Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal; and more!
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Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal: Exhibit A for the prosecution.
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* Freely readable 2023 #NebulaAwards nominees superpunch.net/2023/03/links-…
* Why Weren't #SiliconValleyBank Depositors Using CDARS? creditslips.org/creditslips/20…
* Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the net's ‘#enshittification’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 3/
#20yrsago #Vonage reviewed mindjack.com/gear/vonage.ht…
#10yrsago Why Tim Berners-Lee is wrong about #DRM in #HTML5 theguardian.com/technology/blo…
#10yrsago Random House reconsiders and improves the standard contracts in its new ebook imprints writerbeware.blog/2013/03/12/ran… 4/
#10yrsago #LibDems leave over support for secret trials; I resign from the party memex.craphound.com/2013/03/12/lib…
#10yrsago Proposed Maryland anti-zero-tolerance law would tell schools to stop suspending kids who point their fingers at each other and say “bang” freerangekids.com/right-to-bear-… 5/
#10yrsago Porno-copyright trolls #PrendaLaw get hauled in front of a very angry judge techdirt.com/2013/03/11/dee…
#10yrsago Using clips from Ed Sullivan in Jersey Boys found to be #FairUse; judges award costs to deter future “chilling” copyright lawsuits web.archive.org/web/2013031411… 6/
#10yrsago Hacking the Xbox, free in honor of @aaronsw nostarch.com/xboxfree
#10yrsago Scowler: nightmare-fuel horror novel about a monstrous father memex.craphound.com/2013/03/12/sco… 7/
#5yrsago America, before the #EPA: the photos that the EPA commissioned to document the conditions that led to its formation popsci.com/america-before…
#1yrago A systemic (not individual) approach to #ContentModeration pluralistic.net/2022/03/12/mov… 8/
Yesterday's threads: Excuseflation; and more!
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
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Signed copies available from @BookSoup:
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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:
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, 3/20
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* @iftf Changing the Register, 3/22
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
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* Red Team Blues at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
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Recent appearances:
* @RuBlackListNET Privacy Day
* Factually With @adamconover:
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* Making Big Tech Better vs Making it Smaller (@BruxConf2023):
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My latest Medium column is "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"
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