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Inside: Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures; The horrifying tale of a blockchain-based virtual sweatshop; 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/

Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures: On the "attack philanthropy" of Barre Seid.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1567896757681459200

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The horrifying tale of a blockchain-based virtual sweatshop: "Anda's Game" was a warning, not a suggestion.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1567914107252228096

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Hey look at this

* Disney’s ‘Remembering’ deadline.com/2022/09/disney…

* The Humiliating History of the TSA theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa… (h/t Fipi Lele)

* The democratic theory of “A Half-Built Garden” crookedtimber.org/2022/09/07/the… 5/

#10yrsago Tim Berners-Lee blasts UK government’s Internet spying plan telegraph.co.uk/technology/int…

#10yrsago Copyfraud: making the case for actual copyright enforcement memex.craphound.com/2012/09/07/cop… 6/

#5yrsago Superstorms are tearing up America’s crumbling, neglected infrastructure jacobin.com/2017/09/infras…

#5yrsago Four years later, we learn why Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan Chase settled US fraud allegations for $13B vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/j… 7/

#5yrsago Florida Sheriff warns storm victims to expect warrant checks at hurricane shelters nytimes.com/2017/09/06/us/…

#5yrsago A pacifist minister reflects on the antifa who protected protesters from Charlottesville’s armed Nazis radicaldiscipleship.net/2017/08/23/my-… 8/

#5yrsago Voice assistants can be hacked by commanding them with inaudible ultrasonic speech 9/

Yesterday's threads: How Audible steals from creators (an Audible exclusive); and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1567565831046893568

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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:

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

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