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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (AFK) Profile picture
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Dec 5, 2022 • 21 tweets • 21 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Monopoly's event-horizon; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/05/eld…

#Pluralistic 1/ A NASA rendering entitled 'Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apar
It's @EFF Power Up Your Donation Week! Through tomorrow, 12/6, online donations to EFF get an automatic 2X match. I'm a donor!

eff.org/power-up 2/
Today (Dec 5) at 18hET, I'll be at @Northeastern's @BurnesCenter in #Boston to talk about @RGibli's and my book *Chokepoint Capitalism* with the @NU_CAMD:

eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c…

It's also a webcast:

northeastern.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 3/
My publisher @TorBooks and @Goodreads are drawing for a giveaway of advance copies of my next novel, "Red Team Blues," a Silicon Valley forensic accounting thriller about a cryptocurrency heist - If you're in the US or Canada, enter here to win a copy:

goodreads.com/giveaway/show/… 4/
Monopoly's event-horizon: The true capitalist singularity.

5/ Image: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (modified) CC BY
Hey look at this

* Cory Doctorow Wants You to Know What Computers Can and Can’t Do newyorker.com/culture/the-ne…

* Hoarding Center Clutter Image Rating hoardingdisordersuk.org/wp-content/upl… (h/t Tom Whitwell)

* Credit cards as a legacy system bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/credit… 6/
#20yrsago Stupid copyright claims? Just ask web.archive.org/web/2003022309…

#20yrsago 20k-50k WiFi hotspots coming web.archive.org/web/2002120602…

#20yrsago @ShermanOakes1 on ICANN’s corruption web.archive.org/web/2002121918…

#15yrsago @SFWA’s farting rainbows tee whatever.scalzi.com/2007/12/05/sff… 7/
#10yrsago Translating plutocrat economic campaign-speak into plain English nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/the-ob…

#10yrsago Major studios send legal threats to Google demanding removal of links to their own Facebook pages and more torrentfreak.com/movie-studios-… 8/
#10yrsago Computer classes should teach regular expressions to kids theguardian.com/technology/201…

#10yrsago UN’s International Telecommunications Union sets out to standardize bulk surveillance of Internet users by oppressive governments cdt.org/insights/adopt… 9/
#10yrsago Open, CC-licensed photo course draws up to 35,000 students bbc.com/news/in-pictur…

#1yrsago When you hear "one size fits all," think "universal": The origins and expansion of a right-wing shibboleth pluralistic.net/2021/12/05/uni… 10/
Saturday's threads: The urinary tract infection business-model; and more!

11/ Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wi
My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 12/
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:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 13/
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."

craphound.com/shop/ 14/
Upcoming appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism: A Conversation/@Northeastern/@BurnesCenter/@NU_CAMD (Boston/webcast), 12/5
eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c… 15/
* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (New Orleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 16/
Recent appearances:

* @BridgeTales (with @seananmcguire)
talesfromthebridge.buzzsprout.com/1795352/117887…

* @if_this_goes_on
itgodp.libsyn.com/chokepoint-cap…

* @NewBooksNetwork
newbooksnetwork.com/chokepoint-cap… 17/
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/2022/12/05/eld… 18/
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 "Yes, It’s Censorship: Stop picking that nit, it’ll never heal."

doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-censor… 19/
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

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Last weekend, I was at @Defcon 32, where I had the privilege of giving a talk: "Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification."

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Walmart didn't just *happen*. The rise of Walmart - and Amazon, its online successor - was the result of a specific policy choice, the decision by the Reagan administration not to enforce a key antitrust law.

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Walmart may have been founded by Sam Walton, but its success (and the demise of the American Main Street) are down to Reaganomics.

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