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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/05/wmd…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight (5/5), I'm at @BooksIncStores #MountainView with @mkapor for *Red Team Blues*:

booksinc.net/event/cory-doc…

Sat, I'm in #Berkeley for #BABF2023 at 1530h with @glynnwashington:

baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…

Sun, it's an 11h event with @dellsystem:

baybookfest.org/session/chokep…

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Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk: We swapped pandemic aid, new spending and minimum wage hikes for wage suppression and mass layoffs.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1654531226592768000

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Hey look at this

* The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris publicdomainreview.org/essay/ether-dr…

* How companies use #DarkPatterns to keep you subscribed pudding.cool/2023/05/dark-p…

* Will #AI Become the New #McKinsey? newyorker.com/science/annals… (h/t @kottke)

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#15yrsago #NelsonMandela and the #ANC are on the US #TerroristWatchlist and need waivers to enter the country usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/200…

#15yrsago HOWTO make a chili mister web.archive.org/web/2013031713…

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#15yrsago #HomelandSecurity charter school will train tomorrow’s prison guards delawareonline.com/story/entertai…

#10yrsago @BenL on #Bitcoin links.org/files/decentra…

#10yrsago #DefenseDistributed claims working 3D printed handgun forbes.com/sites/andygree…

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#5yrsago #NSA report discloses that the agency tripled its #surveillance of Americans in 2017 reuters.com/article/us-usa…

#5yrsago Britain’s Great Firewall blocks access to official Disney sites, internet safety guides, VPNs, and coding sites for kids torrentfreak.com/uk-internet-fi…

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#5yrsago UK local elections: Conservative party forgets to alter placeholder text before distributing campaign literature independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

#1yrago A New York law to end to Wall Street's pension ripoff pluralistic.net/2022/05/05/meg…

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Yesterday's threads: Ostromizing democracy; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1654153307944890368

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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: @davidsirota (twitter.com/davidsirota).

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