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Inside: The problem with economic models; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all…

#Pluralistic 1/ A Tron-like plane of glowing grid-squares. Two spherical cow
I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, an anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:

redteamblues.com 2/
The problem with economic models: Ideology disguised as math.

3/ Image: bert knottenbeld (modified) https://www.flickr.com/p
Hey look at this

* Nonfunctional pesticide class action, countersuit against whistleblower colinpurrington.com/2021/01/posts-…

* Single-Stair Layouts Won't Fix Housing thenation.com/article/societ…

* Audiobooks Without Audible: Lessons Learned Routing Around Amazon publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in… 4/
#20yrsago @bruces on #TotalInformationAwareness wired.com/2003/04/i-want…

#20yrsago Chinese state sends 20m SMS messages to crush #SARS rumor web.archive.org/web/2003061818…

#20yrsago Found poetry from #Rumsfeld’s speeches web.archive.org/web/2003041513… 5/
#20yrsago OS X floppy disk RAID web.archive.org/web/2003060111…

#15yrsago Best practices for water imbibing: “Just drink when you’re thirsty” npr.org/2008/04/03/893…

#15yrsago Debating the feasibility of an in-flight #LiquidBomb schneier.com/blog/archives/… 6/
#15yrsago Boston judge: making files available to download isn’t piracy eff.org/deeplinks/2008…

#15yrsago @AirCanada: for $35, we’ll let you talk to customer-service reps who can actually help you with a cancelled flight thestar.com/business/2008/… 7/
#15yrsago Japanese creative packaging design solutions to ugly barcodes darkroastedblend.com/2008/04/japane…

#15yrsago #CharlesManson uses #CreativeCommons licenses web.archive.org/web/2008040310…

#15yrsago China’s instant cities — jaw-dropping National Geo feature web.archive.org/web/2008040210… 8/
#15yrsago Banks refuse to take title on repossessed crappy houses web.archive.org/web/2008040613…

#10yrsago #IainBanks: I’m dying of cancer, this book will be my last theguardian.com/books/2013/apr… 9/
#10yrsago Podcast to mark centennial of #MarcDavis, co-creator of #HauntedMansion, Pirates of the Caribbean mousetalgia.libsyn.com/remembering-ma… 10/
#10yrsago Autonomous sensory meridian response – self-diagnosed neurological condition/superpower that makes you really enjoy whispering independent.co.uk/tech/maria-spe…

#10yrsago Queen goes on austerity footing, receives mere £5M pay-rise from the taxpayers theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/02… 11/
#5yrsago Offering users transparency and privacy is the only way Big Tech can avoid being turned into content cops dangillmor.medium.com/why-tech-platf…

#5yrsago The technologies that would make the web more participatory medium.com/@anildash/the-… 12/
#5yrsago Eight months ago, @PaneraBread was warned that they were leaking up to 7 million customers’ data. They fixed it yesterday. Kinda. krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/panera… 13/
#5yrsago Even the telco industry thinks @AjitPai is an asshole for maiming #Lifeline, a broadband subsidy for poor Americans techdirt.com/2018/04/03/fcc… 14/
#5yrsago Analysis of all the elections since Trump produces no clear answers on the class and suburban/urban correlates of flippability fivethirtyeight.com/features/be-sk… 15/
#5yrsago #AlexJones falsely accused a guy of being the Parkland school shooter, so now he’s being sued for more than $1,000,000 thedailybeast.com/falsely-accuse…

#5yrsago 2018 tsunami: Teachers lead mass strikes in four red states that voted for Trump in 2016 thehill.com/homenews/state… 16/
#5yrsago The Manhattan property bubble is bursting ft.com/content/b0ab3f…

#15yrsago Difference between feeling secure and being secure wired.com/2008/04/securi… 17/
#15yrsago Microsoft busted by Indian government for avoiding royalty tax by saying that it sells — not licenses — its software economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/…

#15yrsago How an ISP music-license should work eff.org/deeplinks/2008… 18/
#15yrsago Fuji makes you sign bizarre EULA to buy a camera memex.craphound.com/2008/04/02/fuj…

#15yrsago Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to domestic military operations eff.org/deeplinks/2008… 19/
#15yrsago Short story reads like the first page of Snow Crash, recombined and awesome — Leonard Richardson’s “Mallory” futurismic.com/2008/04/01/mal…

#10yrsago Notorious porno copyright trolls #PrendaLaw have a very bad day in court popehat.com/2013/04/02/pre… 20/
#10yrsago Free US court records service #RECAP gets two major features, in Aaron Swartz’s memory web.archive.org/web/2013040314…

#5yrsago A hive of scum and villainy: meet the right-wing “Democrats” the DCCC is planning to win 2018 with jacobin.com/2018/04/democr… 21/
#5yrsago Even insured Americans flock to Mexico for low-cost, high-quality health-care cracked.com/personal-exper…

#5yrsago @IAmJohnOliver on America’s immigration courts, where families are torn apart and young children represent themselves 22/
#5yrsago Here are the moats and walls Facebook has been building for years to defend against #DeleteFacebook vice.com/en/article/vbx…

#5yrsago Governing a decentralized internet without votes medium.com/@nayafia/the-p… 23/
#5yrsago On the junk science and excellent PR of #CambridgeAnalytica memex.craphound.com/2018/04/02/on-…

#5yrsago West Virginia is contagious: mass teacher walkouts in Kentucky and Oklahoma cnn.com/us/live-news/t… 24/
Saturday's threads: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead; and more!

25/
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… 26/
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… 27/
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/ 28/
Upcoming appearances:

* Twiddling, Enshittification and the Latter-Day Robber Barons of the Web, 4/6
eventbrite.com/e/session-73-c…

* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl… 29/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Red Team Blues at @darkdel (#Burbank), Apr 26
darkdel.com/store/p2873/We… 30/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @baybookfest (#Berkeley/#BABF2023), 5/6-7
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…

* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), 5/10
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su… 31/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro… 32/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (Manchester), 5/31
waterstones.com/events/in-conv…

* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste… 33/
Recent appearances:

* Is Copyright Good For Authors? (@TWiT)


* @culturejourno: What is chokepoint capitalism?
theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/chokepoint-c…

* Techtonic with @markhurst | @WFMU
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cor… 34/
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/2023/04/03/all… 35/
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. 36/
My latest Medium column is "Commafuckers Versus The Commons: Copyleft Trolls Are the Serpents in Our Garden of Ethical Sharing"

doctorow.medium.com/commafuckers-v… 37/
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 38/
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). 39/

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