Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Charter schools are money laundries; Disney parks and aggregate demand management; Oregon's carbon offsets go up in smoke; Surge pricing violates antitrust law; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/agg…

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Charter schools are money laundries: "The hidden world of charter schools operated for financial gain."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1419683443013611522

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Disney parks and aggregate demand management: My ongoing series on Medium, for an age of supply shocks.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1419689975163936781

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Oregon's carbon offsets go up in smoke: The Bootleg Fire is more evidence that markets can't solve the climate emergency.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1419707824444088338

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Surge pricing violates antitrust law: Even the weaksauce version pushed by the econ establishment.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1419735720902594577

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#10yrsago Patent trolls and shakedowns: Intellectual Ventures and the “little guy” npr.org/sections/money…

#10yrsago Ousted EMI boss: pirates are our best customers, suing is bad for business torrentfreak.com/former-google-…

#5yrsago globalvoices.org/2016/07/26/so-…

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#5yrsago Textiles printed directly from sewer covers raubdruckerin.de/en/

#1yrago Green Growth pluralistic.net/2020/07/26/fie…

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July 16th's threads: Interop and the Public Interest Internet; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1416079375422824449

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Privacy Without Monopoly, @Defcon 29, Aug 7
defcon.org/html/defcon-29…

* Keynote speaker, The Quills Conference, Aug 12-15
quillsconference.com

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Recent appearances:

Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset…

* Trustbusting (@NicoleSandler)


* Launch for @Unshavedmouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks):
crowdcast.io/e/virtual-even…

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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

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

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My latest @Medium column is "Now you’ve got two problems," part three of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.

doctorow.medium.com/now-youve-got-…

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @[e-mail].

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Today's top sources: @LenTesta (twitter.com/lentesta), @JWZ (jwz.org/blog/).

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