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Inside: Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority; and more!

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#NYC! I'm in town this week with "Chokepoint Capitalism," @rgibli's and my latest book! See us Friday at 7PM at @nyuEngelberg!

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All this week, I'll be at #UnfinishedLive: live.unfinished.com

More cities here:

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If you can't make it to a tour-stop and want a signed, personalized copy shipped to your door, our friends at @FolioSf have you covered:

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Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority: The moral majority is neither.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1572198665783242754

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Hey look at this

* ‘I think I was good, though I could have been better’ (Pratchett) theguardian.com/books/2022/sep…

* Inside Apple’s Secret iPhone 14 Redesign ifixit.com/News/64865/iph…

* CO police bind woman on railroad tracks, let her get hit by a train boingboing.net/2022/09/20/col… 5/

#20yrsago Scientology silences critics at Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine web.archive.org/web/2012110810…

#20yrsago New bill will make analog VCRs and TVs illegal in 2006 digitalconsumer.org/press-release-…

#20yrsago Groucho to Warner Bros: Get Bent web.archive.org/web/2002060403… 6/

#15yrsago My Guardian column on “the information economy” theguardian.com/technology/200…

#15yrsago DRM violates Canadian privacy law cippic.ca/sites/default/…

#15yrsago Private doc does “e-visits” by email or webcam web.archive.org/web/2007092503… 7/

#15yrsago Soviet top-level domain refuses to die web.archive.org/web/2007010100…

#15yrsago London’s panopticon of CCTVs aren’t solving crimes forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php…

#10yrsago Fresco “restorer” wants a royalty from the church techdirt.com/2012/09/19/old… 8/

#5yrsago America’s execs increasingly believe health insurance industry is worse than useless truthout.org/articles/even-…

#5yrsago Trump’s cutback-crazed health secretary loves billing private jets to the US taxpayer politico.com/story/2017/09/… 9/

#5yrsago Quiz: Breitbart headline, or KKK newspaper headline from the 1920s? slate.com/blogs/the_vaul…

#5yrsago 20% of Manchester police systems run Windows XP bbc.com/news/technolog… 10/

Yesterday's threads: How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1571927309581684736

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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:

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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:

* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), 9/21-23
live.unfinished.com

* Chokepoint Capitalism with @reckless, @NYUEngelberg (NYC) 9/23, 7PM
eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c…

* Chokepoint Capitalism, SFPL (San Francisco), 9/25
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Upcoming appearances: (cont'd)

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

* Discussing "Adventure Capitalism" with @RayCraib, @SkylightBooks (LA), 9/29
blog.pmpress.org/events/raymond…

* #OnlinePublicSphere2022, 10/3
globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/events/regulat… 16/

Upcoming appearances: (cont'd)

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

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

* Billionaires As Policy Failure Factories (@CheeseMacro)
realprogressives.org/podcast_episod…

* Where’s My Privacy? (@myjetpackca)
wheresmyjetpack.ca/2022/09/14/doc…

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

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