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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg…

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There's 5 days left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my upcoming anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

redteamblues.com

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Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1646240976065773571

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Hey look at this

* The Beltway’s Favorite Bogus Budget Model prospect.org/economy/2023-0…

* The brilliant @OhJoySexToy is 10 - they're having a pledgedrive (I backed it!) ohjoysextoy.com/pledgedrive202…

* #AlJaffee, King of the #MadMagazine Fold-In, Dies at 102 nytimes.com/2023/04/10/art…

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#15yrsago Countering the FUD about the “#OrphanWorks” copyright bill (that doesn’t exist) maradydd.livejournal.com/374886.html

#15yrsago Cities making #RedLightCameras more profitable by making them less safe web.archive.org/web/2008041501…

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#15yrsago EU forced to release list of objects you’re not allowed to take on planes nytimes.com/2008/04/10/bus…

#10yrsago Ordered list of credible fictions wired.com/2013/04/design…

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#10yrsago WA grants MSFT $1.5B tax amnesty, resorts to taxing dance-clubs to make up shortfall jeffreifman.com/2013/04/12/sea…

#5yrsago #Parkland teacher who was open to the idea of arming teachers forgets his loaded Glock in a public bathroom bbc.com/news/world-us-…

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#5yrsago Zuck to Congress: “I’ll get back to you” (42 times) wired.com/story/mark-zuc…

#5yrsago Peak Zuck: “What’s a #ShadowProfile?” techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/fac…

#5yrsago American banks’ secret #subprime exposure stretches into the billions wolfstreet.com/2018/04/11/how…

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#5yrsago Wisconsin clears the way for #Foxconn by bulldozing working peoples’ homes and paying them pennies on the dollar beltmag.com/blighted-by-fo…

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#5yrsago Between Trump, @AjitPai and a GOP Congress, there’s never been a better time for a terrible Sprint/T-Mobile merger techdirt.com/2018/04/11/com…

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#5yrsago @evictionlab: a comprehensive database of every eviction proceeding in America for the past 16 years evictionlab.org

#5yrsago Cities’ emergency sirens will play anything you send them over an unencrypted radio protocol wired.com/story/this-rad…

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#5yrsago #JohnBoehner pledged eternal support for imprisoning marijuana users, now he’s in the #LegalWeed business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago We won’t have @SpeakerRyan to kick around anymore cnn.com/2018/04/11/pol…

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#5yrsago MIT students create and circulate open source, covert #RFID rings to subvert campus tracking system boingboing.net/wp-content/upl…

#5yrsago More DRM-bustin’ stuff for the #CatalogOfMissingDevices, courtesy of @EFF supporters eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

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#5yrsago How abusive bosses and #Slack led software engineers to #unionize and demand justice jacobin.com/2018/04/laneti…

#1yrago The "#algospeak" dialect pluralistic.net/2022/04/11/coe…

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#1yrago When Automation Becomes Enforcement pluralistic.net/2022/04/11/coe…

#1yrago @DanielPinkwater's "Crazy in Poughkeepsie" pluralistic.net/2022/04/12/klo…

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Monday's threads: Alissa Quart's 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream'; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1645542680188055552

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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…

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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:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

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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."

craphound.com/shop/
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Upcoming appearances:

* 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…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues at @DarkDel (#Burbank), 4/26
darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

* Red Team Blues at @SFPublicLibrary with @Annaleen (#SanFrancisco), 4/30
sfpl.org/events/2023/04…

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), 5/10
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…

* @MassyArts Red Team Blues event with @seancranbury (#Vancouver), 5/10
eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blu…

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @GburgBookFest, 5/20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

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

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

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

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Recent appearances:

* The "Enshittification" of Online Life (@CulturallyDet)
shows.acast.com/6204030b185070…

* @Mindplex_AI


* @HackerRadioShow (@2600)
2600.com/offthehook/202…

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My latest @Medium column is "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids?"

doctorow.medium.com/how-to-make-a-…

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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).

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Today's top sources: @jstruan (superpunch.net).