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Inside: The urinary tract infection business-model; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/03/pai…

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It's @EFF Power Up Your Donation Week! Through Tuesday, 12/6, online donations to EFF get an automatic 2X match. I'm a donor!

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On Mon (Dec 5), I'll be at @Northeastern's @BurnesCenter in #Boston to talk about @rgibli's and my book *Chokepoint Capitalism* with the @NU_CAMD:

eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c…

It's also a webcast:

northeastern.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 3/

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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The urinary tract infection business-model: Welcome to the self-destructing space-ship future.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1599081086549729281

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Hey look at this

* NSA Security Posters from the 1960s and 1970s governmentattic.org/28docs/NSAsecu… (h/t Fipi Lele)

* 52 things I learned in 2022 medium.com/magnetic/52-th… (h/t @metafilter)

* A Snapshot of the #TwitterMigration deweysquare.com/wp-content/upl… (h/t @nelson) 6/

#15yrsago Holy crap, I love the cover of my next book! memex.craphound.com/2007/12/03/hol…

#15yrsago Canadian Industry Minister refuses to defend Canadian DMCA in public web.archive.org/web/2007120506… 7/

Yesterday's threads: How tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1598759123868319747

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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:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 9/

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… 10/

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."

craphound.com/shop/ 11/

Upcoming appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism: A Conversation/@Northeastern/@BurnesCenter/@NU_CAMD (Boston/webcast), 12/5
eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c…

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (New Orleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow 12/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 13/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 14/

Recent appearances:

* @BridgeTales (with @seananmcguire)
talesfromthebridge.buzzsprout.com/1795352/117887…

* @if_this_goes_on
itgodp.libsyn.com/chokepoint-cap…

* @NewBooksNetwork
newbooksnetwork.com/chokepoint-cap… 15/

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My latest @Medium column is "Poe vs. Property: A detective story of shifting rationalizations"

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Today's top sources: /r/LateStageCapitalism (reddit.com/r/LateStageCap…). 20/