My next novel is *The Lost Cause*, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through Kickstarter:

http://lost-cause.org

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I'm coming to #Minneapolis!

Oct 15: Presenting #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks:
https://moonpalacebooks.com/events/30127

Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing:
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/

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Underground Empire: Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman's must-read account of "How America Weaponized the World Economy."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111211071904316423

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The Lost Cause prologue part IV: "Commies, agitators, traitors, and climate bed wetters."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111211101456391512

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Hey look at this

* The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival by adamgryu https://adamgryu.itch.io/pumpkin-carver

* #UAW workers will #strike after rejecting deal with #MackTrucks https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/09/cars/uaw-mack-strike-hnk-intl/index.html (h/t Naked Capitalism)

* #JohnRiccitiello is out at #Unity, effective immediately https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/9/23910441/unity-ceo-president-john-riccitiello-out-retire

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#20yrsago SF writers on #Schwarzenegger http://www.infinitematrix.net/faq/editorials/index.html

#20yrsago #eMusic turns into a steaming pile https://memex.craphound.com/2003/10/09/emusic-turns-into-a-steaming-pile/

#15yrsago WalMart now says they’ll keep the #DRM servers on forever https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/09/walmart-now-says-theyll-keep-the-drm-servers-on-forever/

#15yrsago New Zealand’s copyright minister starts screaming when asked whether it’s fair to cut people off from the Internet on the basis of three unsubstantiated accusations of copyright infringement https://web.archive.org/web/20081009013140/http://it.gen.nz/2008/10/07/ministers-why-we-changed-the-copyright-act/

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#15yrsago Kids need to agree to 120+ pages of #EULAs in order to watch #BluRay Sleeping Beauty https://web.archive.org/web/20081013163001/http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/09/sleeping-beauty-blur.html

#10yrsago #LaurenBeukes and her daughter explain @neilhimself's Fortunately the Milk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On4vgU6envM

#10yrsago @EFF’s guide to the #NSA’s official malware https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/how-nsa-deploys-malware-new-revelations

#5yrsago Facebook’s new product: every-room cameras for your home https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/facebook-portal-are-you-serious-rn/

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#5yrsago Victory! Google will not bid on $10B Pentagon cloud computing contract https://web.archive.org/web/20181009051823/https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-10-08/google-drops-out-of-pentagon-s-10-billion-cloud-competition

#5yrsago Facebook’s top lobbyist threw #BrettKavanaugh a victory celebration in his home https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/technology/facebook-kavanaugh-nomination-kaplan.html

#1yrago $100 billion later, #AutonomousVehicles are still a car-wreck https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

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Yesterday's threads: How Google's trial secrecy lets it control the coverage; The Lost Cause prologue, part III; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111204465034931422

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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

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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* A Drink with #TheIdler (online), Oct 12
https://www.idler.co.uk/product/a-drink-with-the-idler-cory-doctorow-on-how-to-smash-big-tech/

* #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks (#Minneapolis), Oct 15
https://moonpalacebooks.com/events/30127

* 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/

* 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities (#Charleston, WV), Oct 19
https://festivallcharleston.com/venue/university-of-charleston/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #TaylorBooks (#Charleston, WV), Oct 20, 12h-14h
http://www.taylorbooks.com/

* Seizing the Means of Computation (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Oct 25
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/

* The Internet Con at the @internetarchive (virtual), Oct 31
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-the-internet-con-tickets-730939137637

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Recent appearances:

* An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification (#BurningMan Center Camp)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2fzvKxKvU

* Platform Decay, and How Amazon Raises Prices for Everyone (#SRSLYWrong)
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/297-platform-decay-and-how-amazon-raises-prices-for-everyone-w-cory-doctorow/

* The Diner Podcast
https://www.dinerpodcast.net/cory-doctorow-on-chokepoint-capitalism-en/

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If you're a @medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "What to do with the Democrats: They want to do it? Let's make them do it."

https://doctorow.medium.com/what-to-do-with-the-democrats-011c1dd677d6

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