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Inside: The Big Four accounting firms are one (more) scandal away from collapse; and more!

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Tomorrow (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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The Big Four accounting firms are one (more) scandal away from collapse: Mutually assured destruction at the heart of the economy.

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Hey look at this

* The Consequences of Radical Patent-Regime Change papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

* Jansen's Linkage youtube.com/shorts/PBuOBGf… (h/t Hackaday)

* The Spectacular Life of Octavia Butler vulture.com/article/octavi… (h/t @nelson) 5/

#15yrsago Science Fiction Writers of America reinstates E-Piracy Committee — new name, same chairman memex.craphound.com/2007/11/29/sci…

#15yrsago Universal Music CEO’s fears illustrated in funny webcomic web.archive.org/web/2007113002… 6/

#10yrsago America’s “Six Strike” copyright punishment system on hold until 2013 torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-an…

#10yrsago Big Tobacco will have to run a national advertising campaign apologizing for lying about health risks from smoking web.archive.org/web/2013103115… 7/

#10yrsago Bill O’Reilly-watching climate-change-denier is moved to tears by polar melting documentary

#10yrsago Grey Album remastered by golden-eared engineer forbes.com/sites/leorgali… 8/

#5yrsago Net Neutrality is just for starters: municipal networks are the path to paradise wired.com/story/net-neut…

#5yrsago Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren introduce a bill to provide $146B in aid to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands theintercept.com/2017/11/28/ber… 9/

#5yrsago Incentives matter: America’s for-profit medical industry thrives on massive wastage, unnecessary procedures, overbilling and overtreating propublica.org/article/a-hosp… 10/

#5yrsago US Army doxes itself, reveals $100 million NSA spy program that got flushed before it was ever used ibtimes.com/army-spent-100…

#5yrsago Student debt: more people, paying more money, and mounting year on year jacobin.com/2017/11/studen… 11/

#5yrsago Mass incarceration and disenfranchisement of brown people was the key to GOP control in Alabama, but thanks to criminal justice reform, black people can vote against child-molester Roy Moore salon.com/2017/11/29/roy… 12/

#5yrsago Morgan Stanley, with a long rapsheet for corporate crimes, says Jeremy Corbyn holding them to account would hurt them worse than the worst Brexit theguardian.com/politics/2017/…"> 13/

#5yrsago Comcast flushed its 3 year old net neutrality promise down the memory hole the instant the FCC announced its plan to allow network discrimination arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 14/

#1yrago The once and future mass-resignation and what it means for working people pluralistic.net/2021/11/29/ord… 15/

Yesterday's threads: How monopoly enshittified Amazon; 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:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 18/

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… 20/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 21/

Recent appearances:

* @NewBooksNetwork
newbooksnetwork.com/chokepoint-cap…

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

* @teamhumanshow interview
teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-c… 22/

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My latest @Medium column is "Poe vs. Property: A detective story of shifting rationalizations"

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Today's top sources: @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 28/