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Inside: $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck; and more!

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

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I'm coming to #Miami!

Tues (Oct 12): event for "Chokepoint Capitalism" @BooksandBooks (@rgibli's and my new book about creative labor markets and monopoly power)

booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso…

Weds (Oct 13): @JoinLincoln's Reboot Conference:

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$100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck: The self-driving car fraud was great business for Uber and Tesla.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1579198308698189824

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Hey look at this

* Behind the scenes at the Spookslot Haunted House (h/t @ridethoery)

* The Internet of Things (You Don’t Own) under Bourgeois Law tandfbis.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/… (h/t @cmcsherr)

* Archive of Lost Objects etsy.com/shop/archiveof… (h/t @JWZ) 4/

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#20yrsago Eldred hearing liveblog web.archive.org/web/2002101008…

#20yrsago GI Joe’s dream house snopes.com/fact-check/for…

#20yrsago @mathowie on Eldred and the Commons a.wholelottanothing.org/2002/10/09/cop… 5/

#15yrsago All the Beatles’ UK albums sped up 800% into a 1 hour MP3 web.archive.org/web/2012111408…

#15yrsago Yahoo Music to record execs: No more DRM, ever web.archive.org/web/2007100814…

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#10yrsago @ZeeAvi, skewered on an angelic voice memex.craphound.com/2012/10/08/zee…

#10yrsago Backyard Blockbusters: documentary about fan films zteamproductions.com/fanfilmdoc/

#10yrsago Fact-checking the RIAA’s claim that the number of working musicians fell by 41% arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 7/

#10yrsago Microsoft claims ownership of the number 45, asks Google to censor the US government and Bing torrentfreak.com/microsofts-bog…

#5yrsago The copay assumes the 99% treat healthcare like spiteful buffet gorgers jacobin.com/2017/10/sander… 8/

#5yrsago London’s amazing underground infrastructure revealed in vintage cutaway maps londonist.com/london/transpo…

#5yrsago Antifascist Greek protesters say they were tortured by police theguardian.com/world/2012/oct… 9/

#5yrsago @DanielPinkwater’s Bushman Lives: absurdist misfit story is an insightful treatise on art memex.craphound.com/2012/10/09/pin…

#5yrsago Distinguished scientist on the mistakes pundits make when they predict the future of AI technologyreview.com/2017/10/06/241… 10/

#5yrsago Triangulation is dead: what does “socialism” mean in the 21st century? theguardian.com/business/2017/…

#1yrago Facebook shouldn't be in charge of how you use Facebook: Unfollow Everything and the need for (good) tech regulation pluralistic.net/2021/10/08/unf… 11/

Friday's threads: "Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts); and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1578460002452312064

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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My latest novel 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… 14/

My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @beaconPressBks et al) 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 event, @BooksandBooks (Miami), 10/12
booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso…

* Reboot Conference, @JoinLincoln (Miami), 10/13
eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-…

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
libraryjournal.com/event/library-… 16/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), Oct 23
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctoro…

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @Rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)


* Canadians Connected 2022 with @AmberMac:


* Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon (@trashfuturepod)
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Happy #SpookySeason! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by @McRockefeller.

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