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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Dec 8, 2022 • 23 tweets • 20 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/08/one…

#Pluralistic 1/ The Google 'Googleplex' office by night. It has been split i
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:

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One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct: Remember when corporate raiders broke companies up?

3/ Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/1
Hey look at this

* Ellen Harding Baker's “Solar System” Quilt (1876–ca. 1883) publicdomainreview.org/collection/sol…

* We Must Fight for a Better America. We Have No Choice newrepublic.com/article/168881…

* A year of new avenues robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenue… (h/t David Johnson) 4/
#20yrsago Email that won’t travel more than 500 miles copytechnet.com/forums/archive…

#20yrsago Tied to a tree for failing to pay utility bills in Azerbaijan rferl.org/a/1079243.html 5/
#10yrsago Pret fires longstanding employee who attempted to unionise, asked for the London Living Wage for all employees

#10yrsago Sony ceases production on cassette player/recorders web.archive.org/web/2012120903… 6/
#5yrsago Square dancing was a racist hoax funded by Henry Ford to get white people to stop dancing to black music 7/
#5yrsago @AjitPai says an informed public (not Net Neutrality) will discipline ISPs (BTW, he’s also killing the rules forcing ISPs to inform the public) arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 8/
#5yrsago Here are some of the lavish, lobbyist-funded parties that Congress and the Trump administration will attend this month theintercept.com/2017/12/08/con…

#5yrsago Share of national wealth held by America’s 1% hits 50-year high washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2… 9/
#5yrsago Bosses seed Silicon Valley Christmas parties with models who impersonate fellow employees, after briefing them with back-stories bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 10/
#5yrsago Congressman Trent Franks [R-AZ] resigns amidst accusations that he pressured his female staff to bear his children as surrogate mothers nymag.com/intelligencer/…

#1yrago How elite hobbies let billionaires pay no tax pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/req… 11/
#1yrago Broken Promises: The Writers Guild of America West makes the case for media un-consolidation pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/req…

#1yrago All the books I reviewed in 2021 pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/req… 12/
Yesterday's threads: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead'; and more!

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

chokepointcapitalism.com

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:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 15/
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:

* 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… 17/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 18/
Recent appearances:

* Plurality and democracy with @AudreyT (Liberté! Talks)


* Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (@ClearerPodcast)
clearerthinkingpodcast.com/episode/135

* @bubtroubpodcast (Part 1)
bubbletroublepodcast.com/chokepoint-cap… 19/
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/2022/12/08/one… 20/
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… 21/
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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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Five years ago, Trump touted his "big, beautiful" replacement for NAFTA, the "free trade agreement" between the US, Mexico and Canada. Trump's NAFTA-2 was called the USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada Agreement) and it was pretty similar to NAFTA, to be honest.

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That tells you a couple things: first, NAFTA was, broadly speaking a good thing for Trump and the ultra-wealthy donors who backed him (and got far richer as a result). That's why he kept it intact.

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Jan 14
During the Napster wars, the record labels *seriously* pissed off millions of internet users when they sued over 19,000 music fans, mostly kids, but also grannies, old people, and dead people.

1/ A multiton bank vault door set in a red room. Within the vault, we see a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. In front of the fault is a ghoulish, skull-faced figure in a tailcoat and a red sash, holding a tube that is vomiting out a poorly differentiated stream of rubbish and slop.
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It's hard to overstate how badly the labels behaved. Like, there was the Swarthmore student who was the maintainer of a free/open source search engine that indexed files available in public sharepoints on the LAN.

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Jan 11
The social function of the economics profession is to explain, over and over again, that your boss is actually right and that you don't really want the things you want, and you're secretly happy to be abused by the system.

1/ A Soviet propaganda poster depicting two workers holding flags in front of a locomotive. The flags have been replaced with US flags. The locomotive's face has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The maxim below has been replaced with the lettering from a Walmart 'everyday low prices' sign. The background has been replaced with a posterized grocery aisle. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao (modified) ht...
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If that wasn't true, why would your "choose" commercial surveillance, abusive workplaces and other depredations?

In other words, economics is the "look what you made me do" stick that capitalism uses to beat us with.

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Jan 9
My next novel is *Picks and Shovels*, out next month. It's tells the origin story of Martin Hench, my hard-charging, scambusting, high-tech forensic accountant, in a 1980s battle over the soul of a PC company:



1/ us.macmillan.com/books/97812508…A remix of the cover of the Tor Books edition of 'Picks and Shovels,' depicting a vector art vintage PC, whose blue screen includes a male figure stepping out of the picture to the right. Superimposed on the art is the book's title in a custom, modernist font.
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Inside: The Brave Little Toaster; and more!

Archived at:

#Pluralistic

1/ pluralistic.net/2025/01/08/sir…A deluxe mid-century fridge, its double-doors swung wide to reveal many groceries. Before it stands a demon, suspending a screaming man by the hair from one taloned hand. One of the fridge's panels has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' In the background is a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. 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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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.

1/ A WWII-era infirmary with two ranks of beds. Behind a bed on each side stands an outraged Tweedledee/Tweedledum figure from Tenniel's Alice Through the Looking Glass engravings, pulling their hair; they face one another. One is tinted green; the other, blue. Between them in the aisle stands an elephant in GOP livery, wearing a Trump wig. A spatter of blood climbs the wall on the right.
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