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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Unions are finally fighting two-tier contracts; McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/25/str…

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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

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Unions are finally fighting two-tier contracts: How the actual fuck did they fail to see through this bullshit decades ago?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1463924307688579078

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McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge: Leaked slides document the lies, sleaze and profiteering.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1463938403351908352

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#5yrsago The only person to go to prison for a string of corporate pollution scandals was a crusading scientist who exposed them theintercept.com/2016/11/25/did… 5/

#5yrsago The neoliberal politicians who impeached Brazil’s president and took over are imploding in spectacular corruption scandals bbc.com/news/world-lat…

#5yrsago If blue-collar workers want better jobs, they need unions, not Trump thenation.com/article/archiv… 6/

#5yrsago Giving companies more money (loans, tax-breaks) only increases investor payouts, not expansion thenewinquiry.com/disgorge-the-c…

#5yrsago Wells Fargo says that its customers gave up right to sue by having their signatures forged reuters.com/article/us-wel… 7/

#1yrago Random Penguin to buy Simon & Schuster pluralistic.net/2020/11/25/the…

#1yrago Office 365 spies on employees for bosses pluralistic.net/2020/11/25/the… 8/

Yesterday's threads: Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords; The Tesla-financial complex; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1463594538505846790

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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… 10/

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… 11/

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:

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

* Redistribute the Internet (@NGIForward Summit), Nov 30
summit.ngi.eu/programme#day2

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

cra-brusselsconference.com 13/

Recent appearances:

* NFTs (@UpstreamPodcast)
soundcloud.com/upstreampodcas…

* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-@USTPC):
acm.org/public-policy/…

* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA:
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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 @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

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