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Inside: How Audible steals from creators (an Audible exclusive); and more!

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

kickstarter.com/projects/docto…

("This book really gets it" - @stephenfry) 2/

How Audible steals from creators (an Audible exclusive): The only part of "Chokepoint Capitalism" available on Audible.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1567561762819522562

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Hey look at this

* SF Sewer Map sfgis-portal.sfgov.org/arcgis/apps/we… (h/t @nelson)

* Americans experience false social reality, underestimate climate policy support by half nature.com/articles/s4146…

* After self-hosting email for 23 years I gave up cfenollosa.com/blog/after-sel… (h/t @hackaday) 4/

#10yrsago @cstross and me at Makerbot, talking Rapture of the Nerds

#10yrsago Radio circuit board laid out like the London tube map designboom.com/technology/yur… 5/

#10yrsago Wells Fargo mistakenly forecloses on the wrong house, destroys elderly couple’s entire lifetime’s worth of possessions cbsnews.com/losangeles/new… 6/

#5yrsago Judge tosses out Hulk Hogan lawyer’s suit against Techdirt over that guy who claimed he invented email techdirt.com/articles/20170…

#5yrsago Florida management company bans tenants from using storm shutters as Hurricane Irma approaches wptv.com/news/region-c-… 7/

#5yrsago Ugandan ethics chief boasts of his new magic South Korean pornography filter and its efficacy against “homos” techdirt.com/2017/09/08/uga…

#5yrsago Broward County GOP secretary split a female classmate’s skull with over 40 claw-hammer blows miamiherald.com/entertainment/… 8/

#5yrsago Case study of LAPD and Palantir’s predictive policing tool: same corruption; new, empirical respectability journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… 9/

#5yrsago In an engineering paper, @bunniestudios and Ed @Snowden describe a malware-resistant hardware Iphone privacy overlay tjoe.org/pub/direct-rad… 10/

#5yrsago Epipen: Mylan and Pfizer let people die while jacking up prices on defective devices, says FDA arstechnica.com/science/2017/0…

#5yrsago Equifax waited 5 weeks to admit it had doxed 44% of America, did nothing to help us while its execs sold stock arstechnica.com/information-te… 11/

#5yrsago Brexit: UK Tories propose changing thousands of laws in secret, without Parliamentary oversight independent.co.uk/voices/great-r… 12/

August 24th's threads: Trump gave Moderna all the patent-waivers it needed to make a vaccine; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1562444832744042498

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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… 14/

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… 15/

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/ 16/

Upcoming appearances:

* Canadians Connected (Ottawa), 9/15
member.cira.ca/Events/Canadia…

* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), 9/21-24
live.unfinished.com

* Chokepoint Capitalism, @BookSoup (LA), 9/27
booksoup.com/event/cory-doc…

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:

* Crypto and the Left (@TBSocialist)
theblockchainsocialist.com/crypto-and-the…

* 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… 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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My latest Medium column is "Parenting and Phones, an Empowering Approach"

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