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Inside: What comes after neoliberalism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/ima…

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I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, an anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:

redteamblues.com 2/

What comes after neoliberalism? "There is no alternative" is really a demand, namely, "Stop trying to think of an alternative!"

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1640742612775714816

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Hey look at this

* Ten minutes, hot off the board kickstarter.com/projects/docto… 4/

#20yrsago @cshirky: Why 3G is doomed web.archive.org/web/2003060207…

#20yrsago Fed snoops want to wiretap the Internet theregister.com/2003/03/27/fbi…

#15yrsago #ChaseMortgage leaked memo shows “cheats and tricks” used to give out unqualified mortgages web.archive.org/web/2008033007… 5/

#10yrsago Editorial board of Journal of Library Administration resigns en masse in honor of @aaronsw chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/my-…

#10yrsago #TSA screener finds pepper spray on the floor, gasses five other screeners because he thought it was a laser-pointer nypost.com/2013/03/27/oop… 6/

#10yrsago Why security awareness training is a waste of time schneier.com/blog/archives/…

#5yrsago Data Defenders, a media literacy game about data collection and targeting for kids in grades 4-6 mediasmarts.ca/digital-media-… 7/

#5yrsago The @WSJ on the decade since the crash: inequality, giant banks, regulatory failures, looming catastrophe graphics.wsj.com/how-the-world-…

#5yrsago Young people hate #Facebook because it forces them to have a single identity theconversation.com/cambridge-anal… 8/

#5yrsago Chinese jaywalkers are identified and shamed by facial recognition, and now they’ll get warnings over text message scmp.com/tech/china-tec…

#5yrsago Teachers on four continents stage mass #strikes wsws.org/en/articles/20… 9/

#5yrsago Lobbyist for AT&T and Verizon publishes a threat to “aggressively” sue any states that pass #NetNeutrality laws arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#1yrago Podcasting "The Byzantine Premium": The contradiction at the heart of #Bitcoin advocacy pluralistic.net/2022/03/28/dum… 10/

Yesterday's threads: Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1640387421551443972

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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."

craphound.com/shop/ 14/

Upcoming appearances:

* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…

* Red Team Blues at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc… 15/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues at @DarkDel (#Burbank), Apr 26
darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

* @BayBookFest (#Berkeley/#BABF2023), 5/6-7
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d… 16/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues at @WordfestTweets (#Calgary), 5/11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro… 17/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (Manchester), 5/31
waterstones.com/events/in-conv…

* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste… 18/

Recent appearances:

* Is Copyright Good For Authors? (@TWiT)


* @culturejourno: What is chokepoint capitalism?
theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/chokepoint-c…

* Techtonic with @markhurst | @WFMU
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cor… 19/

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My latest @Medium column is "Silicon Valley Noir: Red Team Blues and the Role of Bitterness in Technothrillers"

doctorow.medium.com/silicon-valley… 22/

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