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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Spotify steals from artists, a Spotify exclusive; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/12/str…

#Pluralistic 1/

#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/

Spotify steals from artists, a Spotify exclusive: More Chokepoint Capitalism stunt-publishing.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1569322125336403968

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Hey look at this

* Transacting in Person with Strangers from the Internet krebsonsecurity.com/2022/09/transa… (h/t @Slashdot)

* Atkinson Hyperlegible Font brailleinstitute.org/freefont (h/t Trivium)

* A Note on "Industrial Policy” braddelong.substack.com/p/a-note-on-in… (h/t @YvesSmith) 5/

#15yrsago Voice-stress ice-cream dispenser increases portions for the miserable web.archive.org/web/2007101205…

#15yrsago US hedge-funds wax fat by investing in Chinese surveillance nytimes.com/2007/09/11/bus… 6/

#15yrsago Canadian gov’t convenes secret net-tapping inquiry web.archive.org/web/2007101109…

#10yrsago Magic: The Gathering is Turing complete toothycat.net/~hologram/Turi…

#10yrsago @DBtodomundo’s How Music Works memex.craphound.com/2012/09/12/dav… 7/

#5yrsago Deposit “tips” that are actually fake money with Bible verses in the church collection plate imgur.com/gallery/c4BrU

#5yrsago Chinese government sources tell the WSJ they’re about to shut down all domestic Bitcoin exchanges theverge.com/2017/9/11/1628… 8/

#5yrsago RIP, Imagineer X Atencio gizmodo.com/x-antencio-dis…

#5yrsago Blueborne is a newly revealed Bluetooth attack that allows wireless penetration of billions of devices arstechnica.com/information-te… 9/

#5yrsago Red Cross “didn’t show up” at Florida shelters during Irma yorkdispatch.com/story/news/201…

#5yrsago There’s an 820-foot-long fatberg clogging an east London sewer consumerreports.org/consumerist/lo… 10/

Saturday's threads: American healthcare did a fuckery; The White House has a plan for Big Tech; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1568644802056527873

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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… 12/

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… 13/

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/ 14/

Upcoming appearances:

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

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @TypeBooks Junction (Toronto), 9/16, 7PM

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

Upcoming appearances (cont'd)

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, SFPL (San Francisco), 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

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…

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…

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ETA: an earlier version of this thread gave the wrong date for my event in Toronto at @typebooks in the Junction; it's Sept 16!