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Inside: Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/11/21/rah…

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My publisher @torbooks and @goodreads are drawing for a giveaway of advance copies of my next novel, "Red Team Blues," a Silicon Valley forensic accounting thriller about a cryptocurrency heist - If you're in the US or Canada, enter here to win a copy:

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Tomorrow (11/22), I'm hosting a @CalBookClub event with Kim Stanley Robinson where we'll be discussing his 1998 novel "The Gold Coast":

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Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos: It's varsity-level corruption.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1594690669494214656

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Hey look at this

* Watch an @iFixit employee shoot a battery with a nailgun to teach us safety theverge.com/2022/11/18/234…

* Twitter Is Going Great twitterisgoinggreat.com (h/t @BoingBoing)

* "AOC" Handmade Moments/John Craigie (h/t Cindy Cohn) 5/

#20yrsago BBC’s new site learns from you memex.craphound.com/2002/11/20/bbc…

#20yrsago Turducken: chicken-in-duck-in-turkey nytimes.com/2002/11/20/din…

#20yrsago The DMCA and the Mac web.archive.org/web/2002120419… 6/

#20yrsago Ten Commandments judge Roy Moore overruled by Supreme Court salon.com/2005/06/28/ten…

#15yrsago Open Rights Groups – the first two years openrightsgroup.org/blog/open-righ…

#15yrsago Engraved Victorian tentacle-horrors from Dan Hillier danhillier.com 7/

#15yrsago Disney lawyers enstupidize ride with dumb legal disclaimer flickr.com/photos/unsuper…

#15yrsago UK tax authorities repeatedly lose 25m peoples' tax records theguardian.com/politics/2007/… 8/

#15yrsago Sardine in Outer Space: Cheerful anarchist comix for kids memex.craphound.com/2007/11/20/sar…

#15yrsago Time’s Joe Klein gets everything wrong in column about NSA domestic spying wired.com/2007/11/times-… 9/

#10yrsago Five reasons to opt out of TSA pornoscanners this weekend huffpost.com/entry/5-reason…

#10yrsago Creationist fifth grade science textbook used in Louisiana public school buzzfeednews.com/article/andrew… 10/

#10yrsago Toronto Mayor Rob Ford demonstrates his governance style memex.craphound.com/2012/11/21/tor…

#10yrsago Beyond the public debt: making a wider case for openness theguardian.com/technology/201… 11/

#10yrsago US publishers sabotage treaty on the rights of people with print disabilities eff.org/deeplinks/2012…

#10yrsago Buyer beware: Nintendo nukes $400 worth of downloaded content during DRM-fail migration to Wii U arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11… 12/

#10yrsago Bibliomat: a vending machine for random rare and antiquarian books (with satisfying clunk) vimeo.com/53679084

#10yrsago Cowardice: Gutless House Republicans retract copyright paper in less than 24 hours techdirt.com/2012/11/17/tha… 13/

#10yrsago Artist arrested at Oakland airport for wearing ornate watch cbsnews.com/news/man-with-…

#10yrsago Absurd licensing terms imposed on public domain works by libraries and museums papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 14/

#10yrsago Solitaire.exe: a real deck of cards based on Windows 98 Solitaire evan-roth.com/work/solitaire…

#5yrsago After a Freedom of Information lawsuit, the White House visitor logs are now available online as a free searchable database projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-co… 15/

#5yrsago The stairs in a viral sensation public library in China run with blood, and its “books” are just sheets of aluminum screened with pictures of spines yahoo.com/news/chinas-fu… 16/

#5yrsago The FCC will move to kill net neutrality over Thanksgiving and it thinks that we’ll all be too busy eating and shopping to notice techdirt.com/2017/11/21/fcc… 17/

#5yrsago Paul Ryan imagines “Cindy,” a hypothetical beneficiary of his tax plan, doesn’t realize she and her child are starving to death shadowproof.com/2017/11/20/pau… 18/

#5yrsago Trump’s Oklahoma campaign manager, who once introduced an anti-immigrant law to “stop sex trafficking of children,” admits to trafficking young boy for sex americanindependent.com/trump-campaign… 19/

#5yrsago Wall Street and Trump are about to kill the CFPB, the only government agency that effectively polices bank scams, crimes and frauds theintercept.com/2017/11/18/wal… 20/

#5yrsago Candid Wall Street barons worry that GOP tax plan will lead to literal euthanasia of the rentier vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/w… 21/

#5yrsago The Trump-funding, democracy-denying, Gawker-destroying Peter Thiel is finally no longer involved with Y Combinator buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma… 22/

#5yrsago Scientist puts his dog on the editorial boards of seven predatory journals as proof of their negligence perthnow.com.au/news/wa/the-pe… 23/

#5yrsago Puerto Rico, abandoned by Trump and facing disaster capitalism looting by big business, turns to socialist and anarchist collectives to rebuild nybooks.com/online/2017/11… 24/

#5yrsago America’s private health-care is rationed, but socialized medicine is luxury medicine jacobin.com/2017/11/single…

#5yrsago How technology’s built in “engagement maximization” destroys mental health in the Trump age, and what to do about it memex.craphound.com/2017/11/20/how… 25/

#5yrsago After Roy Moore threatens to sue AL.com, the publisher puts him on notice to preserve all documents for their countersuit

https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/932351827756056586

#1yrago Inflation or price-gouging?: Big business loves inflation talk pluralistic.net/2021/11/20/qui… 26/

#1yrago Harvard is full of rich, white low-achievers pluralistic.net/2021/11/18/bip…

#1yrago This is your Congress on drugs: Corruption kills pluralistic.net/2021/11/18/bip…

#1yrago Teamsters transformed pluralistic.net/2021/11/19/hof… 27/

Thursday's threads: Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1593180721820073984

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

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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:

* Kim Stanley Robinson's Gold Coast (@CalBookClub), Nov 22
altaonline.com/california-boo…

* Conversation with @superwuster, #Informed22/@knightfdn (Miami), 11/30:
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (New Orleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 33/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), Mar 2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 34/

Recent appearances:

* @teamhumanshow interview
teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-c…

* How big tech traps consumers and shafts creators (@IrishTimes)
shows.acast.com/inside-politic…

* Copyright Waffle (@UKCopyrightLit)
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