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Inside: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists; and more!

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Next Monday (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series

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Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists: What they think we think.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1636027778083553281

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Hey look at this

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* Pierce and the Purple Moon pierceandthepurplemoon.com 4/

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#15yrsago House votes against telcom immunity for illegal wiretapping wired.com/2008/03/house-… 8/

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#10yrsago Review of Nineteen Eighty-Four from 1949 newstatesman.com/culture/2013/0… 12/

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Sunday's threads: Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1634906261509799939

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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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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:

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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:

* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, 3/20
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* @IFTF Changing the Register, 3/22
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
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* Red Team Blues at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
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Recent appearances:

* @RuBlackListNET Privacy Day


* Factually With @adamconover:
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* Making Big Tech Better vs Making it Smaller (@BruxConf2023):
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