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Inside: Antitrust is - and always has been - about fairness; and more!

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I'm coming to #Miami!

Wed (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…

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

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Antitrust is - and always has been - about fairness: SCOTUS is entitled to its own (judicial) opinions, but not its own facts.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1579499280624017409

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Hey look at this

* “Put Your Heart Into It” an animated short film by Cory Kerr corykerr.com/put-your-heart…

* Flip-Segment Digital Clock Is A Miniature Mechanical Marvel hackaday.com/2022/10/09/fli…

* Someone is pretending to be me connortumbleson.com/2022/09/19/som… (h/t Schneier) 4/

#15yrsago Wal-Mart’s total area larger than Manhattan’s web.archive.org/web/2007101101…

#10yrsago Australian PM lances a sexist boil in Parliament themarysue.com/australian-pri… 5/

#10yrsago Billionaire timeshare CEO to employees: there’ll be fewer jobs around here if Obama is re-elected web.archive.org/web/2012101021…

#10yrsago New York Five: beautifully told coming-of-age comic from @brianwood and Ryan Kelly memex.craphound.com/2012/10/10/new… 6/

#5yrsago An obscure copyright law is letting the @internetarchive distribute books published 1923-1941 blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/boo…

#5yrsago Reimplementing an Apple ][+ on an FPGA cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/appl… 7/

#5yrsago Equifax will give your salary history to anyone with your SSN and date of birth krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/equifa…

#5yrsago After her spies told Thatcher they thought an MP was raping children, she knighted him independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… 8/

#5yrsago @NaomiAllthenews’s “The Power”: in which fierce power of women is awoken memex.craphound.com/2017/10/10/nao… 9/

Yesterday's threads: $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1579221297657061376

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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… 12/

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-… 14/

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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