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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/lov…

#Pluralistic 1/
Today (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series

iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

On Weds (Mar 22), I'm doing a remote talk for the @IFTF's "Changing the Register" series:

iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 2/
Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk": Why today's Luddites should be smashing apps.

3/ Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wi
Hey look at this

* Hospitals require nurses to pay back as much as $15,000 in training fees if they are fired nbcnews.com/politics/econo… (h/t @Jstruan)

* Burning Men crookedtimber.org/2023/03/08/bur… (h/t @Metafilter)

* Dana Sibera's Alt-Universe Tech bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor 4/
#20yrsago Revolution is Not an #AOL Keyword web.archive.org/web/2003032215…

#20yrsago United Way will provide cheap #WiFi and PCs to poor people in Philly web.archive.org/web/2005031613…

#20yrsago Indigineous prior-art database to fight #biopiracy news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog… 5/
#20yrsago Disney parks are #NoFlyXones cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/03…

#20yrsago #MITPress takes gutsy #FairUse stand web.archive.org/web/2003031323…

#15yrsago Every issue of #Elfquest free — oldest independent comic goes online web.archive.org/web/2008031919… 6/
#15yrsago How #MortgageDerviatives tanked the economy nytimes.com/2008/03/19/bus…

#15yrsago #StateDepartment employees canned for snooping in #Obama’s passport records web.archive.org/web/2008032211… 7/
#15yrsago CEO of #SubprimeMortgage broker fined $29,000 for dropping 73 f-bombs during deposition web.archive.org/web/2008032210…

#10yrsago Canadian government trying to launder secret #copyright treaties into law web.archive.org/web/2013032315… 8/
#10yrsago Is it worth spending half your profits “fighting piracy”? techdirt.com/2013/03/19/ind…

#10yrsago #RayBradbury’s fan letter to #RobertAHeinlein flavorwire.com/377707/10-illu… 9/
#10yrsago #HTML5’s overseer says #DRM’s true purpose is to prevent legal forms of innovation memex.craphound.com/2013/03/20/htm…

#10yrsago #Heinlein on #Kirtsaeng memex.craphound.com/2013/03/19/hei… 10/
#10yrsago My talk on copyright, ebooks and #libraries for the #LibraryOfCongress

#10yrsago #SCOTUS to #Wiley publishers: your bananas theory of copyright is wrong yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/19… 11/
#10yrsago More on the impact of UK #PressRegulation on blogs, websites, tweeters, and social media theguardian.com/media/2013/mar…

#10yrsago #BrianKrebs talks to hacker who may have #SWATted him and attacked Wired’s Mat Honan krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-ob… 12/
#10yrsago In-depth explanation of @eff’s courtroom victory over the #FBI’s “#NationalSecurityLetters” eff.org/deeplinks/2013…

#10yrsago Tavi “Style Rookie” Gevison on strong female characters and being a young feminist 13/
#10yrsago Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom read-aloud part 01 ia903200.us.archive.org/8/items/Cory_D…

#10yrsago Casino cheats used house #CCTVs to score $32M web.archive.org/web/2013040919…

#10yrsago Minimalist #Parenting: Getting Things Done meets childrearing memex.craphound.com/2013/03/19/min… 14/
#10yrsago #Oklahoma Republicans are tearing themselves apart as they confront the economic wreckage of their policies apnews.com/article/us-new… 15/
#5yrsago People are stashing irrevocable child porn links, dox, copyright infringement, and leaked state secrets in the #blockchain fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings… 16/
#5yrsago #GPS routing increases city throughput by shifting traffic jams onto residential streets ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/77956…

#5yrsago Machine learning has a #reproducibility crisis petewarden.com/2018/03/19/the… 17/
#5yrsago More than a decade’s worth of #Facebook catastrophes techcrunch.com/2018/03/18/mov…

#5yrsago For #GoldmanSachs execs, momentarily working for the government means hundreds of millions in tax savings nypost.com/2018/03/18/why… 18/
#5yrsago Now that public companies must publish the CEO-median worker wage ratio, cities and states can tax the most unequal firms theguardian.com/business/2018/…

#5yrsago #Marx’s birthplace celebrates his bicentennial with #Communist traffic-lights bbc.com/news/world-eur… 19/
#5yrsago Chinese surveillance/tech giant #Alibaba joins #ALEC, will start co-authoring US legislation theintercept.com/2018/03/20/ali…

#5yrsago The future legal shenanigans that will shift liability for pedestrian fatalities involving self-driving Ubers antipope.org/charlie/blog-s… 20/
#5yrsago Alabama Sheriff legally appropriated $750K from #prison meal budgets to build himself a beach house, locked up his whistleblowing gardener npr.org/sections/thetw… 21/
#5yrsago 1.7 million viewers tuned into @SenSanders’ Inequality Town Hall webcast huffpost.com/entry/bernie-s…

#5yrsago Billionaire #Cartier boss returns from fishing holiday gripped with terror that the poors are going to start building #guillotines bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 22/
#5yrsago Why no one has made a tool to turn off Facebook oversharing eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

#5yrsago Just because #CambridgeAnalytica tells its customers it can sway elections, it doesn’t follow that they’re any good at it wired.com/story/the-nois… 23/
#5yrsago RIP #AnnaCampbell, a British woman who joined an all-woman #KurdishProtectionUnit in #Syria telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/1…

#5yrsago A recipe for the deliberately obscured task of changing your Facebook settings to opt out of “platform” sharing eff.org/deeplinks/2018… 24/
#5yrsago Sara Varon’s New Shoes: a kids’ buddy story about the jungles of Guyana and redemption memex.craphound.com/2018/03/20/sar…

#1yrago @KatheKoja's Dark Factory: Taking Bohemia seriously pluralistic.net/2022/03/20/a-w… 25/
Saturday's threads: SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money; 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… 27/
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… 28/
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/ 29/
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… 30/
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… 31/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste… 32/
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/2023/03/19/lov… 34/
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. 35/
My latest @Medium column is "Culture War Bullshit Stole Your Broadband: Your internet sucks because telco monopolists kept Gigi Sohn off the FCC"

doctorow.medium.com/culture-war-bu… 36/
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 37/
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). 38/

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