Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats: Even the best Democratic candidate is no match for the worst Republican when wealthy "Democratic" donors meddle.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109167368698947605

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Hey look at this

* Centuries of Sound: 1943 https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/10/06/1943/

* End-to-End Encryption and Messaging Interoperability https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/messaging-e2e/

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#15yrsago Irish bureaucrats raided personal info database for blackmail, burglary, and curiosity https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/civil-servant-mole-leaked-intelligence-to-criminal-26324997.html

#10yrsago Accused of infringement? AT&;T will take away YouTube and Facebook and send you to Copyright Reeducation Gulag https://torrentfreak.com/att-starts-six-strikes-anti-piracy-plan-next-month-will-block-websites-121012/

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Yesterday's threads: US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109161003182423428

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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 jDelicacies:

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:

* 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

* 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/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

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Recent appearances:

* 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

* 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

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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/2022/10/14/competitors-critics-customers/

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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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