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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell; and more!

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

iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 2/

Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell: Narrated by Wil Wheaton!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1638510072610406401

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Hey look at this

* #GPT4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-pr…

* We Cannot Countenance Windowless Bedrooms thenation.com/article/societ…

* #FBI spy van for sale nh.craigslist.org/cto/d/kingston… 4/

#20yrsago How @slashdot girds its servers slashdot.org/~CmdrTaco/jour…

#15yrsago In the age of #ebooks, you don’t own your library gizmodo.com/amazon-kindle-…

#10yrsago NY judge says running a search engine for news is a copyright violation eff.org/deeplinks/2013… 5/

#10yrsago Brazil’s music #CollectingSocieties convicted of forming an illegal cartel web.archive.org/web/2013032108…

#10yrsago How to fix the worst law in technology newyorker.com/news/news-desk… 6/

#10yrsago GoPro sends fraudulent #DMCA notice to site that ran a negative review of its products petapixel.com/2013/03/20/gop…

#5yrsago Data shows young people are free speech advocates, but mainstream support for censoring “anti-American” speech is rising vox.com/policy-and-pol… 7/

#5yrsago #Dropbox has some genuinely great security reporting guidelines, but reserves the right to jail you if you disagree memex.craphound.com/2018/03/22/dro… 8/

#5yrsago A proposal to stop #3DPrinters from making #guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security memex.craphound.com/2018/03/22/a-p…

#5yrsago Science fiction, predicting the present, the adjacent possible, and trumpian comic dystopias memex.craphound.com/2018/03/22/sci… 9/

#1yrago Ban surveillance advertising: @EFF's technological and legal proposal for a surveillance-free internet. pluralistic.net/2022/03/22/myo… 10/

Yesterday's threads: Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1638175215195758592

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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:

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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:

* @iftf Changing the Register, 3/22
iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl… 15/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc…

* Red Team Blues at @WordfestTweets (#Calgary), 5/11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor… 16/

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… 17/

Recent appearances:

* Techtonic with @markhurst | @WFMU
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* @RuBlackListNET Privacy Day


* Factually With @adamconover:
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