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Inside: How lawyers became sadists; and more!

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Next Monday (Oct 17), I'll be presenting remotely to @copyrightcentre's Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures conference in Glasgow:

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How lawyers became sadists: What about the incentive not to be perceived as a colossal asshole?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1581316520298573824

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Hey look at this

* An Oral History of Gimlet's Slow Demise thisisthesqueeze.substack.com/p/an-oral-hist…

* Big Tech accused of shady lobbying in EU Parliament politico.eu/article/big-te…

* Pan Solo in Carbonite boingboing.net/2022/10/14/inc… 4/

#20yrsago Warcarving pics.finnie.org/2002/1013_warp…

#20yrsago @Lessig explains the Supreme Court web.archive.org/web/2002101912…

#20yrsago Turing-complete is not a crime web.archive.org/web/2002102002…

#15yrsago More Irish bureaucrats raiding the national identity database independent.ie/irish-news/off… 5/

#15yrsago Other People’s Money: My Forbes story on the future of work web.archive.org/web/2007101802…

#15yrsago Bill Watterson reviews the new Charles Schulz bio wsj.com/articles/SB119…

#15yrsago Which laws don’t we enforce and why? slate.com/news-and-polit… 6/

#15yrsago Roger Wood, the mad clockman, profiled in the Toronto Star thestar.com/life/2007/10/1…

#15yrsago @KarlSchroeder’s Queen of Candesce: the Virga books just keep on buckling more swash memex.craphound.com/2007/10/15/kar… 7/

#10yrsago Pearson’s takedown notice over a quote from a 1974 textbook shuts down 1.45 million edublogs wpmudev.com/blog/serverbea…

#10yrsago How crooks turn even crappy hacked PCs into money krebsonsecurity.com/2012/10/the-sc… 8/

#5yrsago Puerto Rico’s streets crawl with heavily armed, masked mercenaries bearing no insignia or nametags latinorebels.com/2017/10/10/mas…

#5yrsago A parametric model to 3D print housekeys from photos hackaday.com/2017/10/14/3d-… 9/

#5yrsago New tool helps authors claim their copyrights back from publishers (even “perpetual assignments”) rightsback.org

#1yrago ROT 8000 and what "security" means: AKA, "infosec is a team sport" pluralistic.net/2021/10/15/far… 10/

Yesterday's threads: Medieval Times invents a modern union-busting tactic; Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1580951492588359685

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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:

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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:

* Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures – @copyrightcentre (Glasgow), 10/17
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* The Global Governance of Online Harms - @LawMcGill (Montreal), 10/20
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), 10/23
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @Rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
writersfestival.org/events/fall-20…

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

* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-ev… 18/

Recent appearances:

* The Literary Life w/Mitchell Kaplan (Lithub)
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* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use code "Doctorow" for a free month):
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* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)
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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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