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Inside: An hour of interwar Halloween music; and more!
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I'm at the #Ottawa @Writersfest tonight (10/24), presenting with @rgibli and @rushkoff
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An hour of interwar Halloween music: Spooky season listening from Centuries of Sound.
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Hey look at this
* @carlmalamud's must-watch acceptance speech for the Internet Archive Hero Award archive.org/details/intern… 4/
#20yrsago Curious Yellow: Internet-killing superworm web.archive.org/web/2002100414…
#15yrsago Story written using only Cat in the Hat words web.archive.org/web/2007102703…
#15yrsago Haunted Mansion/Bela Lugosi’s Dead mashup: Haunted Bela web.archive.org/web/2007102505… 5/
#15yrsago Book price-fixing: good, bad, or just weird? radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/…
#15yrsago StormWorm botnet lashes out at security researchers web.archive.org/web/2007102601… 6/
#10yrsago Entropy versus warranty: how companies figure out how breakable their products are wired.com/2012/10/ff-why…
#10yrsago Hey! There’s a new Hilda book out! Hey! memex.craphound.com/2012/10/24/hey… 7/
#10yrsago UK record industry demands expansion of the Great Firewall of Britain bbc.com/news/technolog…
#10yrsago @nealstephenson talks REAMDE with lawyers, security experts 8/
#10yrsago Accidental CC from wedding planner to couple reveals thriving English class snobbery bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
#5yrsago A quarter of US military “sees white nationalism” in the ranks militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-… 9/
#5yrsago Zoning and the housing crisis: at Manhattan densities, San Francisco could house 100 million people buildzoom.com/blog/paying-fo…
#5yrsago Hackers can force airbags to deploy cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvenam… 10/
#5yrsago John @hodgman’s Vacationland: a masterpiece of humor that means something memex.craphound.com/2017/10/24/joh…
#1yrago Cyber-mercenaries helped Saudis hack an NYT reporter: Citizen Lab caught the NSO Group in a(nother) war crime pluralistic.net/2021/10/24/bre… 11/
Yesterday's threads: The Persuaders (how minds really change); and more!
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from @BookSoup:
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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 @DarkDel:
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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:
* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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* Launch for xychelsea's "Readme.txt: A Memoir" (@Bookshop_Org), 10/26:
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/registration
* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepo…
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-ev…
* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
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Recent appearances:
* Why Patients Should Hack Med Tech (@defcon 30)
* Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (@lithub)
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* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use code "Doctorow" for a free month):
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Happy #SpookySeason! 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 @mcrockefeller.
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My latest Medium column is "How to Fix Cars By Breaking 'Felony Contempt of Business Model'"
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