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Inside: Finance caused the fall of Rome; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/07/08/jub…

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I'm heading off for family vacation until July 26 (though I may pop up between now and then with a surprise post that's in suspension pending approval). Have a great couple weeks! 2/

On July 24, I'm giving a remote keynote for @2600 Magazine's New @HOPEconf in #NYC:

hope.net

Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! 3/

I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

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Finance caused the fall of Rome: A politics of protecting contracts and property is a civilizational suicide pact.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1545452797151387650

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Hey look at this

* El Libro De La Familia archive.org/details/ellibr…

* "Bedfellows," a new album from @AramDunia youtube.com/playlist?list=…

* "Eat the Poor," a @RubenBolling collection gocomics.typepad.com/tomthedancingb… 6/

#20yrsago RIP, Gene Kan memex.craphound.com/2002/07/08/rip…

#15yrsago William Gibson explains why science fiction is about the present web.archive.org/web/2007070901…

#10yrsago Peter “@Brokep” Sunde, railroaded into Swedish prison by Big Content falkvinge.net/2012/07/06/aft… 7/

#10yrsago Handmade Japanese steampunk watches web.archive.org/web/2007071111…

#10yrsago DRM guru claims new BluRay won’t be cracked for 10 years avsforum.com/threads/bd-unb…

#5yrsago Corbyn’s Labour surges to an 8-point lead over the Tories standard.co.uk/news/politics/… 8/

#5yrsago GOP lawmakers snap up surging health insurance stocks as they gut Obamacare theintercept.com/2017/07/06/rep…

#1yrago Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuy…

#1yrago Indonesia's gig work tech resistance pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuy… 9/

Yesterday's threads: Countervailing power; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1545088763147292676

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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… 11/

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:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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."

craphound.com/shop/ 13/

Upcoming appearances:

* A New @HOPEconf (NYC), Jul 24
hope.net

* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
defcon.org/html/defcon-30… 14/

Recent appearances:

* @CMAgovUK Data, Technology and Analytics Conference:


* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event… 15/

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.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 16/

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

My latest @Medium column is "Shovel-Ready: A half-to-three-quarters-baked idea to fix capitalism"

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