I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:

https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0

More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:

http://martinhench.com

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Who Broke the Internet? Part III: The paradox of "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114535205099873636

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Hey look at this

* Patients Before Monopolies https://benjaminjolley.substack.com/p/patients-before-monopolies

* Drop + DOOM: The Dark Ages Slayer's Arsenal Artisan Keycap https://drop.com/buy/drop-doom-the-dark-ages-slayers-arsenal-artisan-keycap (h/t Yanko Design)

* A Shapeshifting Situationship https://jimmunroe.net/comics/zeroed-out/a-shapeshifting-situationship.html

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#20yrsago My PopSci piece on radio’s Broadcast Flag https://web.archive.org/web/20050520034838/https://www.popsci.com/popsci/personaltech/article/0,20967,1051257,00.html

#20yrsago My Wired News op-ed about the BBC https://web.archive.org/web/20050520005755/https://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67552,00.html

#20yrsago Russian villagers scavenge fallen Soyuz junk to survive https://www.spacedaily.com/news/debris-05d.html

#20yrsago WiFi crypto can be broken in 3 mins https://web.archive.org/web/20050519000137/https://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article111.php

#15yrsago Lost etymology of “fanboy” https://technologizer.com/2010/05/17/fanboy/

#15yrsago Linda Stone on email apnea and continuous partial attention https://vimeo.com/7551900

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#15yrsago Punk photography from Maximumrocknroll https://web.archive.org/web/20100520000538/https://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/05/gallery-maximum-rocknroll/all/1

#15yrsago SWORD OF MY MOUTH: Apocalyptic graphic novel about the tyranny of angels https://memex.craphound.com/2010/05/17/sword-of-my-mouth-apocalyptic-graphic-novel-about-the-tyranny-of-angels/

#15yrsago Time to kill “Information Wants to Be Free” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/18/information-wants-to-be-free

#15yrsago New York Times headline writer allergic to the word “liar” https://memex.naughtons.org/euphemism-nyt-style/11033/

#15yrsago Blowgun woman: “I like to hear people say ‘ouch'” https://web.archive.org/web/20100429014025/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36725246/ns/us_news/

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#15yrsago Financial Times chickens out, refuses to run Amnesty’s anti-Shell Oil ad https://web.archive.org/web/20100520180957/http://amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18768

#10yrsago Atlanta pays $20,000 to critic forced to post pro-cop message to Facebook https://web.archive.org/web/20150514160324/http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2015/05/12/baton-bob-to-receive-20000-settlement-for-2013-arrest-in-midtown

#10yrsago Blizzard bans 100,000 Warcraft players https://hothardware.com/news/blizzard-puts-over-100000-cheaters-on-ice-in-epic-world-of-warcraft-banning-spree

#10yrsago Dolls with hearing aids, port-wine stains and canes https://web.archive.org/web/20150911020636/https://mymakie.com/campaign/toylikeme/

#5yrsago Neoliberals won't waste this crisis https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/cheap-truthers/#bannon-lenninism

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#5yrsago Farewell to Beyond the Beyond https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/cheap-truthers/#cheap-truth

#5yrsago DOD lie-detector manual leaked https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/cheap-truthers/#buttholes

#5yrsago Instagram's slow-mo appeals court https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/cheap-truthers/#robot-sez-no

#5yrsago Deliveroo, without Delivero https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#platform-cooperatvism

#5yrsago Airgap-busting malware https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#ramsay

#5yrsago Universal broadband now https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#digital-divide

#5yrsago See through walls with free software https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#vaneck

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#5yrsago England's storks are back https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#estorchestone

#5yrsago Restaurateur wreaks algorithmic vengeance upon Doordash https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#schadenpizza

#5yrsago Ada Palmer, being brilliant for 2.5h https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#terra-ignota

#1yrago Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/18/market-discipline/#too-big-to-care

#1yrago You were promised a jetpack by liars https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/#twenty-one-seconds

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Saturday's threads: Plinkpump linkdump; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114523877364106853

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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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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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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:

* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 30
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cascade-pbs-ideas-festival-tickets-1251699710529

* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2025

* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062183697-0

* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/library/author-talk-cory-doctorow

* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
https://howtoacademy.com/events/cory-doctorow-the-fight-against-the-big-tech-oligarchy/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1308451968059

* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
https://www.uk.coop/events-and-training/events-calendar/co-op-congress-2025-book-your-place

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
http://www.contraflowscifi.org/

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Recent appearances:

* In God We Antitrust (Understood)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor/episode/16147052-in-god-we-antitrust

* Fireside Fedi
https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/huevh4L6r1yMYXqcQMi8gR

* Ctrl-ctrl-ctrl (Understood)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor/episode/16145640-ctrl-ctrl-ctrl

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