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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Sep 24, 2022 • 29 tweets • 29 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Billionaire grifters hate her; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/24/shi…

#Pluralistic 1/
#SanFrancisco! I'm in town tomorrow with "Chokepoint Capitalism," @rgibli's and my latest book!

sfpl.org/events/2022/09…

Next stop, #LA (Sept 27): booksoup.com/event/cory-doc… 2/
If you can't make it and want a signed, personalized copy shipped to your door, our friends at @FolioSF have you covered:

foliosf.com/chokepointcapi… 3/
Billionaire grifters hate her: Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Ida M Tarbell.

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Hey look at this

* Oh, you like Leonard Cohen? Name 3 of his songs that have securitized as collateral against Blackstone debt (h/t @YvesSmith) 5/
Hey look at this (cont'd)

* The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services Get access Arrow academic.oup.com/qje/article-ab… (h/t Fipi Lele) 6/
Hey look at this (cont'd)

* GEICO Tells Workers They Have ‘Right to Contact Police’ If Union Organizers Visit Their House vice.com/amp/en/article… (h/t @YvesSmith) 7/
#20yrsago @therealjanisian interviewed on @Slashdot news.slashdot.org/story/02/09/23…

#20yrsago Warchalking FAQ by @AaronSw web.archive.org/web/2002092502…

#20yrsago Roman chariots responsible for Space Shuttle design constraints web.archive.org/web/2002100403… 8/
#20yrsago Science fiction writers help the CIA wired.com/2002/10/i-foug…

#15yrsago Police can retroactively bug your phone for your breadcrumb trail wired.com/2007/09/is-tha…

#15yrsago Debate: Pixel-Stained Technopeasants Versus Webscabs trashotron.com/agony/news/200… 9/
#15yrsago My column on fixing cellphones by killing the carriers web.archive.org/web/2007101107…

#15yrsago Ha'penny, @BlueJoWalton's haunting thriller about an alternate British Reich memex.craphound.com/2007/09/24/hap… 10/
#15yrsago Cory Doctorow cosplayers at the @XKCD picnic flickr.com/photos/miserlo…

#10yrsago A report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports gao.gov/products/gao-1… 11/
#10yrsago How DRM screws people with visual disabilities: a report from the front lines zdnet.com/article/going-…

#10yrsago Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds web.archive.org/web/2013073016… 12/
#10yrsago Copyright lobbyists secretly engineering clawback of Canadian user rights web.archive.org/web/2012102819…

#10yrsago Time-Warner Cable pisses off two Starship Enterprise Captains on two coasts 13/
#10yrsago @MollyCrabapple describes and illustrates her Occupy arrest cnn.com/2012/09/22/opi…

#5yrsago Saudi history textbook features photo of King Faisal chilling with Yoda telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/2… 14/
#5yrsago The Spider Network, a novelistic account of the mediocre rich men who robbed the world with Libor memex.craphound.com/2017/09/24/the…

#1yrago Demonopolizing the internet with interoperability: My op-ed in the Communications of the ACM pluralistic.net/2021/09/24/com… 15/
#1yrago The music monopolists: Thinking outside the antitrust box pluralistic.net/2021/09/23/rem…

#1yrago The Halloween Moon: A YA novel from Nightvale creator @PlanetofFinks pluralistic.net/2021/09/23/rem… 16/
Thursday's threads: Twitch does a chokepoint capitalism; 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… 18/
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… 19/
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/ 20/
Upcoming appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism, SFPL (San Francisco), 9/25
sfpl.org/events/2022/09…

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

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @AltaJournal Live (Zoom), 9/28
altaonline.com/events/a411093… 21/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Discussing "Adventure Capitalism" with @RayCraib, @SkylightBooks (LA), 9/29
blog.pmpress.org/events/raymond…

* #OnlinePublicSphere2022, 10/3
globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/events/regulat…

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @BooksandBooks (Miami), 10/12
booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso… 22/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
libraryjournal.com/event/library-…

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/registration

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/s… 23/
Recent appearances:

* Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (@MachineKillsPod)
soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

* Billionaires As Policy Failure Factories (@CheeseMacro)
realprogressives.org/podcast_episod…

* Where’s My Privacy? (@myjetpackca)
wheresmyjetpack.ca/2022/09/14/doc… 24/
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… 25/
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/2022/09/24/shi… 26/
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 "Doing the Work: How to Write When You Suck

doctorow.medium.com/doing-the-work… 27/
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 28/
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/web/@pluralist… 29/

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Delta's announced new surveillance pricing: they're feeding an AI your nonconsensually harvested personal info that data-brokers and credit bureaux hold to predict the maximum you're willing to pay, and then price their tickets accordingly:



1/ fortune.com/2025/07/16/del…Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjurer,' which depicts a sleight-of-hand artist doing a cup-and-balls routine for a group of amazed yokels. It has been altered. The head of the conjurer has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' He wears a Delta Airlines logo over his breast. The table on which the cup-and-balls game is playing out sports a crashed jet in Delta livery, smoke rising from the wreckage. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Data-brokers sell all kinds of data, from the "legitimate" info about everywhere your car's been, to everywhere place the Bluetooth radios on your phone and headphones has been, to everything you've bought, to every sit you've visited and every search you've performed.

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Jul 22
Ever notice how many right wing influencers are on the grift?

1/ A carny barker at a podium, gesticulating with a MAGA cap. He wears a Klan hood, and his podium features products from Nu-skin, Amway and Herbalife. Behind him is an oil-painted scene of a steamship with a Trump Tower logo, at a pier in flames.
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Jul 3
As fascism burns across America, it's important to remember that Trump and his policies are *not popular*.

1/ A kneeling figure, shackled hand-and-foot with ball-and-chains at his ankles. His face is that of a turn-of-the-century newsie, grinning broadly under a torn cloth cap. Behind him is a heavily halftoned neon HELP WANTED sign, askew over a indistinct black hellscape ganked from the third panel of Boschs's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'
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Jul 1
If there's one are where tech has shown a consistent aptitude for innovation, it's in accounting tricks that make money-losing companies appear wildly profitable. And AI is the greatest innovator of all (when it comes to accounting gimmicks).

1/ A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Jun 28
In 2014, I read a political science paper that nearly convinced me to quit my lifelong career as an activist: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens," published in *Perspectives on Politics*:



1/ cambridge.org/core/journals/…An inflatable pig balloon against a blue sky, bearing the Zohran for Mayor logo. The Chrysler Building sits to one side. Image: Frank Vincentz (modified) https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geeste_-_Biener_Stra%C3%9Fe_-_Speicherbecken_-_Drachenfest_38_ies.jpg Petri Krohn https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysler_building-_top.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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The paper's authors are Martin Gilens, a UCLA professor of Public Policy; and Northwestern's Benjamin Page, a professor of Decision Making. Gilens and Page studied a representative sample of 1,779 policy issues.

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Jun 24
When a company sells you something for $2 that someone else can buy for $1, they're revaluing the dollars in your pocket at half the rate of the other guy's.

1/ A busy 1950s grocery store. The scene has been altered: the massive, menacing, glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' hovers over the store, shooting red beams into the cash register. The store -- but not the shoppers at its front -- is suffused with red light. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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