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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Citizens United and the FTX meltdown; and more!

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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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Citizens United and the FTX meltdown: The Keating Five were amateurs.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1595428993616027649

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Hey look at this

* Displaying the Dead publicdomainreview.org/essay/musee-du…

* UK Regulators Want Apple to Open its App Store Doors to Cloud Gaming gizmodo.com/apple-google-u…

* @EFF 2021 annual report annualreport.eff.org 4/

#10yrsago Hacker’s ad for a Yahoo email-stealing exploit, up for sale at $700 krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/yahoo-…

#10yrsago Saudi Arabian women tracked at the border with system that SMSes their husbands when they leave the country english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012%… 5/

#10yrsago Staffers for millionaire/wrestling magnate/failed GOP Senate candidate say they were stiffed, got bad checks and condoms: “you’re screwed” web.archive.org/web/2012112717… 6/

#5yrsago Blame the US Retail Apocalypse on hedge funds and financialization, not Amazon and Walmart bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-…

#5yrsago Women are fleeing Donald Trump’s Republican party in droves, and the GOP has no idea what to do about it theatlantic.com/politics/archi… 7/

#1yrago The definitive answers to Disney's pernicious queueing debates pluralistic.net/2021/11/23/jum… 8/

Yesterday's threads: Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1595104892133249029

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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:

* Conversation with @Superwuster, #Informed22/@knightfdn (Miami), 11/30:
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* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (New Orleans), 1/27-30
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
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* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), Mar 2:
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Recent appearances:

* @NewBooksNetwork
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* @bizwithoutbs
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* @teamhumanshow interview
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My latest @Medium column is "Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop: Ticketmaster and Ideas Lying Around"

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