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Inside: Kickstarting the "Chokepoint Capitalism" audiobook; and more!

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Tomorrow (Aug 18), I'll be at the launch for @Vice @Motherboard's new "Terraform" sf anthology in Venice, CA:

eventbrite.com/e/terraform-bo… 2/

Kickstarting the "Chokepoint Capitalism" audiobook: We wrote a book that Amazon won't sell.

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Hey look at this

* Closing Down the Billionaire Factory mattstoller.substack.com/p/closing-down… 4/

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#10yrsago Major American firms pay more in CEO compensation than they do in fed tax csmonitor.com/Business/Lates…

#10yrsago Batman Earth One: rebooting the bat memex.craphound.com/2012/08/17/bat… 5/

#5yrsago Steve Bannon calls left-wing reporter out of the blue and unloads on alt-right and GOP prospect.org/power/steve-ba…

#5yrsago Homeopathic infant teething products contain dangerous levels of deadly nightshade arstechnica.com/science/2017/0… 6/

#5yrsago Texas Republicans will now require women to carry “rape insurance” if they need abortions vice.com/en/article/paa…

#5yrsago Charlottesville white supremacist strips off uniform and insists it’s just for lulz 7/

#1yrago Big Oil caught lying about methane pluralistic.net/2021/08/17/kin…

#1yrago Sandman Slim's final adventure: King Bullet brings in @Richard_Kadrey's masterpiece for a hell of a landing pluralistic.net/2021/08/17/kin… 8/

Yesterday's threads: How Democrats could win more elections; and more!

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 10/

My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 11/

My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Launch for @Motherboard's Terraform anthology, @Vice offices (Los Angeles), Aug 18
eventbrite.com/e/terraform-bo…

* Radical Interoperability: An Internet Disassembly Manual, Aug 29 15h (@BurningMan Center Camp) 13/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism: a Better Deal for Creative Labor, Aug 30, 13h (@BurningMan @PalenqueNorte, 915 and E)

* Interview with @BunnieStudios on the Precursor and Trusting Trust, Aug 31, 12h (@BurningMan Liminal Labs, 945 and Rod's) 14/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Canadians Connected (Ottawa), Sept 15
member.cira.ca/Events/Canadia…

* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), Sept 21-24
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Recent appearances:

* DRM Secretly Polices You (@dtnsshow)
dailytechnewsshow.com/2022/07/29/drm…

* Bricking Tractors (Inside Agri-Turf)
inside-agriturf.captivate.fm/episode/bricki…

* Blockchain, Bitcoin & Selling The Brooklyn Bridge (@MMTPodcast):
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/135-cory-docto… 16/

My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 17/

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