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Inside: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/29/hob…

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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/

Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1641091348450234368

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Hey look at this

* The Future is a Dead Mall - #Decentraland and the #Metaverse

* Help Save the #TexasObserver & Fight Staff Layoffs gofundme.com/f/laid-off-tex…

* Porn, Feminism & the folly of NC-17 (#Erotic90s) youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/1988-… 4/

#20yrsago #SARS: The Mystery Illness web.archive.org/web/2003040802…

#20yrsago @KPMG publishes absurd, self-serving wardriving report news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog…

#20yrsago Facts don’t violate trademarks web.archive.org/web/2003080308… 5/

#15yrsago @British_Airways loses 15-20,000 bags since Thursday at supremely b0rked Heathrow Terminal 5 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7…

#15yrsago Cartoon explains the difference between causality and covariation appliedabstractions.com/2008/03/29/cov… 6/

#10yrsago #Toronto Mayor #RobFord about to lose his job coaching high-school football? thestar.com/news/city_hall…

#10yrsago When US money was nice to look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-$… 7/

#10yrsago #ATMSkimming comes to non-ATM payment terminals in train stations, etc krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/cash-c…

#10yrsago Lessons learned from #YouTube’s $300M “Original Channel” fund web.archive.org/web/2013033005… 8/

#10yrsago Florida polo tycoon has difficulty adopting his 42-year-old girlfriend in order to keep assets away from bio-kids, ex-wife, family of guy he killed in a hit-and-run loweringthebar.net/2013/03/whats-…

#10yrsago Zombie houses: 300K+ in America csmonitor.com/Business/Lates… 9/

#10yrsago Songwriting podcast with #RichardSherman of @Disney’s Sherman Brothers sodajerker.com/episode-38-ric…

#5yrsago Paypal blocks payments for a @WSWS_Updates pamphlet about the Iranian opposition wsws.org/en/articles/20… 10/

#5yrsago #PrivateEquity killed big box retailers, leaving empty big boxes across America, and architects have plans popsci.com/repurposing-bi…

#5yrsago There’s a notorious #Nazi #ConcentrationCamp guard living in New York City and #ICE won’t deport him thedailybeast.com/ice-wont-depor… 11/

#5yrsago The idea behind #CambridgeAnalytica’s Facebook data-harvesting app came from a @PalantirTech employee, with support from @ericschmidt’s daughter nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/… 12/

Yesterday's threads: What comes after neoliberalism; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1640747089654079489

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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… 14/

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… 15/

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/ 16/

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… 17/

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… 18/

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… 19/

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… 20/

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… 21/

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

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