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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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Jan 25
The core regulatory proposition of the tech industry is "it's not a crime if we do it with an app." It's not an unlicensed taxi if we do it with an app. It's not an illegal hotel room if we do it with an app.

1/ Two caricatures of top-hatted millionaires whose bodies are bulging money-sacks. Their heads have been replaced with potatoes. The potatoes' eyes have been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' They stand in a potato field filled with stoop laborers. The sky is a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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"Boss politics" are a feature of corrupt societies. When a society is dominated by self-dealing, corrupt institutions, strongman leaders can seize control by appealing to the public's fury and desperation.

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