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Cory Doctorow COW-CLICKER MENTALITY

17 Nov, 22 tweets, 17 min read

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Aspiration's comprehensively deceptive greenwashing; Live Nation is to blame for the Astroworld deaths; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/17/do-…

#Pluralistic 1/

@Article19org

Tomorrow (Thu), I'll be appearing on @Article19org's EU webinar on the Digital Services Act and interop (0830PT):

zoom.us/webinar/regist…

And hosting the launch for @happierman and J9andIf's "You Feel It Just Below the Ribs" (1200PT):

keplers.org/upcoming-event… 2/

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1461058695027118089

Aspiration's comprehensively deceptive greenwashing: It's "do well" OR "do good."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1461058695027118089

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1461069906271682574

Live Nation is to blame for the Astroworld deaths: Monopoly kills fandom, literally.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1461069906271682574

#15yrsago Ballmer: Linux users are patent-crooks web.archive.org/web/2006112123…

#15yrsago Paramount/MPAA: it’s illegal to put DVDs on iPods web.archive.org/web/2006111911… 5/

#10yrsago Sustainable Materials: indispensable, impartial popular engineering book on the future of our built and made world memex.craphound.com/2011/11/17/sus… 6/

#10yrsago New Zealand Prime Minister sends police to raid major news outlets over covert recording of negotiations with far-right party rnz.co.nz/news/election-… 7/

#10yrsago Wire creator to atty gen’l: “Thanks for your interest in another season; end the war on drugs and we’ll talk” web.archive.org/web/2014013106…

#5yrsago Iphones secretly send your call history to Apple’s cloud, even after you tell them not to theintercept.com/2016/11/17/iph… 8/

#5yrsago Superstar academic economists charge $1000+/hr to defend disastrous corporate megamergers propublica.org/article/these-… 9/

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1460672181357137925

Yesterday's threads: What Police Get When They Get Your Phone; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1460672181357137925

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@darkdel

My latest book 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… 11/

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:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 12/

@torbooks

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."

craphound.com/shop/ 13/

@Article19org

Upcoming appearances:

* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA: How to protect free expression, create competition and empower users all at once (@Article19org), Nov 18
zoom.us/webinar/regist… 14/

@happierman

Upcoming appearances:

* Launch for @happierman and J9andIf's "You Feel It Just Below the Ribs" (@Keplers), Nov 18
keplers.org/upcoming-event…

* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego @Comic_Con), Nov 28
eventeny.com/events/comicco… 15/

@intgovforum

Upcoming appearances:

* @intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20… 16/

@BridgeTales

Recent appearances:

* Move Fast and Fix Things (AaronSwartzDay)

* @BridgeTales:
buzzsprout.com/1795352/9527530

* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):
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@MCRockefeller

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 @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 18/

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@Medium

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.

My latest Medium column is Jam To-Day: Liberating Big Tech's hostages on day one"

medium.com/@doctorow/jam-… 20/

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It's obviously grotesque to pick a "worst thing" about the #Astroworld catastrophe that killed ten people (including a young child), but it's pretty easy to pick a "most enraging thing" about the disaster - how foreseeable and preventable it was. 1/

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The kind of crowd-crush that killed and maimed those Astroworld attendees happens all the time. There was another stampede *at the Astrodome, two weeks previous*, at a Playboi Carti show.

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