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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Mar 15, 2023 • 35 tweets • 40 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon…

#Pluralistic 1/ A sign reading 'This is not Disneyland! Do not let children
Next Monday (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series

iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 2/
Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists: What they think we think.

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Hey look at this

* #RollyCrump dies: @Disney designer helped define Disneyland latimes.com/entertainment-…

* Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It kottke.org/23/03/kottke-i…

* Pierce and the Purple Moon pierceandthepurplemoon.com 4/
#20yrsago #MichaelMoorcock savages #PKD theguardian.com/books/2003/mar…

#20yrsago Airport luggage inspectors policing thoughtcrime web.archive.org/web/2003032120…

#20yrsago Will ultrawideband (finally) kill Bluetooth? web.archive.org/web/2003050105… 5/
#20yrsago @NatalieMerchant abandons the recording industry nytimes.com/2003/03/13/art…

#20yrsago My talk from the @EFFAustin party audio web.archive.org/web/2005090822…

#20yrsago Blogs are novelists’ notebooks (too) web.archive.org/web/2003040201… 6/
#15yrsago @BBC’s #iPlayer #DRM cracked again po-ru.com/2008/03/13/bbc…

#15yrsago True Names: story podcast about the warring superintelligences of the Singularity craphound.com/news/2008/03/1…

#15yrsago @TerryAndRob donates $1 million to #Alzheimer’s research web.archive.org/web/2008031301… 7/
#15yrsago @RIAA’s unethical investigations to be dragged into the open in court case arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#15yrsago House votes against telcom immunity for illegal wiretapping wired.com/2008/03/house-… 8/
#15yrsago Finnish MP proposes week-long “love vacation” law web.archive.org/web/2008031817…

#15yrsago @TSA officials running illegal private consultancy? web.archive.org/web/2008031817…

#10yrsago Legal issues in Pirate Cinema analyzed by IP lawyer lawandthemultiverse.com/2013/03/15/pir… 9/
#10yrsago #Makies in Make: makezine.com/article/digita…

#10yrsago Weird probabilities of non-transitive “#GrimeDice”

#10yrsago @AaronSw defense: prosecutor #SteveHeymann deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence huffpost.com/entry/aaron-sw… 10/
#10yrsago English town council wants to abolish apostrophes in street-names to end “confusion” theguardian.com/society/2013/m…

#10yrsago #NationalPost wants to copyright article titles excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2013/03/warman… 11/
#10yrsago Transcripts of bullying voicemails left by porno copyright troll to ex-caretaker and alleged identity theft victim techdirt.com/2013/03/14/tra…

#10yrsago Review of Nineteen Eighty-Four from 1949 newstatesman.com/culture/2013/0… 12/
#10yrsago Texas cop repeatedly tazes the Statue of Liberty loweringthebar.net/2013/03/tasing…

#10yrsago #AaronSwartz’s unfinished monograph on the “programmable Web” web.archive.org/web/2017042701…

#10yrsago #SherlockHolmes copyrights are an insane hairball thegotham.org/resources/sher… 13/
#5yrsago Amazing Tales: a storytelling game with dice for kids and grownups memex.craphound.com/2018/03/13/ama…

#5yrsago Monsters Beware! is the long-awaited sequel to Giants Beware! and Dragons Beware! and it is AAAAAAMAZING! memex.craphound.com/2018/03/13/mon… 14/
#5yrsago Scenes from today’s national #GunControl student walkout nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/…

#5yrsago #StephenHawking’s final words to the internet: robots aren’t the problem, capitalism is reddit.com/r/science/comm… 15/
#5yrsago Study finds that for-pay scholarly journals contribute virtually nothing to the papers they publish arxiv.org/pdf/1604.05363… 16/
#5yrsago Hereditary ultraestablishment Democrat @DanLipinski funded by railroad industry, whose safety regs he has held at bay theintercept.com/2018/03/14/dan… 17/
#5yrsago #Disneyland announces a date for removal of sex-slave trafficking scene from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride ocregister.com/2018/03/13/say…

#5yrsago Facebook once boasted of its ability to sway elections, now it has buried those pages theintercept.com/2018/03/14/fac… 18/
#5yrsago #EuropeanParliament ambushed by doctored version of pending internet censorship rules that sneaks filtering into all online services 19/
#5yrsago Caped one-percenters: how superheros make out like bandits under the Trump tax-plan lawandthemultiverse.com/wp-content/upl…

#5yrsago China’s mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist’s advocacy for “systems thinking” science.org/content/articl… 20/
#5yrsago @WellsFargo gives its CEO a $4.6m raise on flat earnings and more scandals mercurynews.com/2018/03/14/des…

#5yrsago Chris Slane’s privacy-oriented editorial cartoons are painfully funny slane.co.nz 21/
#1yrago Russian "#ESG" investments were always about financing invasions and murder pluralistic.net/2022/03/15/san…

#1yrago Fight inflation with a windfall profits tax pluralistic.net/2022/03/15/san… 22/
#1yrago Surprise billing's death-spiral may suck in untold patients pluralistic.net/2022/03/14/unh… 23/
Sunday's threads: Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal; 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… 25/
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… 26/
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/ 27/
Upcoming appearances:

* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, 3/20
iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

* @IFTF Changing the Register, 3/22
iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 28/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…

* Red Team Blues at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc… 29/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro… 30/
Recent appearances:

* @RuBlackListNET Privacy Day


* Factually With @adamconover:
stitcher.com/show/factually…

* Making Big Tech Better vs Making it Smaller (@BruxConf2023):
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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/2023/03/15/mon… 32/
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 "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"

doctorow.medium.com/gig-work-is-th… 33/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🌸". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 34/
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). 35/

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