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Inside: Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/27/cro…

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The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!

us.macmillan.com/books/97812507…

Signed copies:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:

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Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER: Poudre Valley Hospital is a clip-joint. 3/

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1453413967519440898

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#20yrsago When the Yippies stormed Disneyland web.archive.org/web/2001030511…

#20yrsago RIAA claims it never compared downloading to terrorism, demands apology web.archive.org/web/2001110203…

#15yrsago Going Under: moving kids’ novel memex.craphound.com/2006/10/26/goi… 5/

#10yrsago Machine Man: a discomfiting novel about the antihuman side of transhumanism memex.craphound.com/2011/10/26/mac…

#10yrsago Canadian Tory MP: Don’t worry about violating our stupid new copyright law, because we probably won’t catch you if you do web.archive.org/web/2011102915… 6/

#5yrsago Everfair: a diverse, ambitious steampunk novel of Fabian socialists and American Black Zionists in Belgian Congo memex.craphound.com/2016/10/26/eve…

#5yrsago When the FCC asked about unlocking set-top boxes, the Copyright Office ran to the MPAA eff.org/deeplinks/2016… 7/

#5yrsago AT&T developed a “product” for spying on all its customers and made millions selling it to warrantless cops thedailybeast.com/atandt-is-spyi…

#1yrago Chile restores democratic rule pluralistic.net/2020/10/26/viv…

#1yrago Phone surveillance, made in Canada pluralistic.net/2020/10/26/viv… 8/

#1yrago Surveillance startup protected sexual harassers pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea… 9/

Yesterday's threads: Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1453033235978588174

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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…

One-month, $30 audiobook bundle with all three Little Brother books:

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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:

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Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 12/

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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Lessons from the First Internet Ages (@KnightFdn), Nov 2-3
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* Keynote for @SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
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* Anti-Dystopian Congress (@GoetheInstitut), Nov 10-12
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Recent appearances:

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* Making Money (@DIDiscworld)
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* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress
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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.

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com. 18/

My latest @Medium column is "The Traitorous Eight and the Battle of Germanium Valley," How California's ban on non-competes saved the tech industry from eugenics.

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