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Inside: David Graeber's "Pirate Enlightenment"; and more!

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David Graeber's "Pirate Enlightenment": The true, swashbuckling lives of matriarchs, anarchists, and pirates at the crossroads of the world.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1617891269476339713

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Hey look at this

* #DebtCeiling Limit is Destructive, Duplicative, and Dumb stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/the-debt-cei…

* 3d-party apps Twitter killed made the site what it is today theverge.com/2023/1/22/2356…

* Predictions Scorecard, 1/1/23 – Rodney Brooks rodneybrooks.com/predictions-sc… (h/t @slashdot) 3/

#15yrsago God Save Stan Lee tee memex.craphound.com/2008/01/24/god…

#15yrsago FBI whistleblower tells librarians about discriminatory practices and bad procedure at the Bureau web.archive.org/web/2008012718… 4/

#10yrsago @Superwuster: “Escape From Tomorrow” doesn’t violate #Disney’s #copyright newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

#5yrsago EU fines Qualcomm over $1 billion for anti-competitive iPhone deal ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… 5/

#5yrsago The #NSA’s new “core values” statement no longer includes “honor,” “honesty” or “openness” https://theintercept.2023-Jan-1 com/2018/01/24/nsa-core-values-honesty-deleted/ 6/

#5yrsago For 100 minutes, more than a million tuned into Sanders’ #MedicareForAll town hall washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…

#5yrsago California’s lax #usury laws means out-of-state loan sharks are charging desperate Californians 183% APRs latimes.com/business/la-fi… 7/

#5yrsago Florida state cop says he can’t remember why he bought mobile stalking app vice.com/en/article/gyw…

#5yrsago Congressional Budget Office will (eventually) investigate the millions of fraudulent anti-#NetNeutrality comments sent to the FCC theverge.com/2018/1/24/1692… 8/

#5yrsago TWANG! A one-dimensional dungeon-crawler that uses a springy doorstop as a controller

#5yrsago Despite the FCC, more than 750 predominantly conservative US communities have built their own publicly owned ISPs vice.com/en/article/a3n… 9/

Yesterday's threads: Eggflation is just more price-gouging; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1617650919780356097

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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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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

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* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (#NewOrleans), 1/27-30
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* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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* @statelibrarynsw (#Sydney), 2/15
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* ANU/@canberratimes Meet The Author (#Canberra), 2/16
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* @majorityfm with @SamSeder
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