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Inside: Monopoly's event-horizon; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/05/eld…

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

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Today (Dec 5) at 18hET, 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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Monopoly's event-horizon: The true capitalist singularity.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1599770372651589632

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Hey look at this

* Cory Doctorow Wants You to Know What Computers Can and Can’t Do newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…

* Hoarding Center Clutter Image Rating hoardingdisordersuk.org/wp-content/upl… (h/t Tom Whitwell)

* Credit cards as a legacy system bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/credit… 6/

#20yrsago Stupid copyright claims? Just ask web.archive.org/web/2003022309…

#20yrsago 20k-50k WiFi hotspots coming web.archive.org/web/2002120602…

#20yrsago @ShermanOakes1 on ICANN’s corruption web.archive.org/web/2002121918…

#15yrsago @SFWA’s farting rainbows tee whatever.scalzi.com/2007/12/05/sff… 7/

#10yrsago Translating plutocrat economic campaign-speak into plain English nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/the-ob…

#10yrsago Major studios send legal threats to Google demanding removal of links to their own Facebook pages and more torrentfreak.com/movie-studios-… 8/

#10yrsago Computer classes should teach regular expressions to kids theguardian.com/technology/201…

#10yrsago UN’s International Telecommunications Union sets out to standardize bulk surveillance of Internet users by oppressive governments cdt.org/insights/adopt… 9/

#10yrsago Open, CC-licensed photo course draws up to 35,000 students bbc.com/news/in-pictur…

#1yrsago When you hear "one size fits all," think "universal": The origins and expansion of a right-wing shibboleth pluralistic.net/2021/12/05/uni… 10/

Saturday's threads: The urinary tract infection business-model; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1599083600531623941

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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… 12/

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… 13/

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: A Conversation/@Northeastern/@BurnesCenter/@NU_CAMD (Boston/webcast), 12/5
eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c… 15/

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

* 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… 16/

Recent appearances:

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

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

* @NewBooksNetwork
newbooksnetwork.com/chokepoint-cap… 17/

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