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Cory Doctorow PLASTIC FANTASTIC MENTALITY

@doctorow

24 Nov

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords; The Tesla-financial complex; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-…

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@Comic_Con

Are you going to San Diego @Comic_Con? Me too!

* I'll be signing at the @MystGalaxyBooks Booth (#1325) on Sunday from 12-12:45PM

* And I'll be on a panel, The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right, on Sunday from 1:30-230PM

eventeny.com/events/comicco… 2/

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Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords: When margins and misery are correlated.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1463580128202612739

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Cory Doctorow PLASTIC FANTASTIC MENTALITY

@doctorow

24 Nov

@RobinWigg

Elon Musk is the richest man on Earth and $TSLA is worth more than a trillion dollars. What the fuck is going on? In @RobinWigg's phrase: it's the #TeslaFinancialComplex at work:

ft.com/content/17f0cd… 1/

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What's a "Tesla-financial complex?" Well, Tesla is only tertiarily a car-maker (which may explain why the company is so indifferent to QA for its vehicles and the safety of its workers). 3/

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Cory Doctorow PLASTIC FANTASTIC MENTALITY

@doctorow

24 Nov

One of the original sins of the modern economy was sidelining unions and social programs as a path to upward mobility and installing property speculation in their place. 1/

Converting the distribution of shelter (a human right and necessity) into a speculative asset had far-reaching consequences, and an eventual violent rupture was baked in from the start. 2/

A path to prosperity runs through the appreciation of your family home (not through wage-gains and access to education, health-care and pensions) recruits a vast army of everyday wage-earners who will fight for any policy that pushes up real-estate values. 3/

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Cory Doctorow PLASTIC FANTASTIC MENTALITY

@doctorow

23 Nov

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The definitive answers to Disney's pernicious queueing debates; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/23/jum…

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@DarkDel

I'm going overseas for work on Dec 7, which means time to order signed/personalized copies of my books from @DarkDel is running out!

Attack Surface:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

Little Brother/Homeland:
darkdel.com/store/p1750/Co… 2/

How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Co…

Poesy the Monster Slayer:
darkdel.com/store/p1562/_P… 3/

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Cory Doctorow PLASTIC FANTASTIC MENTALITY

@doctorow

23 Nov

Last summer, I wrote a six-part series on the history, future and present-day of queue- and crowd-management strategies at Disney themeparks, summarizing my endless reading, rumination, and direct experience on the question.

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Who gets to do what and when at a themepark may sound like a trivial question, but it's a perfect little microcosm for the distributional problems that are at the heart of all political economy - questions that the pandemic's shortages and shocks threw into stark relief. 3/

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