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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels; and more!

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

#Pluralistic

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Tonight (Apr 26), I'll be in #Burbank at @DarkDel at 6PM with my new book, *Red Team Blues*:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

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From Apr 26-28, @BNBuzz is offering a 25% discount on preorders for my upcoming novels (use discount code PREORDER25):

The Lost Cause (Nov 2023)

barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-cau…

The Bezzle (Red Team Blues #2) (Feb 2024)

barnesandnoble.com/w/the-bezzle-c…

#BNPreorder25

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Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels: Hospices are unregulated, heavily subsidized charnel houses.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1651320132856160260

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Hey look at this

* Eminent cryptographer @matthew_d_green on Red Team Blues blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2023/04/24/boo…

* An Economic Model Of #IntermediaryLiability james.grimmelmann.net/files/articles…

* Center for the Study of Political Graphics politicalgraphics.org

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#10yrsago HOWTO die at #BurningMan burners.me/2013/04/25/9-w…

#10yrsago #FairUse decision: remixing is legal even when there is no intent to comment or parody original work artnews.com/art-in-america…

#10yrsago Debunking the #HTML5 #DRM myths web.archive.org/web/2013042721…

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#10yrsago Akissi: kids’ comic about a mischievous girl in Cote D’Ivoire memex.craphound.com/2013/04/26/aki…

#10yrsago Publishing should fight ebook retailers for more data web.archive.org/web/2013042823…

#10yrsago #JelloBiafra talks #Occupy, music, and Obama theguardian.com/music/2013/apr…

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#10yrsago Too-big-to-fail banks implicated in $500 T fraud: biggest price-rigging scandal in history rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

#5yrsago A who’s-who of tech manufacturers sent scaremongering letters to the Illinois legislature to kill #RightToRepair vice.com/en/article/vbx…

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#5yrsago Security researchers can turn #Alexa into a transcribing, always-on listening device threatpost.com/researchers-ha…

#5yrsago Microsoft sends recycler to jail for reinstalling obsolete, licensed copies of Windows on refurbished PCs washingtonpost.com/news/true-crim…

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#5yrsago Trump’s finance watchdog wants to make the taxpayer-funded database of crooked banks go dark npr.org/2018/04/25/605…

#5yrsago #LittleBrother is 10 years old today: I reveal the secret of writing future-proof science fiction tor.com/2018/04/26/ten…

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#1yrago #BottledWater monopolist admits #recycling is bullshit pluralistic.net/2022/04/26/pla…

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Yesterday's threads: How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1650944661182353408

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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

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My latest nonfiction 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 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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