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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Sep 14, 2022 • 25 tweets • 24 min read • Read on X
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Inside: The Chokepoint Capitalism tour; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/14/mea…

#Pluralistic 1/ A photo of me giving a talk...
I'm Kickstarting a DRM-free audiobook of Chokepoint Capitalism, the book @rgibli and I wrote about how tech- and entertainment monopolies rip off artists, and how to unrig those terrible labor markets:

kickstarter.com/projects/docto…

("This book really gets it" - @stephenfry) 2/
The Chokepoint Capitalism tour: Ottawa, Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles (and beyond!)

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Hey look at this

* @xkcd Is Back to Answer Your Impossible Questions wired.com/story/randall-…

* Idaho’s Far Right Suffers Election Loss to 18-Year-Old Climate Activist theintercept.com/2022/09/13/ida…

* What Do Aliens Eat? gastropod.com/what-do-aliens… 4/ Image
#20yrsago BNL endorse Jack Layton web.archive.org/web/2002091306…

#15yrsago New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux memex.craphound.com/2007/09/14/new…

#10yrsago Fan art and copyright presentation from ComicCon 5/ Image
#10yrsago Canadian mint claims copyright over pictures of pennies web.archive.org/web/2012091302…

#10yrsago Librarian tattoos mentalfloss.com/article/56189/…

#5yrsago EVE Online doublecross is biggest in game history, blowing up $20K+ worth of game assets kotaku.com/how-eve-player… 6/ Image
#5yrsago Justin Trudeau promised reconciliation with indigenous peoples of Canada, but has not delivered cbc.ca/news/opinion/r…

#5yrsago Newark customs officers “hazed” new hires on a “rape table” in a locked room cnn.com/2017/09/13/pol… 7/ Image
#5yrsago Equifax has terrible information security practices, and that resulted in multiple breaches arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago @xychelsea: we’re spied on all the time, and the state still can’t figure out who we are nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opi… 8/ Image
#5yrsago Trump’s ethics office reverses policy, will allow anonymous donors to fund White House employees’ legal defense politico.com/story/2017/09/…

#5yrsago @Snowden: Public money shouldn’t fund software the public isn’t allowed to fix 9/ Image
#5yrsago Chinese economists say Big Data can replace markets in planned economies jstor.org/stable/10.1316…

#5yrsago Canada’s Mounties use a 6-year-old “interim policy” to justify warrantless mass surveillance vice.com/en/article/yw3… 10/ Image
#5yrsago The financial crisis created a precariat army of RV-nomad seniors who serve as Amazon’s seasonal workers wired.com/story/meet-cam… 11/ Image
Yesterday's threads: Survival of the Richest; and more!

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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… 13/
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… 14/ Image
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/ 15/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

* Canadians Connected (Ottawa), 9/15
member.cira.ca/Events/Canadia…

* Chokepoint Capitalism, @typebooks Junction (Toronto), 9/16, 7PM
eventbrite.ca/e/chokepoint-c…

* Chokepoint Capitalism, @mcnallyjackson (NYC), Sept 19, 7PM
mcnallyjackson.com/event/rebecca-… 16/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), 9/21-23
live.unfinished.com

* Chokepoint Capitalism with @reckless, @NYUEngelberg (NYC) 9/23, 7PM
eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c…

* Chokepoint Capitalism, SFPL (San Francisco), 9/25
sfpl.org/events/2022/09… 17/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism, @BookSoup (LA), 9/27
booksoup.com/event/cory-doc…

* Discussing "Adventure Capitalism" with @raycraib, @skylightbooks (LA), Sept 29
blog.pmpress.org/events/raymond…

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org 18/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/s… 19/ Image
Recent appearances:

* Where’s My Privacy? (@myjetpackca)
wheresmyjetpack.ca/2022/09/14/doc…

* Launch for @motherboard's Terraform antho
vice.com/en/article/3ad…

* Crypto and the Left (@TBSocialist)
theblockchainsocialist.com/crypto-and-the… 20/ Image
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… 21/ Image
You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2022/09/14/mea… 22/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Sound Money: The best money is social, not personal"

doctorow.medium.com/sound-money-28… 23/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🧙🏻". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 24/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 25/

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May 17
As a science fiction writer, I find it weird that some sf tropes - like space colonization - have become culture-war touchstones. You know, that whole "we were promised jetpacks" thing.

1/ A cartoon image of a jetpack-flying man waves hello at a gap-toothed, awed young boy. Beneath them in the corner, a sinister figure with huge, hypnotic-spiral eyes works the switches on an imposing control panel. On his desk is a copy of Amazing Stories with the same rocketeer. In the image background is a faded, halftoned image of the NYC 1964 World's Fair.
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I confess, I never looked too hard at the practicalities of jetpacks, because they are so obviously either used as a visual shorthand (as in the Jetsons) or as a metaphor.

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May 16
Residents of 21 Utah cities have some of the fastest, cheapest broadband in the country, at speeds up to 10gb/s and prices as low as $75/mo. It's uncapped, and the connections are symmetrical: perfect for uploading *and* downloading. And it's all thanks to the government.

1/ The cover of the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas More's 'Utopia.' It has been altered to add a glowing halo of fiber optics around the central tower. The Penguin logo has been replaced with the beehive from the Utah state flag. Image: 4028mdk09 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rote_LED_Fiberglasleuchte.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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Of course this is delivered via fiber optic. Fiber is vastly superior to all other forms of broadband, including satellites, but also cable and DSL. Fiber caps out at 100tb/s, while cable caps out at 50gb/s - fiber is *1,000* times faster:



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May 13
When it comes to AI art (or "art"), it's hard to find a nuanced position that respects creative workers' labor rights, free expression, copyright law's vital exceptions and limitations, and aesthetics.

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I am, on balance, opposed to AI art, but there are some important caveats to that position. For starters, I think it's unequivocally wrong - as a matter of law - to say that scraping works and training a model with them infringes copyright.

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May 11
Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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May 9
Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people.

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The "Tragedy" hoax said that moving land from collective ownership "rescued" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who cared for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":



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May 6
Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

1/ A hand depositing a ballot in a perspex ballot box on a black background. The box is full of yellow-green piss and the ballot features an angry robot made from Amazon boxes and the phrase 'I am not a robot.' The box has an Amazon logo across its top. Image: Isabela.Zanella (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballot-box-2.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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But *unsubscribing* from Prime? That's a fucking *nightmare*. Somehow the company that can easily figure out how to sign up for a service is totally baffled when it comes to making it just as easy to leave.

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