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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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May 4, 2023 • 24 tweets • 32 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Ostromizing democracy; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/ana…

#Pluralistic

1/ A lab-coated scientist amid...
Tomorrow (May 5), I'll be at @BooksIncStores in #MountainView at 7PM with @mkapor for my new novel, *Red Team Blues*:

booksinc.net/event/cory-doc…

This weekend (May 6/7), I'll be in #Berkeley at the #BABF2023:

baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…

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Ostromizing democracy: To counter antidemocratic libertarians, we need an analytical assessment of group problem-solving.



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Hey look at this

* #Colorado kills municipal fiber ban arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

* @achpr_cadhp endorses #FederatedMedia/#DecentralizedModeration achpr.au.int/index.php/en/n…

* #ClarenceThomas Had a Child in Private School. #HarlanCrow Paid the Tuition propublica.org/article/claren…

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#10yrsago #DanKaminski on Bitcoin wired.com/2013/05/lets-c…

#5yrsago Western Illinois coroner will hold your family’s ashes hostage for $1,000, won’t produce a death certificate without payment apnews.com/article/illino…

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#5yrsago #WilWheaton’s frank, brave speech about his depression and anxiety wilwheaton.net/2018/05/my-nam…

#5yrsago Three artificial pancreases: a special trio of Catalog of Missing Devices entries memex.craphound.com/2018/05/04/thr…

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#5yrsago Prominent #AI researchers call the entire field “alchemy” science.org/content/articl…

#5yrsago Scandal-haunted @ScottPruittOK’s staffers are shopping dirt on Ryan Zinke to create a distraction theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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#5yrsago Tech conferences are relocating from the USA to Canada to attract attendees and speakers who don’t want to come to Trump’s America financialpost.com/technology/tec…

#1yrago The eye-glazing scam of #MedicareDrugPlans pluralistic.net/2022/05/04/hou…

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Yesterday's threads: The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point; and more!



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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 @BooksIncStores with @mkapor (#MountainView), 5/5
booksinc.net/event/cory-doc…

* @BayBookFest (#Berkeley/#BABF2023), 5/6-7
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…

* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), 5/10
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

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

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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…

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* 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:

* Author Talk: Cory Doctorow and @Annaleen in Conversation/@SFPublicLibrary


* The Next Chapter/CBC
cbc.ca/player/play/21…

* @mediadeathcult


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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/2023/05/04/ana…

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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.

My latest Medium column is "Weak Institutions: It's not a fair fight"

doctorow.medium.com/weak-instituti…

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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!

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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: @jjn1 (memex.naughtons.org).

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Nothing's more frustrating that watching the GOP smash norms and decency to advance policies that harm millions of Americas, unless it's that, plus Democratic officials stamping their feet and saying, "C'mon guys, *play fair*."

1/ Blind Justice as an old woman on a throne. Her head has been replaced with the blindfolded head of Lady Liberty. On one of her balance scales stand a Klansman, a gun-waving clown, and a sinister figure in a business-suit. On the other scale is a bucking Democratic mule. Watching this scene are a midcentury family - father, mother, young daughter - holding hands. In the background is a 19th century map of the USA.
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The GOP's game is called "constitutional hardball." Think: Mitch McConnell refusing to hold confirmation hearings on Obama's federal judiciary appointments, not never for Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat.

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Oct 15
Billionaires are *pretty confident* that they can't be taxed - not just that they *shouldn't* be taxed, but rather, that it is *technically impossible* to tax the ultra-rich. They're not shy about explaining why, either - and neither is their army of lickspittles.

1/ Uncle Sam as an old-fashioned cop with a gleaming IRS badge on his chest. He stands in a circle of wildly gesticulating, furious, old-fashioned rich guys. The background is a dark green, extremely magnified portrait of Benjamin Franklin from the middle of a US $100 bill.
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If it's impossible to tax billionaires, then anyone who demands that we tax billionaires is being childish. If taxing billionaires is impossible, then being mad that we're not taxing billionaires is like being mad at gravity.

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Oct 12
It's Saturday and any fule kno that this is the day for a linkdump, in which the links that couldn't be squeezed into the week's newsletter editions get their own showcase. Here's the previous 23 linkdumps:



1/ pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/A page from a 19th C catalog of ornaments cast in wood fiber, showing a miscellaneous assortment of these ornaments.
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Start your weekend with child's play! *Ada & Zangemann* is a picture book by @Kirschner and Sandra Brandstätter of @fsfe, telling the story of a greedy inventor who ensnares a town with his proprietary, remote-brickable gadgets.

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Inside: Prime's enshittified advertising; and more!

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.@TorBooks has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:

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And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:

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Prime's enshittified advertising: Don't touch that dial. No, seriously, DON'T.



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Epic Systems makes the dominant electronic health record (EHR) system in America; if you're a doctor, chances are you're *required* to use it. For each hour a doctor spends with a patient, they spend *two* hours on clinically useless bureaucratic data-entry on an Epic EHR.

1/ A crowded field hospital. In the foreground are massed bundles of vivid green US $100 bills; atop them stands a robed skeleton, drinking from a blood filled goblet; blood stains the skeleton's robe. In the background is a row of giant mainframes. Image: Flying Logos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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How could a product so manifestly unfit for purpose be the absolute market leader? Simple: as @kuttnerwrites describes in an excellent feature in @TheProspect, Epic may be a *clinical* disaster, but it's a profit-generating *miracle*:



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The American Dream, such as it is, used to be *two* dreams, one based on work and solidarity, the other on asset appreciation and disconnected individualism. We killed the first one.

1/ A rotting apartment living room; the Wall Street 'Charging Bull' statue is in one corner; from one of its horns dangles a sign reading 'FOR RENT WALL ST.' Through a crumbling doorway, we see an aristocrat laid out on a guillotine, about to be beheaded. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ Carlos Delgado (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_-_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg
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