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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription; and more!

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

brusselsconference.com/registration

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

elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/

VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription: All the harms of surveillance, none of the benefits.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1630561936394911746

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Hey look at this

* Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear on Pirate Sites torrentfreak.com/amazon-removes… (h/t @Slashdot)

* Future Fords Could Repossess Themselves and Drive Away if You Miss Payments thedrive.com/news/future-fo… (h/t @Slashdot) 4/

#20yrsago Ipsos-Reid sez P2P doesn’t hurt record sales web.archive.org/web/2003041623…

#20yrsago @CopyrightOffice posts #AntiCircumvention comments copyright.gov/1201/2003/repl…

#20yrsago Weird confluence of Orthodox Judiasm and proprietary software in London web.archive.org/web/2003031410… 5/

#20yrsago Skunk Works: #Enron’s spiritual forebears wired.com/2003/03/silent…

#15yrsago Loony evangelical says he engineered Canadian film tax-credit changes that will doom edgy indie movies web.archive.org/web/2008030415… 6/

#15yrsago Record companies don’t share money extorted from file-sharing fans with artists nypost.com/2008/02/27/inf…

#15yrsago Shrine to bragging, deadly Internet “#MallNinja” lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/

#15yrsago @CShirky’s masterpiece: Here Comes Everybody memex.craphound.com/2008/02/28/cla… 7/

#10yrsago Bestiary of unimportant envelopes that look important evilmadscientist.com/2013/envelopes/

#5yrsago My short story about better cities, where networks give us the freedom to schedule our lives to avoid heat-waves and traffic jams theatlantic.com/technology/arc… 8/

#5yrsago The latest “#ReflectionAttack” gooses #DenialOfService attacks by a factor of 51,000 blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-maj…

#5yrsago How citizenship-for-sale and statelessness change cities theatlantic.com/technology/arc… 9/

Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "Twiddler"; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1630253541792071680

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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… 11/

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… 12/

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."

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Upcoming appearances:

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

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

* Seize the Means of Computation (TU Wein), 3/7
informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373 14/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @utsdct (#Austin), 3/9
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…

* Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture (@umanitobasci), 3/9
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…

* @SXSW #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 3/10
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 15/

Recent appearances:

* @ANUmedia/@canberratimes Meet The Author
soundcloud.com/experience_anu…

* The Gould Standard
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* @RNDrive:
abc.net.au/radionational/… 16/

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