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Inside: Deena Mohamed's 'Shubiek Lubiek'; and more!

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Deena Mohamed's 'Shubiek Lubiek': An English edition of a brilliant Egyptian alt history comic about a world where wishes are real.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1613084558328582144

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Hey look at this

* 2023 CES Worst in Show Awards

* modern day monopoly stickers tradstickydesign.com/product-page/c…

* Bad news for thousands of crypto investors: They don’t own their accounts (see pluralistic.net/2022/02/03/liq…) 3/

#5yrsago Publicly funded private school creates “poor kids’ playground” for kids whose parents wouldn’t contribute to new playground equipment theguardian.com/education/2018… 4/

#5yrsago Federal appeals court blasts North Carolina’s unconstitutional, Republican gerrymandering, orders new districts by Jan 24 nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/…

#5yrsago Private prison tortures asylum seeker who refused “voluntary” labor theintercept.com/2018/01/11/ice… 5/

#5yrsago Federal prosecutors say that Ohio man used MacOS malware that covertly operated cameras and mics and exfiltrated porn searches for 13 years arstechnica.com/information-te… 6/

#5yrsago Adversarial examples: attack can imperceptibly alter any sound (or silence), embedding speech that only voice-assistants will hear arxiv.org/pdf/1801.01944…

#5yrsago At long last, open video formats are triumphing robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/the-fi… 7/

#5yrsago Federal Appeals Court rules that violating a website’s Terms of Service is not a crime eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

#5yrsago Two years later, Google solves ‘racist algorithm’ problem by purging ‘gorilla’ label from image classifier wired.com/story/when-it-… 8/

#5yrsago Seven years after attempting to rip off Ken “@Popehat” White, fraudster gets 108-month federal prison sentence popehat.com/2018/01/11/ana… 9/

#5yrsago Missouri GOP governor accused of blackmailing married lover with nude pics. His colleagues already hate his guts. cnn.com/2018/01/11/pol…

#10yrsago @DBTodoMundo and St Vincent concert video: Love This Giant npr.org/2013/01/09/168… 10/

Yesterday's threads: The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1612791653693005827

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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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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

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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 (#NewOrleans), 1/27-30
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* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
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Upcoming appearances (cont):

* Future of Arts/Culture/Tech, @ACMI, (#Melbourne), Feb 14
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* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (#Canberra), 2/17:
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* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
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My latest Medium column is "NYT: Binding Arbitration For Thee, But Not For Me"

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