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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The real scandal is overclassification; The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/01/30/i-c…

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The real scandal is overclassification: I'd explain it, but I'd have to kill you.

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The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour: Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra (twice!).

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Hey look at this

* Exaggerating China’s military spend, Fed breaks all statistical rules with misleading graph geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/23/chi…

* The Cause of Stagflation economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/01/26/the…

* D&D Scraps Plans to Update Its Open Game License gizmodo.com/dungeons-drago… 4/ Image
#20yrsago Feral hippos haunt druglord’s estate web.archive.org/web/2003021020…

#20yrsago McDonald’s can award A-levels in UK news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e…

#20yrsago Category Management: retail trendiness or criminal anti-trust? web.archive.org/web/2003020705… 5/ Image
#20yrsago Finnish recording industry demands royalties for kindergarten singing web.archive.org/web/2003020718…

#15yrsago Tipping-point skeptic says that super-Influencers are overrated fastcompany.com/641124/tipping… 6/ Image
#15yrsago @sfwa European Hall of Fame: a chance to read sf from outside of the Anglo Bubble memex.craphound.com/2008/01/28/sfw…

#15yrsago #Romanian #manga — manga meets Metal Hurlant meets Marvel forbes.com/2008/01/09/rom… 7/ Image
#15yrsago Good As Lily — ass-kicking girl-positive graphic novel for young readers memex.craphound.com/2008/01/30/goo…

#10yrsago Guy makes a game about his crappy job working for Canadian tax authority, loses his crappy job thestar.com/news/gta/2013/… 8/ Image
#10yrsago @jonathancoulton responds to Fox/Glee’s plagiarism of his song by “covering” it and making rival version available for sale web.archive.org/web/2013012203…

#10yrsago @aaronsw’s San Francisco memorial will make you stand up and salute archive.org/details/AaronS… 9/ Image
#10yrsago What the ban on unlocking phones means (worse than you think) eff.org/is-it-illegal-…

#10yrsago #WTO gives #Antigua the right to sell pirated American copyrighted goods torrentfreak.com/antiguas-legal… 10/ Image
#10yrsago American insurers charge reckless rich drivers less than safe poor drivers consumerfed.org/pdfs/PR.AutoIn…

#5yrsago What #KenThompson’s seminal (terrifying!) “#OnTrustingTrust” tells us about the #Spectre and #Meltdown bugs community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_… 11/ Image
#5yrsago Analysis of North America’s weeds reveal the crops, trade, and cuisine of early indigenous people sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 12/ Image
#5yrsago Fitness app releases data-set that reveals the location of sensitive military bases, patrol routes, aircrew flightpaths, and individual soldiers’ jogging routes theguardian.com/world/2018/jan… 13/ Image
#5yrsago Apple’s long-awaited podcast data-transparency reveals an ad-listening audience with no clear format-preferences wired.com/story/apple-po… 14/ Image
#5yrsago Property developer caught using critic’s photo in promotional materials, demands an end to criticism as a condition of paying for the use spitalfieldslife.com/2018/01/29/a-r… 15/
#5yrsago New York Times profiles a sleazy Twitter follower-farm, the sleazy serial liar who made millions on it, and the celebs, politicians, sports figures and “influencers” who paid him nytimes.com/interactive/20… 16/ Image
#5yrsago One quarter of New Orleans’ catch-basins were clogged to uselessness with 93,000 lbs of plastic #MardiGrasBeads nola.com/news/politics/… 17/ Image
#5yrsago A 1×1 tracking pixel was used as evidence of treason against 30,000 Turks, sent tens of thousands to jail cbc.ca/news/world/ter…

#5yrsago Academic audit of HUD budget finds $351 million in unaccounted-for spending since 1998 msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/msu-… 18/ Image
#5yrsago Majority of Democrats now hold favorable views of mass-murdering simpleton George W Bush news.libertasbella.com/story/libertas… 19/ Image
#5yrsago #ScottWalker is terrified that Democrats will win special elections to fill vacant seats, so he’s leaving thousands of Wisconsinites without state reps web.archive.org/web/2018090100… 20/ Image
#5yrsago Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase announce new health insurer ‘free from profit-making incentives and constraints’ money.cnn.com/2018/01/30/new…

#5yrsago After industry adopts open video standards, #MPEG founder says the end is nigh blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-c… 21/ Image
#5yrsago Meet Hereditary Congressman #DanLipinski, an anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ Illinois “Machine Democrat” who opposes the $15 minimum wage theintercept.com/2018/01/29/dan… 22/ Image
#5yrsago Convicted criminal Silvio #Berlusconi returns to Italian politics as a kingmaker nytimes.com/2018/01/29/wor…

#5yrsago #Berlin regulates Airbnb and safely deflates its housing bubble while returning 8,000 rentals to the market dw.com/en/berlin-hous… 23/ Image
#5yrsago What #youthquake? Jeremy #Corbyn’s election surge was drawn from all age groups, not a mob of first-time young voters blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

#5yrsago Inside big tech’s last-minute scramble to comply with Europe’s new privacy rules nytimes.com/2018/01/28/tec… 24/ Image
#5yrsago Starlings: razor-sharp stories and poems from @BlueJo memex.craphound.com/2018/01/30/sta…

#5yrsago The in-depth tale of #Bylock, the #Turkish messenger app whose 1×1 tracking GIF was the basis for tens of thousands of treason accusations arrestedlawyers.org/2018/01/21/eve… 25/ Image
#1yrago The battle for Ring Zero: The esoteric argument I have been having with myself since 2002 pluralistic.net/2022/01/30/rin…

#1yrago California's chance for universal health care pluralistic.net/2022/01/28/ame… 26/ Image
#1yrago The #RightToRepair: A stupendous new book on a very urgent subject pluralistic.net/2022/01/29/pla…

#1yrago No, payday lenders aren't nice guys pluralistic.net/2022/01/29/pla… 27/ Image
Friday's threads: Podcasts are hearteningly enshittification resistant; Red Team Blues excerpt; and more!

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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… 29/
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… 30/
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/ 31/
Upcoming appearances:

* 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…

* Future of Arts/Culture/Tech, @ACMI, (#Melbourne), 2/14
acmi.net.au/whats-on/in-co… 32/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (#Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 33/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 34/ Image
Recent appearances:

* @davidpakmanshow


* TikTok Isn’t For Creators Anymore (@Slate ICMY)
slate.com/podcasts/icymi…

* Lunch on Laotian food (Eating the Fantastic)
scottedelman.com/2023/01/27/cor… 35/
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/2023/01/30/i-c… 36/
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 "'Conversational' AI Is Really Bad At Conversations"

doctorow.medium.com/conversational… 37/
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Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 38/
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). 39/

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