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Inside: Twitch does a chokepoint capitalism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/22/ama…

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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!

eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c…

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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Twitch does a chokepoint capitalism: "Amazon is charging Amazon so much money to run the business via Amazon that it has no choice but to take more money from streamers."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1572967747541405696

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Hey look at this

* America’s Open Wound edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/americas-ope…

* Space-themed replacement keyboard keys etsy.com/listing/100524… (h/t @Jstruan)

* The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60) publicdomainreview.org/collection/gar… 5/

#15yrsago Ex-spook cult now running most of Russian politics wired.com/2007/09/russia…

#15yrsago Why knockoffs are good for fashion newyorker.com/magazine/2007/…

#15yrsago Harvard Coop calls cops on students who wrote down textbook ISBNs web.archive.org/web/2007110519… 6/

#15yrsago Pirate Bay suing major media companies for sabotage, based on MediaDefender leak tech.slashdot.org/story/07/09/22…

#10yrsago The Kairos Mechanism: a half-sequel to The Bone Shaker memex.craphound.com/2012/09/22/the…

#10yrsago @TheWELL is bought by its users web.archive.org/web/2012092213… 7/

#10yrsago 150 years of photos of American lesbians autostraddle.com/150-years-of-l…

#5yrsago Boring, complex and important: the deadly mix that blew up the open web wired.co.uk/article/w3c-ef… 8/

#5yrsago If you freeze your credit, Experian will let crooks unfreeze it by ticking a box krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/experi…

#5yrsago Republicans who support tuition-free state college outnumber opponents theintercept.com/2017/09/21/fre… 9/

#5yrsago Apple makes it harder to track you online, ad industry has an aneurysm eff.org/deeplinks/2017…

#5yrsago Spain’s right-wing government orders brutal police crackdown on Catalan independence referendum independent.co.uk/news/world/eur… 10/

#5yrsago On the road with America’s post-homed nomads lithub.com/life-on-the-ro…

#5yrsago European Commission spent 360,000€ on a piracy study, then buried it because they didn’t like what it said felixreda.eu/2017/09/secret… 11/

#5yrsago @greatdismal interviewed: Archangel, the Jackpot, and the instantly commodifiable dreamtime of industrial societies memex.craphound.com/2017/09/22/wil…

#1yrago Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kro… 12/

#1yrago Mutual Aid and @DavidGraeber: A new, illustrated edition of Kropotkin's masterpiece, with an introduction from the great, much-missed hero of Occupy pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kro…

#1yrago Gig workers around the globe: One disease, many pathologies pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kro… 13/

#1yrago The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever used pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/mon…

#1yrago Ignore career advice from established writers pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/mon… 14/

#1yrago The Actual Star: @monicabyrne13's millennium-spanning tour-de-force climate novel pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/mon… 15/

Monday's threads: Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1572202279616364544

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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… 17/

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… 18/

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/ 19/

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
sfpl.org/events/2022/09… 20/

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… 21/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/s… 22/

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… 23/

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 Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 24/

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