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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/gre…

#Pluralistic

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

mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc…

Tomorrow (Apr 26), you can catch me in #Burbank at @DarkDel at 6PM:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

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How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it: Most Favored Nation is my least favorite scam.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1650937557201588224

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Hey look at this

* The Witch Trials of #JKRowling | @ContraPoints )

* I enjoyed Cory Doctorow's new travelogue/thriller "Red Team Blues" superpunch.net/2023/04/i-enjo…

* Help @BrianEwing battle cancer gofundme.com/f/help-brian-e… (h/t @jstruan)

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#20yrsago Notes from “Google, Innovation, and the Web,” at ETCON craphound.com/googleetcon200…

#20yrsago #Grokster court rules distributing #Gnutella clients is legal! craphound.com/GROKSTER ORDER.PDF

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#20yrsago Nanotechnology: Bringing Digital Control to Matter” #EricDrexler’s talk at ETCON craphound.com/drexleretcon20…

#20yrsago Notes from “Roboflies, Flexonics, and the Social Life of #SmartDust” craphound.com/pescoetcon2003…

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#20yrsago “Internet 0 — Bringing IP to the Leaf Node” craphound.com/raffietcon2003…

#20yrsago “Physical Computing,” @tigoe’s talk at ETCON craphound.com/tigoeetcon2003…

#15yrsago UK photographer chased down and detained for taking pix at fun fair curly15.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/sex…

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#10yrsago @EFF, @fsf, @creativecommons and many others ask #W3C to reject #DRM conspiracy defectivebydesign.org/sign-on-agains…

#10yrsago @canadapost claims exclusive use of the words “postal code” web.archive.org/web/2013042704…

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#10yrsago Nevada bans counties from gouging @burningman burners.me/2013/04/23/vic…

#10yrsago @laurenbeukes’s Shining Girls: a serial killer thriller with a time-travel twist memex.craphound.com/2013/04/25/lau…

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#5yrsago Incentives matter: the Mr Market LOOOOOVES death squads sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#5yrsago In 60 seconds, security researchers can clone the master hotel-room keys for 140,000 hotels in 160 countries wired.com/story/one-minu…

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#5yrsago @SenSanders’ New Deal: ending involuntary unemployment with guaranteed $15/hour infrastructure jobs washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…

#1yrago Up Against It, an "essential," action-adventure sf tale of bureaucrats and colonizers pluralistic.net/2022/04/25/mj-…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1650544539382472704

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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 @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:

* @mediadeathcult


* Slingshot
thesling.org/video/slingsho…

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

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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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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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