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Inside: Guide to a ripoff-free funeral; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/09/hig…

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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/

Guide to a ripoff-free funeral: Terminal-stage capitalism.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1568262215190433792

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Hey look at this

* An environmentalist gets lunch worksinprogress.substack.com/p/notes-on-pro… (h/t Fipi Lele)

* Honoring Peter Eckersley, Who Made the Internet a Safer Place for Everyone eff.org/deeplinks/2022…

* @Proctorio doesn't stop cheating

https://twitter.com/phillipdawson/status/1567031960857608193

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#10yrsago Increasingly desperate quest to find photos to illustrate news stories about Eurozone crisis spiegel.de/international/…

#5yrsago The Voynich Manuscript appears to be a fairly routine anthology of ancient women’s health advice the-tls.co.uk/articles/voyni… 5/

#5yrsago Australia’s housing bubble is built on a deadly, about-to-burst credit bubble news.com.au/finance/econom…

#5yrsago Equifax lobbied to take away breach victims’ right to sue ibtimes.com/political-capi… 6/

#5yrsago Equifax’s dox of America: Sign up for “free” monitoring, get billed forever web.archive.org/web/2017091102… 7/

Yesterday's threads: Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures; The horrifying tale of a blockchain-based virtual sweatshop; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1567917059169738752

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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… 9/

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… 10/

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/ 11/

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… 12/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/s… 13/

Recent appearances:

* Launch for @Motherboard's Terraform antho
vice.com/en/article/3ad…

* 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… 14/

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… 15/

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

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