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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Apr 24, 2023 • 40 tweets • 53 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How Goldman Sachs's "tax-loss harvesting" lets the ultra-rich rake in billions tax-free; Happy Independent Bookstore Day; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/24/tax…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow (Apr 25) I'll be in #SanDiego for the launch of my new novel, *Red Team Blues*, at 7PM at @MystGalaxyBooks, hosted by @_SarahGailey. Please come and say hi!

mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc…

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How Goldman Sachs's "tax-loss harvesting" lets the ultra-rich rake in billions tax-free: "Generating a tax loss without a substantial change in the investment."



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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! It lasts a week!



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Hey look at this

* Scams, conspiracies, and surprising theories on why we fall victim to them cbc.ca/radio/ideas/sc…

* Escape Speed xkcd.com/2765/

* 'Let's Get It On' ... in court npr.org/2023/04/20/117… (h/t @thepublicdomain)

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#20yrsago “Daddy, Are We There Yet?” @alankay’s talk at ETCON craphound.com/kayetcon2003

#20yrsago A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: @cshirky’s talk at ETCON 2003 craphound.com/shirkyetcon200…

#20yrsago Journalism 3.1b2, @dangillmor's talk at ETCON craphound.com/gillmoretcon20…

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#20yrsago Notes from @megnut’s “Edges of the Writable Web” talk at ETCON craphound.com/megetcon2003.t…

#20yrsago @stewart Butterfield: “Game Context as a Testing Ground for Social Software.” craphound.com/stewartetcon20…

#20yrsago #MovableType launches #TypePad web.archive.org/web/2003060316…

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#20yrsago @hrheingold’s “Technology Innovation and Collective Action” at ETCON craphound.com/hlretcon2003.t…

#20yrsago Eric Blossom and Matt Ettus’s talk on #GNURadio at ETCON craphound.com/gnuradioetcon2…

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#20yrsago Notes from Wireless Routing and Multi-Hop Architectures at ETCON craphound.com/meshetcon2003.…

#15yrsago Anti-teen noise-weapon comes to the USA web.archive.org/web/2008042923…

#15yrsago @emi: backing up music files online is illegal consumerist.com/2008/04/22/emi…

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#10yrsago Early American tombstone euphemisms for death vastpublicindifference.com/2008/08/101-wa…

#20yrsago Cisco’s routers designed for governmental eavesdropping web.archive.org/web/2003080819…

#20yrsago #Chandler goes 0.1 web.archive.org/web/2003060320…

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#20yrsago Notes from “Legal Issues and Emerging Technology” craphound.com/fvletcon2003.t…

#20yrsago Patents in Emerging Tech craphound.com/etconpatents.t…

#20yrsago @bunniestudios’s tutorial on #HardwareHacking craphound.com/bunnieetcon200…

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#15yrsago #TSA screener who smuggled a gun into the airport is still on the job web.archive.org/web/2008042819…

#15yrsago Sleazy proposed new #DungeonsAndDragons license seeks to poison open gaming systems web.archive.org/web/2008050600…

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#15yrsago MSN Music customers lose *all* their music the next time they buy a new PC arstechnica.com/information-te…

#15yrsago Middlesbrough cops, goons and clerks grab and detain photographer for shooting on a public street memex.craphound.com/2008/04/22/mid…

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#15yrsago Disneyland bans pictures in its parking lots disneylandcompendium.blogspot.com/2008/04/photo-…

#10yrsago Fox sends fraudulent takedown notices for my novel Homeland memex.craphound.com/2013/04/22/fox…

#10yrsago @GreatDismal tries the Google Glass flickr.com/photos/1800joe…

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#10yrsago Then-and-now photos of Disney Parks from early days and today imagineeringdisney.com/thenandnow/201…

#10yrsago Finnish websites go dark tomorrow to call for copyright reform web.archive.org/web/2013060100…

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#10yrsago #ChinaMieville’s turn-it-to-11 high weirdness reboot of “Dial H” memex.craphound.com/2013/04/23/chi…

#10yrsago Man has eaten at 6,297 Chinese restaurants in the USA and Canada latimes.com/local/la-me-ch…

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#10yrsago Prof says he’ll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/1…

#5yrsago Cops shoot man, then interrupt his funeral to press his corpse’s finger to his Iphone tampabay.com/news/publicsaf…

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#5yrsago The problem isn’t that Facebook is creepy, it’s that it’s creepy AND HUGE wired.com/story/competit…

#5yrsago It’s 2018, and Google just proposed an instant messaging tool with no encryption bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/go…

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#5yrsago ISO rejects the @nsa’s #IoT crypto standard, believing it to be backdoored web.archive.org/web/2018042413…

#5yrsago Colorado Senate Republicans introduce legislation to fire, imprison striking teachers denver7.com/lifestyle/educ…

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#5yrsago The used cars that Europe sends to Nigeria are filled with illegal, toxic e-waste collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:6349…

#5yrsago The @BBC finally admits that #MI5 secretly vetted its employees, an open secret for generations bbc.com/news/stories-4…

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#1yrago Don't believe Obama's Big Tech #CritiHype pluralistic.net/2022/04/22/mes…

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Friday's threads: How workers get trapped by "bondage fees"; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part five; 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:

* 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…

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Red Team Blues at @BooksIncStores with @mkapor (#MountainView), 5/5
booksinc.net/event/cory-doc…

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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…

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* @GburgBookFest, (#Gaithersburg) 5/20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/28
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

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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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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/2023/04/24/tax…

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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.

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My latest Medium column is "A Collective Bargain: Workplace democracy is a training ground for true national democracy"

doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-b…

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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: mail.flarn.com/mailman/listin…

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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: @nelson's Weblog (somebits.com/weblog/).

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1/ pluralistic.net/2025/05/02/kpi…A leg-hold trap whose trigger disc has been replaced with the hostile, glaring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' A giant man's finger enters the frame from one corner, aimed at the trigger. Image: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Index_finger_%3D_to_attention.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en -- 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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More tour dates (PDX, Pittsburgh, London, Manchester) here:

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Patrick "patio11" McKenzie is a fantastic explainer, the kind of person who breaks topics down in ways that stay with you, and creep into your understanding of other subjects, too. Take his 2022 essay, "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero":



1/ bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optima…A rainforest in Chiapas, green and intergrown.
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It's a very well-argued piece, and here's the nut of it:

> The marginal return of permitting fraud against you is plausibly greater than zero, and therefore, you should welcome greater than zero fraud.

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Astrophysicist Adam Becker knows a bit about science and tech - enough to show, in his book *More Everything Forever* that claims tech bros make about space colonies, mind uploading, and other skiffy subjects are nonsense dressed up as prediction:



1/ hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-be…The Basic Books cover for Adam Becker's 'More Everything Faster.'
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Have you heard that tariffs are going to drive prices up? Me too. There's a good reason we're hearing a lot of talk about tariffs prices: tariffs are a tax that is ultimately paid by consumers.

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It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company *intended* to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors.

1/ A naked, sexless pull-string talking doll with a speaker grille set into its chest. It has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar, and a pull string extending from its back. A hand - again, from a Zuckerberg metaverse avatar - is pulling back the string. The doll towers over a courtroom.
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1/ thestreet.com/automotive/tes…A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene. Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified)...
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