Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree; and more!
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Hey #DC! There's a *very special* invite-only book party for "Chokepoint Capitalism" tonight (Nov 17) and while it's not a public event, there's a limited number of spaces I can distribute on a first come/first serve basis. If you'd like to come, email doctorow@craphound.com! 2/
Today (11/17), I'm part of a @library_futures webinar:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Tomorrow (11/18), I'm in Baltimore at @thePeale Museum:
thepeale.org/event/book-tal…
Fri (11/19), I'm at Sky Live in London:
news.sky.com/bigideaslive 3/
Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree: And you thought it was bad before.
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Hey look at this
* Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms vice.com/en/article/5d3… (h/t Slashdot)
* Fantastic Medieval Campaigns traversefantasy.itch.io/fmc (h/t Vintage RPG)
* @LocusMag's first crowdfunding campaign! indiegogo.com/projects/locus… 5/
#20yrsago Visa claims to own dictionary definition of “visa” web.archive.org/web/2002111811…
#20yrsago Hacker R0TC latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
#15yrsago Korea’s Internet “addiction” boot-camps nytimes.com/2007/11/18/tec… 6/
#15yrsago House keeps AT&T on the hook for spying on America, Senate next? eff.org/deeplinks/2007…
#15yrsago Infringement Nation: we are all mega-crooks web.archive.org/web/2007112701…
#10yrsago Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: The perfect nerdish fantasy memex.craphound.com/2012/11/16/mr-… 7/
#10yrsago What do we do about untrustworthy Certificate Authorities? nature.com/articles/49132…
#10yrsago Taliban uses CC instead of BCC, exposes identity of 400+ contacts observer.com/2012/11/taliba… 8/
#10yrsago House Republicans release watershed copyright reform paper techdirt.com/2012/11/16/hou…
#5yrsago Outstanding rant about the surreal design ethos of The Cheesecake Factory 9/
#5yrsago Poor Detroit neighborhoods, abandoned by telcos and the FCC, are rolling out homebrew, community mesh broadband vice.com/en/article/kz3…
#5yrsago 70% of poor people on broadband subsidy will lose their connections thanks to Trump’s FCC arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 10/
#5yrsago The 0.2% of Americans exempted by the GOP estate-tax plan (including the Trump cabinet) have never paid tax on their millions and never will nytimes.com/2017/11/16/bus… 11/
#5yrsago Donald Trump will re-legalize importing endangered elephants’ ivory and severed heads newscientist.com/article/215368…
#5yrsago Navy admits its pilot sky-wrote a giant cloud-wiener krem.com/article/news/l… 12/
#5yrsago Pentagon mass surveillance slurped up the world’s social media traffic; then they dumped it on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server upguard.com/breaches/cloud… 13/
#5yrsago Web analytics companies offer “replay sessions” that let corporations watch every click and keystroke for individual users wired.com/story/the-dark… 14/
#5yrsago Trump’s top economic advisor asks CEOs to raise hands if they’re going to use tax cuts to invest, boggled by no one raising hands washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2… 15/
#5yrsago Study finds that people vote for strongman “dominance” leaders when they they feel out of control of their lives scientificamerican.com/article/explai… 16/
#5yrsago Hackers can freeze the camera that lets you know whether your “Amazon Key” equipped door is locked and who is using it wired.com/story/amazon-k… 17/
#5yrsago The Internet of Shit is so manifestly insecure that people are staying away from it in droves www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/De…
#5yrsago “Economic murder”: Senior UK public health researchers say 120,000 people died under Tory austerity independent.co.uk/news/health/to… 18/
#1yrago What Police Get When They Get Your Phone pluralistic.net/2021/11/16/cop…
#1yrago Live Nation is to blame for the Astroworld deaths pluralistic.net/2021/11/17/do-…
#1yrago Aspiration's comprehensively deceptive greenwashing pluralistic.net/2021/11/17/do-… 19/
Tuesday's threads: Tracers in the Dark; and more!
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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… 21/
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… 22/
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/ 23/
Upcoming appearances:
* @library_futures Webinar, 11/17
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
* Chokepoint Capitalism at @ThePeale Museum (Baltimore), 11/18:
thepeale.org/event/book-tal…
* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
news.sky.com/bigideaslive 24/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Kim Stanley Robinson's Gold Coast (California Book Club), Nov 22
altaonline.com/california-boo…
* Conversation with @Superwuster, #Informed22/@knightfdn (Miami), 11/30:
informed22.interkinnect.com 25/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 26/
Recent appearances:
* @teamhumanshow interview
teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-c…
* How big tech traps consumers and shafts creators (@IrishTimes)
shows.acast.com/inside-politic…
* Copyright Waffle (@UKCopyrightLit)
soundcloud.com/user-243274189… 27/
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