@kbal @Hirom

Lots at the LOC too:

https://kagi.com/images?q=site%3Aloc.gov+keppler+punch

I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

http://thebezzle.org

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Recent appearances:

• The Lost Cause (The Writer’s Voice)
  https://www.writersvoice.net/2024/01/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause/

• What the Future will Bring (#HomelessRomantic)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Vq8qW2A8I

• Talking “The Lost Cause” with Warren Mosler (#MMTPodcast)
  https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-182-cory-95211955

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Upcoming appearances:

• Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech (#CrashCourseEconomics)
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YsKONp5zRgeF6SVuIOb6hQ#/registration

• Books & Books (#CoralGables, #Florida), Jan 22
  https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

• Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (#Berlin), Jan 29
  https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024

• The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 30
  https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) 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.”

https://craphound.com/shop/

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My latest novel is “The Lost Cause,” a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

http://lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/

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My latest nonfiction book is “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation” from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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Yesterday’s threads: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111767289346697915

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#5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU #CopyrightDirective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/now-everybody-hates-new-eu-copyright-directive

#1yrago #CareInflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/18/wages-for-housework/#low-wage-workers-vs-poor-consumers

#1yrago #EleanorJanega’s “Once and Future Sex”: The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/17/ren-faire/#going-medieval

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#5yrsago An archive of Freedom, #PaulRobeson and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223255/http://dlib.nyu.edu/freedom/

#5yrsago Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards https://revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action/

#5yrsago Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA #TeachersStrike https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/rising-tide-teacher-strikes-finally-exposing-corrupt-charter-school-agenda.html

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#10yrsago Scoring Obama’s NSA reforms (spoiler: it’s not good) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/rating-obamas-nsa-reform-plan-eff-scorecard-explained

#15yrsago Mr Chicken: the genius who paints London’s fried-chicken signs https://web.archive.org/web/20101208073826/https://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/march/meet-mr-chicken

#10yrsago Congress requires publicly funded research to be publicly available https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/newly-passed-appropriations-bill-makes-even-more-publicly-funded-research-available-online

#10yrsago Android malware uses accelerometer readings to figure out if it was running on a real phone or in emulation https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/google-play-malware-used-phones-motion-sensors-to-conceal-itself/

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#15yrsago Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance, a look at the bumbling, murdering, drunken idiots (and others) who’ve served as vice-president of the USA https://memex.craphound.com/2009/01/18/veeps-profiles-in-insignificance-a-look-at-the-bumbling-murdering-drunken-idiots-and-others-whove-served-as-vice-president-of-the-usa/

#10yrsago #TimWu on FCC’s #NetNeutrality disaster https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/14/a-fema-level-fail-the-law-professor-who-coined-net-neutrality-lashes-out-at-the-fccs-legal-strategy/

#10yrsago Random #NSA program generator, with denials https://divergentdave.github.io/nsa-o-matic/

#10yrsago Parfaitzilla: the dessert that ate Japan https://mochihead.tumblr.com/post/31243751745

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Hey look at this

• The coming storm https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/the-coming-storm.html

• Retrocomputer miniatures https://store.transmutable.com/

• #GoogleSearch Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find https://www.404media.co/google-search-really-has-gotten-worse-researchers-find/

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The super-rich got that way through monopolies: A report in honor of Davos.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111771698348882032

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Catch me in #Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:

https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

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I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

http://thebezzle.org

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I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

http://thebezzle.org

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Balzac wrote, “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” Chances are, the rapsheet includes an antitrust violation. Getting rid of monopolies won’t get rid of all the billionaires, but it’ll certainly get rid of a hell of a lot of them.

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Even more exciting are the moves in the #GlobalSouth. In South Africa, “competition law contains some of the most progressive ideas of all”:

> It actively seeks to create greater economic participation, particularly for ‘historically disadvantaged persons’ as part of its public interest considerations in merger decisions.

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(Khan’s winning like crazy. Just last month she killed four megamergers:)

https://www.thesling.org/the-ftc-just-blocked-four-mergers-in-a-month-heres-how-its-latest-win-fits-into-the-broader-campaign-to-revive-antitrust/

The EU and UK are taking actions that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. Canada is finally set to get a real competition law, with the Trudeau government promising to add an “abuse of dominance” rule to Canada’s antitrust system.

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The past three years saw more regulatory action on corporate mergers, price-gouging, predatory pricing, labor abuses and other evils of monopoly than we got in the past 40 years.

The business press - cheerleaders for monopoly - keep running editorials claiming that enforcers like #LinaKhan are getting nothing done. Sure, #WSJ, Khan’s getting nothing done - that’s why you ran 80 editorial about her:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion

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