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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes'; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/11/ugl…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight (May 11) at 7PM, I'm in #CALGARY for @WordfestTweets with my novel *Red Team Blues*; I'll be hosted by Peter Hemminger at the Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor.

wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…

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'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes': The pervasive, predatory sleaze of Homevestor, "the #1 homebuyer in the USA."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1656749808030482433

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Hey look at this

* Andreessen Horowitz's State of #Crypto report: Narrative over numbers newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andreessen-h…

* The #McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse thebaffler.com/outbursts/bad-…

* Goodbye, #Dooce waxy.org/2023/05/goodby…

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#20yrsago Lying, plagiarising #NYT writer outed, ousted nytimes.com/2003/05/11/nat…

#20yrsago #COGECO’s Terms of Service: Assholes or idiots? memex.craphound.com/2003/05/11/cog…

#10yrsago My Re:publica talk: “It’s not a fax machine connected to a waffle iron”

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#10yrsago What makes a project remixable? mako.cc/academic/hill_…

#10yrsago Bike lanes led to 49% increase in retail sales web.archive.org/web/2013031522…

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#5yrsago FanFlick Editor: an entry in @EFF’s Catalog of Missing Devices eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

#5yrsago Here are the official lyrics to the #MrSoftee jingle thedailymeal.com/eat/mister-sof…

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#5yrsago Bite-Sized #Linux: a zine collecting awesome *nix tutorial webtoons wizardzines.gumroad.com/l/ltywT

#5yrsago West Virginia Senator laughed at the idea that hating on teachers would bite him in the ass – then he lost his job theintercept.com/2018/05/11/wes…

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#5yrsago Pentagon sucks up to Trump by censoring mentions of #ClimateChange in its global risks assessment washingtonpost.com/news/energy-en…

#5yrsago Teens are cyberbullying themselves as a form of self-harm npr.org/sections/healt…

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#5yrsago Indigenous Canadians sue Canadian government over decades of secret, involuntary, inhumane medical experiments theguardian.com/world/2018/may…

#5yrsago Individual FBI agents can be sued for blackmailing potential informants with no-fly list threats techdirt.com/2018/05/11/cou…

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#1yrago The (billionaires') case against billionaires pluralistic.net/2022/05/11/a-d…

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Yesterday's threads: Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1656277150146920450

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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 @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…

* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @CymeraF, 6/3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

* 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:

* Slurry With The Turd On Top (@JordanJesseGo)
maximumfun.org/episodes/jorda…

* @MarkTLive


* Enshittification Part 1: Why Every Platform Goes Bad (@onthemedia)
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

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