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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: American healthcare did a fuckery; The White House has a plan for Big Tech; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/10/big…

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#Toronto! #NewYork! #SanFrancisco! I'm heading your way with my next book, "Chokepoint Capitalism"!

9/16: Toronto - @typebooks/Junction 7PM

9/25: SF
sfpl.org/events/2022/09…

9/27: LA
booksoup.com/event/cory-doc…

More (#DC, #Ottawa, #Boston, #London, #Miami, more!) coming soon! 2/

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) 3/

American healthcare did a fuckery: A trillion prices can't be wrong.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1568605091543883782

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The White House has a plan for Big Tech: Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Biden all agree.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1568641644219760640

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Hey look at this

* Trailer for @greatdismal's "The Peripheral" (h/t @BoingBoing)

* Posh British bank tells its posh customers to turn off phone updates boingboing.net/2022/09/10/pos…

* The Fall of a Cheerleading Giant mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-an… 6/

#20yrsago Buzz Aldrin punches out lunar conspiracist web.archive.org/web/2002091210…

#5yrsago Tesla’s demon-haunted cars in Irma’s path get a temporary battery-life boost memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/tes… 7/

Yesterday's threads: Guide to a ripoff-free funeral; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1568264989328408576

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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…

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @TypeBooks Junction (Toronto), 9/19, 7PM

* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), 9/21-24
live.unfinished.com 12/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism, SFPL, 9/25
sfpl.org/events/2022/09…

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

* @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"

doctorow.medium.com/parenting-and-… 17/

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Today's top sources: Ken Snider (@orenwolf), Zane Selvans (@ZaneSelvans), @Slashdot (slashdot.org). 20/