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Inside: The Business Roundtable's climate plan was killed by its arch-rival, the Business Roundtable; and more!

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I'm Kickstarting a DRM-free audiobook edition of Chokepoint Capitalism, the book @rgibli and I wrote about how tech- and entertainment monopolies rip off artists, and how to unrig those terrible creative labor markets:

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The Business Roundtable's climate plan was killed by its arch-rival, the Business Roundtable: If only Apple, Pepsi, Walmart and Google knew someone at the lobbying shop they own.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1560695124987940865

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Hey look at this

* Handmade eyeglass frames made of denim mosevic.com

* Old laptop hard drives allegedly crash when exposed to Janet Jackson music arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/0…

* Comprehensive timeline of email innovation archive.computerhistory.org/resources/acce… (h/t @nelson) 4/

#20yrsago John M. Ford’s 110 Stories about 9-11 nielsenhayden.com/110.html

#20yrsago Why researchers tremble before the DMCA web.archive.org/web/2002090622…

#20yrsago @EdFelten, spam-vigilante martyr web.archive.org/web/2002082109… 5/

#10yrsago European Directories sends legal threat to guy who wants to make it easy to stop receiving phone books 24oranges.nl/2012/08/19/pho… 6/

#10yrsago Boots keeps selling quack remedies intended for babies, even after they are banned from US import over fears of broken glass quackometer.net/blog/2012/08/b…

#10yrsago Man in a coma is “fit for work,” loses disability benefits rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthr… 7/

#10yrsago Pussy Riot, sentenced to two years in a penal colony, release new anti-Putin single theguardian.com/music/2012/aug…

#5yrsago Durham protesters turn themselves in at police station after pulling down Confederate statue washingtonmonthly.com/2017/08/17/res… 8/

#5yrsago Mafia money-launderer listed his profession as “fraudster” with UK companies register standard.co.uk/business/occup…

#1yrago Hench: The madcap rage of life under vigilante rule pluralistic.net/2021/08/19/fai… 9/

#1yrago Machine learning's crumbling foundations: Doing 'data science' with bad data pluralistic.net/2021/08/19/fai… 10/

#1yrago The Sacklers threaten us all with a good time: "Give us total impunity or we won't accede to the total impunity deal" is a hell of an ultimatum pluralistic.net/2021/08/18/let… 11/

Wednesday's threads: Kickstarting the "Chokepoint Capitalism" audiobook; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1559934098558406661

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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… 13/

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… 14/

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/ 15/

Upcoming appearances:

* Radical Interoperability: An Internet Disassembly Manual, Aug 29 15h (@burningman Center Camp)

* Chokepoint Capitalism: a Better Deal for Creative Labor, Aug 30, 13h (@burningman @PalenqueNorte, 915 and E) 16/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd)

* Interview w/ @bunniestudios on the Precursor and Trusting Trust, Aug 31, 12h (@burningman Liminal Labs, 945 and Rod's)

* Canadians Connected (Ottawa), Sep 15
member.cira.ca/Events/Canadia…

* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), Sep 21-24
live.unfinished.com 17/

Recent appearances:

* The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (@curaffairs) patreon.com/posts/cory-doc…

* DRM Secretly Polices You (@dtnsshow)
dailytechnewsshow.com/2022/07/29/drm…

* Bricking Tractors (Inside Agri-Turf)
inside-agriturf.captivate.fm/episode/bricki… 18/

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… 19/

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Today's top sources: Adam Lowenstein (@amlowenstein). 24/