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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: At the FTC, a quiet, profound shift on antitrust; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/res…

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This Thursday (May 12), I'm participating in an @imaginationASU workshop called "The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech"

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At the FTC, a quiet, profound shift on antitrust: Listening to "those who have experienced firsthand the effects of mergers and acquisitions beyond antitrust experts."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1523610976104460291

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Hey look at this

* Ben Franklin’s Abortion Recipe slate.com/news-and-polit… ("deeply rooted" h/t @yvessmith)

* Fuck Nfts Shirt tiotee.com/product/fuck-n…

* Why I, As a Libertarian, Think You’re Silly To Worry About Your So-Called Abortion Rights edroso.substack.com/p/why-i-as-a-l… 4/

#20yrsago Virus infects worm web.archive.org/web/2002080320…

#20yrsago Why Freenet? Why now? web.archive.org/web/2002080416…

#20yrsago Why secrecy sucks (digital TV DRM edition) web.archive.org/web/2002060516… 5/

#20yrsago Roll-your-own consensus and defeat the Hollyweird conspiracy memex.craphound.com/2002/05/09/rol…

#15yrsago Spider Robinson’s Hugo-winning “Melancholy Elephants” online spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelep…

#15yrsago AT&T whistle-blower interview wired.com/2007/05/spying… 6/

#15yrsago Giant coalition opposes Broadcast Treaty keionline.org/misc-docs/Stmt…

#15yrsago India trying to save the world from yoga patentshttps://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/opinion/07mehta.html

#15yrago BBC recruits Microsoft DRM exec web.archive.org/web/2007052309… 7/

#10yrsago RIP, Maurice Sendak theguardian.com/books/2012/may…

#10yrsago Welcome to your 2012 election season, let the suppression of political debate begin. eff.org/deeplinks/2012…

#10yrsago German Pirate Party wins seats in a third regional election techdirt.com/2012/05/07/pir… 8/

#10yrsago Why Tech Review is ditching its iPad edition web.archive.org/web/2012051003…

#10yrsago Geekdad on Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow wired.com/2012/05/cory-d… 9/

#10yrsago Buying DVDs just got worse thanks to obnoxious new anti-piracy warnings (pirating movies remains unchanged) wired.com/2012/05/anti-p…

#10yrsago Leaked DHS memo: Pornoscanners don’t work wired.com/2012/05/body-s… 10/

#10yrsago @NeilHimself on Maurice Sendak wired.com/2012/05/mauric…

#5yrsago Intel declared war on general purpose computing and lost, so now all our computers are broken memex.craphound.com/2017/05/09/int… 11/

#5yrsago John Oliver’s amazing new Net Neutrality video crashed the FCC’s website vice.com/en/article/3dx…

#1yrago How copyright filters lead to wage-theft pluralistic.net/2021/05/08/cop… 12/

Friday's threads: Safegraph follows people into abortion clinics and then sells the data; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1522911008079155202

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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:

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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:

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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:

* Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech (@imaginationASU), May 12
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* @openjsf Keynote (Austin), Jun 8
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Upcoming appearances:

* @CMAgovUK Data Technology/Analytics (London), Jun 15-16
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* A New @HOPEconf (NYC), Jul 24
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Recent appearances:

* Revolutionizing Activism — The Power of Utopia (@theC4AA)


* A Little Patience and a Lot of Tape (@TWIT)
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* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (@forlifeitself podcast)
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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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