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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Ostromizing democracy; and more!

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

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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.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1654148556985384965

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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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1653809249795944484

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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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Today's top sources: @jjn1 (memex.naughtons.org).

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