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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
@doctorow
Oct 14, 2022 • 19 tweets • 16 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Medieval Times invents a modern union-busting tactic; Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/14/com…

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Next Monday (Oct 17), I'll be presenting remotely to @copyrightcentre's Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures conference in Glasgow:

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Medieval Times invents a modern union-busting tactic: Trademark, like all "IP," is a tool to control critics, customers and competitors.

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Billionaire dilettantes vs good Democrats: Even the best Democratic candidate is no match for the worst Republican when wealthy "Democratic" donors meddle.

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Hey look at this

* Centuries of Sound: 1943 centuriesofsound.com/2022/10/06/194…

* End-to-End Encryption and Messaging Interoperability educatedguesswork.org/posts/messagin… 5/ Image
#15yrsago Irish bureaucrats raided personal info database for blackmail, burglary, and curiosity independent.ie/irish-news/civ…

#10yrsago Accused of infringement? AT&;T will take away YouTube and Facebook and send you to Copyright Reeducation Gulag torrentfreak.com/att-starts-six… 6/ Image
Yesterday's threads: US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care; and more!

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

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Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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My latest novel 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 ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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:

* Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures – @copyrightcentre (Glasgow), Oct 17
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* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), Oct 23
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* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
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* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), Nov 10
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* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:

* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use coupon code "Doctorow" for a free month):
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* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)


* Canadians Connected with @ambermac:
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Happy #SpookySeason! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by @mcrockefeller.

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My latest Medium column is "Bankruptcy protects fake people, brutalizes real ones"

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There was never any question as to whether Trump would implement Project 2025, the 900-page brick of terrifying, unhinged policy prescriptions edited by the Heritage Foundation. He would *not* implement it, because he *could* not implement it. No one could. It's impossible.

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Dec 18
Running a business is risky: you can't be sure how many customers you'll have, or what they'll ask for. Guess wrong and you'll either have too few workers for the crowd, or you'll pay workers to stand around. This is true even when your "business" is a "hospital."

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Dec 12
Postmortems and blame for the 2024 elections are thick on the ground, but amidst all those theories and pointed fingers, one explanation looms large and credible: the American housing emergency. If the system can't put a roof over your head, that system needs to go.

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Dec 6
After 9/11, we were told that "no cost was too high" when it came to fighting terrorism, and indeed, the US did blow *trillions* on forever wars and regime change projects and black sites and kidnappings and dronings and gulags that were supposed to end terrorism.

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The Canadian national identity involves a lot of sneering at the US, but when it comes to oligarchy, Canada makes America look positively amateurish.

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The Biden administration disappointed, frustrated and enraged in so many ways, including abetting a genocide - but one consistent bright spot over the past four years was the unseen-for-generations frontal assault on corporate power and corporate corruption.

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