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Inside: How workers get trapped by "bondage fees"; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part five; and more!

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I'm at the @latimes #Bookfest this weekend:

events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…

Apr 23 at 12, I'm on a panel called "Covering Silicon Valley."

Apr 24 at 11, I'm signing for @CalBookClub at booth 111. At 12:30, I'm on a panel called "The Accidental Detective."

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How workers get trapped by "bondage fees": Two-sided markets always lead to enshittification.



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Red Team Blues Chapter One, part five: The final installment - now get the book!



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Hey look at this

* My Introduction to My Class on "#NewDeal & #Neoliberal Orders" braddelong.substack.com/p/my-introduct…

* DHSR'S Blog: Red Team Blues blog.dshr.org/2023/04/red-te…

* We’ve Been Measuring the Economy All Wrong theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… (h/t @kottke)

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#20yrsago #Madonna diluting own trademark memex.craphound.com/2003/04/21/mad…

#20yrsago @teresanh’s remedial Don’t-Burn-Libraries 101 nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ar…

#10yrsago No, #UniversalDaycare doesn’t destroy the national character theguardian.com/money/2013/apr…

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#5yrsago The world is no longer willing to tolerate the plague of bullshit “agreements” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago Family-owned @SmugMug acquires @Flickr, rescuing it from the sinking post-Yahoo ship usatoday.com/story/tech/201…

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#5yrsago #WorldBank recommends that countries eliminate minimum wage, dismantle wrongful dismissal rules and contractual protections for workers theguardian.com/money/2018/apr…

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Yesterday's threads: Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part four; and more!



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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…

* @latimesfob #BookFest (#LosAngeles), 4/22-23
events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Red Team Blues at @Powell's with @waxy (#PDX/Cedar Hills Crossing), 5/2
powells.com/book/red-team-…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @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…

* @CymeraF, 6/3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues with @Marthalanefox at the @bl, 6/5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-even…

* @republica keynote, 6/7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…

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Recent appearances:

* Slingshot
thesling.org/video/slingsho…

* @iftf Future Now
soundcloud.com/institute-for-…

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

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My latest @Medium column is "How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads: (An opinionated guide) (for the perplexed)"

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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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