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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Billionaire grifters hate her; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/24/shi…

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#SanFrancisco! I'm in town tomorrow with "Chokepoint Capitalism," @rgibli's and my latest book!

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Next stop, #LA (Sept 27): booksoup.com/event/cory-doc… 2/

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

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Billionaire grifters hate her: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Ida M Tarbell.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1573669180553019393

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Hey look at this

* Oh, you like Leonard Cohen? Name 3 of his songs that have securitized as collateral against Blackstone debt

https://twitter.com/fxmatt4/status/1569686074871398401

(h/t @YvesSmith) 5/

Hey look at this (cont'd)

* The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services Get access Arrow academic.oup.com/qje/article-ab… (h/t Fipi Lele) 6/

Hey look at this (cont'd)

* GEICO Tells Workers They Have ‘Right to Contact Police’ If Union Organizers Visit Their House vice.com/amp/en/article… (h/t @YvesSmith) 7/

#20yrsago @therealjanisian interviewed on @Slashdot news.slashdot.org/story/02/09/23…

#20yrsago Warchalking FAQ by @AaronSw web.archive.org/web/2002092502…

#20yrsago Roman chariots responsible for Space Shuttle design constraints web.archive.org/web/2002100403… 8/

#20yrsago Science fiction writers help the CIA wired.com/2002/10/i-foug…

#15yrsago Police can retroactively bug your phone for your breadcrumb trail wired.com/2007/09/is-tha…

#15yrsago Debate: Pixel-Stained Technopeasants Versus Webscabs trashotron.com/agony/news/200… 9/

#15yrsago My column on fixing cellphones by killing the carriers web.archive.org/web/2007101107…

#15yrsago Ha'penny, @BlueJoWalton's haunting thriller about an alternate British Reich memex.craphound.com/2007/09/24/hap… 10/

#15yrsago Cory Doctorow cosplayers at the @XKCD picnic flickr.com/photos/miserlo…

#10yrsago A report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports gao.gov/products/gao-1… 11/

#10yrsago How DRM screws people with visual disabilities: a report from the front lines zdnet.com/article/going-…

#10yrsago Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds web.archive.org/web/2013073016… 12/

#10yrsago Copyright lobbyists secretly engineering clawback of Canadian user rights web.archive.org/web/2012102819…

#10yrsago Time-Warner Cable pisses off two Starship Enterprise Captains on two coasts

https://twitter.com/amerbob/status/248684687227232256

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#10yrsago @MollyCrabapple describes and illustrates her Occupy arrest cnn.com/2012/09/22/opi…

#5yrsago Saudi history textbook features photo of King Faisal chilling with Yoda telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/2… 14/

#5yrsago The Spider Network, a novelistic account of the mediocre rich men who robbed the world with Libor memex.craphound.com/2017/09/24/the…

#1yrago Demonopolizing the internet with interoperability: My op-ed in the Communications of the ACM pluralistic.net/2021/09/24/com… 15/

#1yrago The music monopolists: Thinking outside the antitrust box pluralistic.net/2021/09/23/rem…

#1yrago The Halloween Moon: A YA novel from Nightvale creator @PlanetofFinks pluralistic.net/2021/09/23/rem… 16/

Thursday's threads: Twitch does a chokepoint capitalism; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1572971462809591816

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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… 18/

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… 19/

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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism, SFPL (San Francisco), 9/25
sfpl.org/events/2022/09…

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

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @AltaJournal Live (Zoom), 9/28
altaonline.com/events/a411093… 21/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @BooksandBooks (Miami), 10/12
booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso… 22/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
libraryjournal.com/event/library-…

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

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

* Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (@MachineKillsPod)
soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

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

* Where’s My Privacy? (@myjetpackca)
wheresmyjetpack.ca/2022/09/14/doc… 24/

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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