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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues

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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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@MystGalaxyBooks

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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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1650522189941321735

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."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1650522189941321735

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1650525845898035206

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! It lasts a week!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1650525845898035206

@thepublicdomain

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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@alankay

#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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@megnut

#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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@hrheingold

#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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@emi

#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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@bunniestudios

#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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@GreatDismal

#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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@nsa

#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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@BBC

#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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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1649435336450162690

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1649435336450162690

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@rgibli

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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@DarkDel

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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@torbooks

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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@MystGalaxyBooks

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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@Powell

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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@BayBookFest

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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@WordfestTweets

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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@RonDeibert

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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@TimHarford

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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@cubicgarden

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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@Marthalanefox

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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@iftf

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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