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Inside: Raising money for Locus Magazine; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/06/goo…

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It's the last day for @EFF Power Up Your Donation Week!Online donations to EFF get an automatic 2X match. I'm a donor!

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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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Raising money for Locus Magazine: Bid on naming rights for a character in one of my upcoming novels.

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Hey look at this

* New SI prefixes: ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto, for 1027, 1030, 10-27, 10-30 npl.co.uk/si-prefix (h/t @LeahNeukirchen)

* What if failure is the plan? zephoria.org/thoughts/archi…

* AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent vice.com/en/article/wxn… 5/

#20yrsago Taking pictures of hotels is terrorism web.archive.org/web/2003050100…

#15yrsago Canada’s DMCA won’t get any consumer rights added to it for a decade michaelgeist.ca/2007/12/prenti… 6/

#10yrsago Leaked: ITU’s secret Internet surveillance standard discussion draft craphound.com/T09-WTSA.12-C-… 7/

#10yrsago Public interest groups fly to Auckland, NZ to meet with TPP negotiators, are only allowed in the building to give a 15-minute joint presentation eff.org/deeplinks/2012… 8/

#5yrsago Hanging out with Bernie Sanders: it turns out that standing FOR something is a lot more politically important than merely standing AGAINST Trump vice.com/en/article/wjz… 9/

#5yrsago A guy tricked Tripadvisor into making his garden shed the top-rated restaurant in London vice.com/en/article/434…

#5yrsago To build the future, we must escape the present, or, “The bullet hole misconception” dgsiegel.net/talks/the-bull… 10/

#5yrsago Israeli firm Cyberbit illegally spied on behalf of Ethiopia’s despots, then stored all their stolen data on an unencrypted, world-readable website citizenlab.ca/2017/12/champi… 11/

#5yrsago (Virtually) No one should ever own an Echo or any other “voice assistant” product gizmodo.com/dont-buy-anyon… 12/

#5yrsago Bell is leading the push to end Canadian Net Neutrality with a secret, extrajudicial Star Chamber that will decide what Canadians can and can’t see canadaland.com/bell-pushing-e… 13/

Yesterday's threads: Monopoly's event horizon; 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:

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

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 18/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 19/

Recent appearances:

* @bubtroubpodcast (Part 1)
bubbletroublepodcast.com/chokepoint-cap…

* @BridgeTales (with @seananmcguire)
talesfromthebridge.buzzsprout.com/1795352/117887…

* @if_this_goes_on
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