Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Eggflation is just more price-gouging; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/can…

#Pluralistic 1/

Eggflation is just more price-gouging: Cal-Maine Foods owns every egg brand you've ever heard of and its profits are up 65%.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1617625731206373391

2/

Hey look at this

* @EFF is hiring a security and privacy activist eff.org/opportunities/…

* mozilla.org's 25th anniversary jwz.org/blog/2023/01/m…

* Three Autumn Revolts: Breaking the Ice on China’s “Anti-Lockdown Movement” chuangcn.org/2023/01/three-… 3/

#20yrsago New CE lobby begs to voluntarily screw customers web.archive.org/web/2003041321…

#20yrsago @hilaryr resigns arstechnica.com/uncategorized/…

#10yrsago TARDIS dress is bigger on the inside flickr.com/photos/jere7my… 4/

#10yrsago More on “Escape From Tomorrow,” the guerrilla art-house movie shot at #WaltDisneyWorld and #Disneyland archive.nytimes.com/carpetbagger.b…

#10yrsago How the NY Daily News covered Stonewall yak.net/ian/stonewall.… 5/

#5yrsago #Trump slaps 30% #tariff on imported #solar-cells axios.com/2018/01/22/tru…

#5yrsago Governor of Montana signs executive order banning state from doing business with non-neutral ISPs techdirt.com/2018/01/23/mon… 6/

#5yrsago South Korea, gripped by suicide epidemic, criminalizes suicide-pacts web.archive.org/web/2018012312…

#5yrsago Today’s scares over smartphones are largely indistinguishable from yesterday’s technology-driven #MoralPanics wired.com/story/demonize… 7/

#5yrsago App to record sexual consent in the #blockchain will be used to discredit sexual assault survivors abovethelaw.com/2018/01/blockc… 8/

#5yrsago The inexperienced man-child frat-rat that Trump made deputy drug czar got fired from his only real job for not showing up washingtonpost.com/investigations…

#5yrsago #NHS okays hospitals and doctors storing patient data on public cloud servers zdnet.com/article/cloud-… 9/

#5yrsago New York cops furious that the union has reduced the number of “get out of jail free” cards they can give to their pals nypost.com/2018/01/21/pol… 10/

#5yrsago Facebook helped consolidate power for #Cambodia’s dictator and his attack-dog media, then killed the independent press’s platform buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar… 11/

#5yrsago #SearsCanada execs paid hundreds of millions in dividends before declaring bankruptcy and leaving 16,000 workers’ pensions unfunded thestar.com/business/2018/… 12/

#5yrsago No such thing as #BernieBros: @SenSanders’s approval rates are women 50%, Black people 70%, Latinos 55%; men 46%, whites 43% truthdig.com/articles/berni… 13/

#5yrsago Thanks to “consent” buried deep in sales agreements, car manufacturers are tracking tens of millions of US cars washingtonpost.com/news/innovatio… 14/

Saturday's threads: Tiktok's enshittification; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1616830678770802691

15/

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… 16/

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… 17/

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/ 18/

Upcoming appearances:

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (#NewOrleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

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

* Avid Reader (#Brisbane), 2/8
avidreader.com.au/pages/6834-Cho… 19/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Future of Arts/Culture/Tech, @ACMI, (#Melbourne), 2/14
acmi.net.au/whats-on/in-co…

* @statelibrarynsw (#Sydney), 2/15
sl.nsw.gov.au/events/chokepo…

* ANU/@canberratimes Meet The Author (#Canberra), 2/16
anu.edu.au/events/in-conv… 20/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 21/

Recent appearances:

* The Future of Business, Technology and Society (@PodcastMyBiz)
sixpixels.com/podcast/archiv…

* The Way the Music Died (@Canadaland Commons)
canadaland.com/podcast/monopo…

* @majorityfm with @SamSeder
majorityreportradio.com/2023/01/09/1-9… 22/

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/2023/01/23/can… 23/

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 "Normalize Dark Corners!"

doctorow.medium.com/normalize-dark… 24/

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 25/

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). 26/

Today's top sources: @YvesSmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 27/