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Inside: One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct; 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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One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct: Remember when corporate raiders broke companies up?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1600826496670629889

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Hey look at this

* Ellen Harding Baker's “Solar System” Quilt (1876–ca. 1883) publicdomainreview.org/collection/sol…

* We Must Fight for a Better America. We Have No Choice newrepublic.com/article/168881…

* A year of new avenues robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenue… (h/t David Johnson) 4/

#20yrsago Email that won’t travel more than 500 miles copytechnet.com/forums/archive…

#20yrsago Tied to a tree for failing to pay utility bills in Azerbaijan rferl.org/a/1079243.html 5/

#10yrsago Pret fires longstanding employee who attempted to unionise, asked for the London Living Wage for all employees

#10yrsago Sony ceases production on cassette player/recorders web.archive.org/web/2012120903… 6/

#5yrsago Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music

https://twitter.com/RobynElyse/status/938916412248199168

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#5yrsago @AjitPai says an informed public (not Net Neutrality) will discipline ISPs (BTW, he’s also killing the rules forcing ISPs to inform the public) arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 8/

#5yrsago Here are some of the lavish, lobbyist-funded parties that Congress and the Trump administration will attend this month theintercept.com/2017/12/08/con…

#5yrsago Share of national wealth held by America’s 1% hits 50-year high washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2… 9/

#5yrsago Bosses seed Silicon Valley Christmas parties with models who impersonate fellow employees, after briefing them with back-stories bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 10/

#5yrsago Congressman Trent Franks [R-AZ] resigns amidst accusations that he pressured his female staff to bear his children as surrogate mothers nymag.com/intelligencer/…

#1yrago How elite hobbies let billionaires pay no tax pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/req… 11/

#1yrago Broken Promises: The Writers Guild of America West makes the case for media un-consolidation pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/req…

#1yrago All the books I reviewed in 2021 pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/req… 12/

Yesterday's threads: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead'; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1600482727630983169

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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:

* 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… 17/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 18/

Recent appearances:

* Plurality and democracy with @AudreyT (Liberté! Talks)


* Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (@ClearerPodcast)
clearerthinkingpodcast.com/episode/135

* @bubtroubpodcast (Part 1)
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