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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: This is your brain on fraud apologetics; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/pas…

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Next Thu (3/2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. Both in-person and virtual attendance are free:

brusselsconference.com/registration

On Fri (3/3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:

elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/

This is your brain on fraud apologetics: The curious comfort of victim-blaming.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1629136173678354434

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Hey look at this

* Infinite-Storage-Glitch github.com/DvorakDwarf/In… (h/t Joshua Bradley)

* Network Usage Fees Will Harm European Consumers and Businesses eff.org/deeplinks/2022…

* I asked Popehat: Why isn't SBF in jail? newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/i-asked-pope… 4/

#20yrsago Ghanan gov’t shuts down ISPs to keep email from displacing long-distance web.archive.org/web/2003042409…

#20yrsago Doctorow on @GreatDismal in Mindjack mindjack.com/books/gibsonpr… 5/

#15yrsago Government and corporate employees engage in an “epidemic” of snooping into databases web.archive.org/web/2008022900…

#15yrsago Science Fiction Writers of America election is a referendum on copyright extremism whatever.scalzi.com/2008/02/18/a-g… 6/

#15yrsago Knowledge isn’t property theguardian.com/technology/200…

#10yrsago Marriage proposal in the form of a physics paper reddit.com/r/funny/commen…

#10yrsago Pastafarian denied religious freedom in New Jersey driver’s license scandal web.archive.org/web/2013022509… 7/

#5yrsago Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was surrounded by cowering “good guys with guns” edition.cnn.com/2018/02/23/pol…

#5yrsago Gothamist unionized and its evil Trumpist billionaire owner shut it down; now public radio is bringing it back wired.com/story/gothamis… 8/

#5yrsago Paul Manafort’s inability to save Word files as PDFs provided the evidence necessary to indict him for fraud arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#1yrago #MassArbitration attack could bring #Intuit to its knees pluralistic.net/2022/02/24/ube… 9/

Yesterday's threads: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1628820385436237826

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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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Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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Upcoming appearances:

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

* @ElevateFestival (#Graz), 3/3
elevate.at/diskurs/progra…

* @utsdct (#Austin), 2/9
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture (@umanitobasci), 2/9
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…

* @SXSW #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 2/10
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 15/

Recent appearances:

* @ANUmedia/@canberratimes Meet The Author
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* The Gould Standard
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* @RNDrive:
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