Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: American healthcare did a fuckery; The White House has a plan for Big Tech; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/10/big…
#Pluralistic 1/
#Toronto! #NewYork! #SanFrancisco! I'm heading your way with my next book, "Chokepoint Capitalism"!
9/16: Toronto - @typebooks/Junction 7PM
9/25: SF
sfpl.org/events/2022/09…
9/27: LA
booksoup.com/event/cory-doc…
More (#DC, #Ottawa, #Boston, #London, #Miami, more!) coming soon! 2/
I'm Kickstarting a DRM-free audiobook of Chokepoint Capitalism, the book @rgibli and I wrote about how tech- and entertainment monopolies rip off artists, and how to unrig those terrible labor markets:
kickstarter.com/projects/docto…
("This book really gets it" - @StephenFry) 3/
American healthcare did a fuckery: A trillion prices can't be wrong.
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The White House has a plan for Big Tech: Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Biden all agree.
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Hey look at this
* Trailer for @greatdismal's "The Peripheral" (h/t @BoingBoing)
* Posh British bank tells its posh customers to turn off phone updates boingboing.net/2022/09/10/pos…
* The Fall of a Cheerleading Giant mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-an… 6/
#20yrsago Buzz Aldrin punches out lunar conspiracist web.archive.org/web/2002091210…
#5yrsago Tesla’s demon-haunted cars in Irma’s path get a temporary battery-life boost memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/tes… 7/
Yesterday's threads: Guide to a ripoff-free funeral; 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… 9/
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… 10/
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."
craphound.com/shop/ 11/
Upcoming appearances:
* Canadians Connected (Ottawa), 9/15
member.cira.ca/Events/Canadia…
* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @TypeBooks Junction (Toronto), 9/19, 7PM
* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), 9/21-24
live.unfinished.com 12/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Chokepoint Capitalism, SFPL, 9/25
sfpl.org/events/2022/09…
* Chokepoint Capitalism, @BookSoup (LA), 9/27
booksoup.com/event/cory-doc…
* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/s… 13/
Recent appearances:
* Launch for @Motherboard's Terraform antho
vice.com/en/article/3ad…
* Crypto and the Left (@TBSocialist)
theblockchainsocialist.com/crypto-and-the…
* The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (@curaffairs) patreon.com/posts/cory-doc… 14/
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… 15/
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My latest Medium column is "Parenting and Phones, an Empowering Approach"
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.
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Today's top sources: Ken Snider (@orenwolf), Zane Selvans (@ZaneSelvans), @Slashdot (slashdot.org). 20/
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