Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: SVB bailouts for everyone - except affordable housing projects; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/15/soc…

#Pluralistic

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There's just TWO DAYS left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible won't carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

redteamblues.com

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SVB bailouts for everyone - except affordable housing projects: Even the shareholders got billions.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1647241040988893186

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Hey look at this

* Why Interoperability Would Boost Digital Competition | Chicago Policy Review chicagopolicyreview.org/2023/04/12/cor…

* Ripping Off the Invisible Straitjacket prospect.org/economy/2023-0…

* #Enshittification, accounting… and email? rinesi.substack.com/p/enshittifica…

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#20yrsago @GM apologizes for “freaks and weirdos ride the bus” ads craphound.com/GMresponse.pdf

#20yrsago How #GM destroyed America’s public transit trainweb.org/mts/ctc/ctc06.…

#15yrsago Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can’t publish them memex.craphound.com/2008/04/15/ore…

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#15yrsago #RonaldSearle’s original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian’s comics memex.craphound.com/2008/04/15/ron…

#10yrsago Cops in Somerville, MA: “It would endanger the public to tell you what guns we have” muckrock.com/news/archives/…

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#5yrsago When your dental insurer sends you a “free” #InternetOfShit toothbrush wolfstreet.com/2018/04/14/our…

#5yrsago The US workforce is the most productive, best educated in history and unemployment is at an all-time low, but wages are stagnant theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Yesterday's threads: Is antitrust anti-labor? and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1646862628344729600

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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…

* @publicknowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), 5/22
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…

* #WEPFest with @RonDeibert, @hockeyesque and @DrNancyOlivieri (#Toronto), 5/23
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Red Team Blues event with @christreilly (#Nottingham), 5/30
waterstones.com/events/an-even…

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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…

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Recent appearances:

* Examining capitalism's chokepoints (@changelog)
changelog.com/podcast/535

* Cory Doctorow knows why monopolies are killing art (@CANADALAND)
canadaland.com/podcast/bonus-…

* Against Enshittification (@trashfuturepod):
trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/against-ensh…

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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: @davidsirota (twitter.com/davidsirota/).

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