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Inside: How monopoly enshittified Amazon; and more!

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This Weds (Nov 30), @superwuster and I are appearing in conversation to discuss monopoly and creative labor markets at the @knightfdn's #Informed22 conference in #Miami:

informed22.interkinnect.com 2/

My publisher @torbooks and @goodreads are drawing for a giveaway of advance copies of my next novel, "Red Team Blues," a Silicon Valley forensic accounting thriller about a cryptocurrency heist - If you're in the US or Canada, enter here to win a copy:

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How monopoly enshittified Amazon: Chokepoint Capitalism ruins everything.

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Hey look at this

* When Bosses Were Terrorists jacobin.com/2022/11/bosses…

* Who will control the computerised machines b2fxxx.blogspot.com/2022/11/who-wi…

* ooh.directory ooh.directory 5/

#20yrsago @dangillmor: The dotcom bubble was a Big Con web.archive.org/web/2002121515…

#20yrsago GW Bush parodies can't air on UK TV without his permission nytimes.com/2002/11/28/wor…

#20yrsago @EdFelten’s radical technology agenda web.archive.org/web/2002112714… 6/

#20yrsago Harry Potter/Luke Skywalker/Frodo Baggins craphound.com/images/frodoha…

#20yrsago What is Moblogging? links.net/share/write/th…

#20yrsago Imagineeringland: the busiest place on Earth wired.com/2002/12/rebuil…

#20yrsago Me (13) with @cdelint, 1984 craphound.com/images/de_Lint… 7/

#15yrsago French law proposal will force ISPs to spy on users and terminate downloaders without trial arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#15yrsago DHS to firefighters: snoop on emergency victims for evidence of terrorism web.archive.org/web/2007112714… 8/

#15yrsago How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook web.archive.org/web/2007112803…

#15yrsago Facebook privacy meltdown: company removed opt-out prior to launch web.archive.org/web/2008120215… 9/

#15yrsago Voice of the London Underground canned for blogging funny fake announcement audio metafilter.com/66883/The-Voic…

#15yrsago Mr Splashy Pants in the lead for Greenpeace whale-naming competition web.archive.org/web/2007112116… 10/

#15yrsago Universal Music CEO: Record industry can’t tell when geeks are lying to us about technology vulture.com/2007/11/univer…

#15yrsago Time’s Joe Klein shoves his foot in his gob on NSA wiretapping wired.com/2007/11/time-c… 11/

#15yrsago Canada’s coming DMCA will be the worst copyright yet memex.craphound.com/2007/11/27/can…

#15yrsago Google says spammers are giving up wired.com/2007/11/spamme…

#15yrsago BBC’s iPlayer sold us out — and then failed theguardian.com/technology/200… 12/

#10yrsago In Finland, piracy fines are orders of magnitude higher than fines for rape, torture and murder web.archive.org/web/2012080100…

#10yrsago Letter from Alabama AG to KKK Grand Wizard: “Kiss my ass” lettersofnote.com/2012/11/26/kis… 13/

#10yrsago Hotel break-ins blamed on flaw in keycard system forbes.com/sites/andygree…

#10yrsago Collaborative critical study of one-line BASIC program written for the Commodore 64 10print.org

#10yrsago Toronto mayor Rob Ford is out cbc.ca/news/canada/to… 14/

#10yrsago Internet of the Dead: the net’s collision course with death locusmag.com/2012/11/cory-d…

#10yrsago Coding Freedom: an anthropologist understands hacker culture memex.craphound.com/2012/11/25/cod… 15/

#10yrsago What Disneyland’s “awkward transitions” teach us about signaling changes with physical cues passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-aw…

#5yrsago Once you have a student’s name, birthday and SSN, the US Department of Education will give you EVERYTHING else krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/namedo… 16/

#5yrsago Spam was nearly dead, then it became an essential tool for crime and came roaring back theoutline.com/post/2498/spam… 17/

#5yrago Roy Moore is still in the running because “values voters” would support Satan himself if he was anti-abortion and homophobic fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-v… 18/

#5yrsago Citing Trump, Philippines dictator declares himself to be a “fascist” and vows to persecute peaceful left-wing opposition groups telesurenglish.net/analysis/-Dute…

#5yrsago Jeremy Corbyn tears into the Tories over incoherent Brexit bumbling theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 19/

#5yrsago Researchers craft Android app that reveals menagerie of hidden spyware; legally barred from doing the same with iOS theintercept.com/2017/11/24/sta…

#5yrsago Reverse-engineering a connected Furby toy, revealing its disturbing security defects web.archive.org/web/2017112413… 20/

#5yrsago Rightscorp finished Sept 2017 with $3,147 in the bank, warns investors it will likely have to shut down without more cash torrentfreak.com/rightscorp-rev… 21/

#5yrsago Arrogant overreach: Ajit Pai’s plan to totally destroy net neutrality may doom him in court nytimes.com/2017/11/22/opi…"> 22/

#5yrsago A generation after American “libertarians” helped with mass disappearances, torture and murder of left-wing activists, Frente Amplio surge in Chilean elections bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 23/

#5yrsago Investigators claim that Oxbridge and other top UK universities are operating a massive, illegal surveillance dragnet aimed at students/alumni and their friends and families qz.com/1133808/univer… 24/

#5yrsago For the next year, TV, newspapers, and the web will run massive ads from tobacco companies admitting that their products kill people, that they were engineered to be addictive, and that they covered this up abc.net.au/news/2017-11-2… 25/

#5yrsago Melt a Nazi with the Major Toht candle web.archive.org/web/2017120403…

#5yrsago One of the net’s most important freedom canaries died the day the W3C greenlit web-wide DRM; what can we learn from the fight? eff.org/deeplinks/2017… 26/

#5yrsago Trump appointed a loan-shark fixer as an assistant Attorney General, who then wrote a controversial memo justifying the neutering of the consumer finance watchdog theintercept.com/2017/11/27/whi… 27/

#5yrsago Comcast spams social media with Net Neutrality promises, hopes you won’t notice that they used to promise a LOT more arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 28/

#5yrsago Religious fanatics go to the Supreme Court for the First Amendment right to trick women into bearing unwanted children theintercept.com/2017/11/27/the… 29/

#5yrsago How an influential economics paper used imaginary environmental overregulation to spur low-density luxury housing dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

#5yrsago Wells Fargo execs sealed their bonuses by gouging the bank’s business customers thehill.com/policy/finance… 30/

#1yrago The Cuban vaccines pluralistic.net/2021/11/28/som…

#1yrago UK ICO: surveillance advertising is dead pluralistic.net/2021/11/26/ico…

#1yrago McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge pluralistic.net/2021/11/25/str… 31/

#1yrago Unions are finally fighting two-tier contracts pluralistic.net/2021/11/25/str…

#1yrago The Tesla-financial complex: When your financial instruments are better than your cars pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-…

#1yrago Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-… 32/

Friday's threads: Citizens United and the FTX meltdown; 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:

* Conversation with @superwuster, #Informed22/@knightfdn (Miami), 11/30:
informed22.interkinnect.com

* Chokepoint Capitalism: A Conversation/@Northeastern/@BurnesCenter/@NU_CAMD (Boston/webcast), 12/5
northeastern.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 37/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (NOLA), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc…

* Antitrust, Regulation and PolEconomy (Brussels), Mar 2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 38/

Recent appearances:

* @NewBooksNetwork
newbooksnetwork.com/chokepoint-cap…

* @bizwithoutbs
open.spotify.com/episode/04GWer…

* @teamhumanshow interview
teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-c… 39/

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