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Inside: SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money; and more!

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

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SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money: Also, Silicon Valley is apparently a neighborhood in Manhattan?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1637119662176579584

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Hey look at this

* Rishi Sunak has electricity grid upgraded to heat his private pool theguardian.com/politics/2023/… (h/t Super Punch)

* National Science Foundation News youtube.com/channel/UCRuCg…

* What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care? aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/what-is-algo… 4/

#20yrsago @AaronSw warns that Danger is repeating the #Newton's restrictive SDK licensing mistakes memex.craphound.com/2003/03/18/dan…

#20yrsago HK researchers identify mysterious, deadly respiratory disease web.archive.org/web/2003041316… 5/

#15yrsago Sequoia Voting Systems scares NJ county off of auditing its machines nj.com/news/2008/03/v…

#15yrsago Wikihistory: sf story about the revert-wars among time-travellers — “everybody kills Hitler on their first trip” web.archive.org/web/2008030211… 6/

#15yrsago @CBC to release TV broadcast as high-quality, no-#DRM #BitTorrent download michaelgeist.ca/2008/03/cbc-bi…

#15yrsago #SequoiaVotingSystems threatens @EdFelten’s #Princeton security research team freedom-to-tinker.com/2008/03/17/int… 7/

#10yrsago Sheet music for the #Mario “coin” sound web.archive.org/web/2009103017…

#10yrsago #CPAC racism panel derailed by audience member who suggests slaves should have been grateful for food, shelter & clothing archive.thinkprogress.org/cpac-participa… 8/

#10yrsago #Copyright shouldn’t take away real property rights wired.com/2013/03/you-do…

#10yrsago Literature’s business model explained, with special reference to the age of the Internet vqronline.org/articles/what-… 9/

#10yrsago HOWTO make homemade “Cadbury’s Easter creme” eggs food52.com/blog/6103-home…

#10yrsago Audio from my Homeland tour presentation ia800303.us.archive.org/22/items/Tclp2…

#10yrsago What is good and important about #steampunk harkaway.tumblr.com/post/456049442… 10/

#5yrsago @StevenBrust’s “Good Guys,” a hardboiled noir urban fantasy, with everything great about Brust on proud display memex.craphound.com/2018/03/18/ste… 11/

#5yrsago #Raleigh cops are investigating crime by getting Google to reveal the identity of every mobile user within acres of the scene wral.com/to-find-suspec… 12/

#5yrsago Local UK governments say identifying buildings with #Grenfell cladding would be a gift to arsonists and terrorists theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m… 13/

#5yrsago #RichardSpencer says that #antifa sucked all the fun out of college appearances, calls it quits theintercept.com/2018/03/17/ric…

#5yrsago #WellsFargo accused of ripping off rich people, too cnbc.com/2018/03/16/wel… 14/

#1yrago Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism: A planned economy run by #Blackrock, #Vanguard and #StateStreet pluralistic.net/2022/03/17/sha…

#1yrago The market for #CarbonCredit lemons pluralistic.net/2022/03/18/gre… 15/

Thursday's threads: Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1636418966322135056

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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.

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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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* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
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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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