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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Jan 13, 2023 • 19 tweets • 20 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Booklist on "Red Team Blues"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/01/13/mar…

#Pluralistic 1/
Next Weds (1/16) at 1530hPT, I'm joining my co-author @rgibli and our host, @BradStone, for an @InternetArchive/@Coil livecast about our book #ChokepointCapitalism:

youtube.com/coilhq 2/
Booklist on "Red Team Blues": "Another winner from an sf wizard who
has always proved himself adept at blending genres for both adults and teens."

3/
Hey look at this

* 25th Anniversary Edition of Little, Big, by John Crowley littlebig25.com

* ‘If you win the popular imagination, you change the game’ theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/…

* Comcast rejects poor people who qualify for free Internet arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 4/
#20yrsago Trent Latte: black coffee and steamed milk in separate but equal portions news.npr.org/programs/waitw…

#15yrsago Filmmakers use DMCA to go after negative review web.archive.org/web/2008011605… 5/
#15yrsago Ford: Car owners are pirates if they distribute pictures of their own cars web.archive.org/web/2008011522…

#15yrsago Podcast of @BruceS’s HACKER CRACKDOWN has concluded memex.craphound.com/2008/01/13/pod…

#10yrsago @AaronSw digital archive archive.org/details/aaronsw 6/
#10yrsago Expert witness describes Aaron Swartz’s “crimes” unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the…

#5yrsago Intel’s Management Engine, a secure-computer-within-your-computer, is really, really insecure press.f-secure.com/2018/01/12/int… 7/
Yesterday's threads: Good riddance to the Open Gaming License; John Deere's repair fake-out; and more!

8/
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… 9/
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… 10/
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/ 11/
Upcoming appearances:

* @InternetArchive livecast on #ChokepointCapitalism with @rgibli and @bradstone, Jan 19, 1530hPT
youtube.com/coilhq

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (#NewOrleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow 12/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Future of Arts/Culture/Tech, @ACMI, (#Melbourne), Feb 14
acmi.net.au/whats-on/in-co…

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (#Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 13/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 14/
Recent appearances:

* @majorityfm with @SamSeder
majorityreportradio.com/2023/01/09/1-9…

* @DecoderPod:
open.spotify.com/episode/6pVSj7…

* @plutopia
plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-… 15/
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/2023/01/13/mar… 16/
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 "NYT: Binding Arbitration For Thee, But Not For Me"

doctorow.medium.com/nyt-binding-ar… 17/
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 18/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered). 19/

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The problem with good news in the real world is that it's *messy*. Neat happy endings are for novels, not the real world, and that goes double for the climate emergency.

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Let's take a sec here and notice something *genuinely great* happening in the US government: the @CFPB's stunning, unbroken streak of *major*, muscular victories over the forces of corporate corruption.

1/ A 1901 cover of FAMOUS FIGHTS magazine, an engraving depicting an outdoor boxing ring in which a triumphant boxer has knocked his opponent back into the ropes. A crowd of old-fashioned men crowd around the fight and cheer. The image has been altered. It has been colorized in false watercolor tones. The head of the triumphant boxer has been replaced with a grinning Uncle Sam. The head of the vanquished boxer has been replaced with a cigar-chomping, top-hatted capitalist from a midcentury Soviet propaganda cartoon.
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Amazingly, they're doing this *with* the backing of the Supreme Court (yes, *that* Supreme Court), and they're only speeding up!

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Look, no one wants to kick Big Tech to the curb more than I do, but, also: it's *good* that Google indexes the news so people can find it, and it's *good* that Facebook provides forums where people can talk about the news.

1/ A boardroom with a long table; executives are clustered around it in 1960s garb. The table's surface has been replaced with a 19th century edition of the Manchester Guardian. The back wall of the room has been redone in Google logo color stripes. One wall features a Google logo. In the middle of the table stands a cartoon mascot with white gloves and booties and the head of a grinning poop emoji. He is striped with the four colors of the Google logo.
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It's not news if you can't find it. It's not news if you can't talk about it. We don't call information you can't find or discuss "news" - we call it "secrets."

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Noted anti-capitalist agitator Adam Smith had it right: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

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Despite being a raving commie loon, Smith's observation was so undeniably true that regulators, policymakers, and economists couldn't help but acknowledge that it was true.

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Corruption is a system of concentrated gains and diffused costs: cheaters make a lot of money, and their victims each lose a little. The cheater has a much larger pool of money to spend on keeping the scam going, and the victims need to pay *again* to fight the cheater.

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Actually, it's worse. The victim pays once when they are cheated, then, they pay a second time (in time and/or money) when they fight back against the cheater.

But in order to fight back effectively, the victims need to band together.

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The more I found out about the book, the more amazed I became. I met Ferris at that summer's San Diego Comic Con, where I learned that she had drawn it over a while recovering from paralysis of her right - dominant - hand after a West Nile Virus infection.

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