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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How to save the new from Big Tech; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/18/ste…

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Saturday (5/20), I'm at @GburgBookFest with *Red Team Blues*:

gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:

eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…

5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:

westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…

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How to save the new from Big Tech: Four prescriptions from EFF.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1659215429846589442

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Hey look at this

* On Background: Crypto Skeptic Proven Right | Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

* The Cold Calculations clarkesworldmagazine.com/ogden_12_21/ (h/t Arnon Clark)

* #GreenNewDeal Simulator molleindustria.itch.io/green-new-deal… (h/t Davie Callahan)

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#10yrsago Top UK government officials tamper with inquest into Brit assassinated by Russian spies in London, suppress evidence theguardian.com/world/2013/may…

#10yrsago #AssociatedPress quietly nukes its absurd #DRM-for-news system techdirt.com/2013/05/17/aps…

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#10yrsago Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation memex.craphound.com/2013/05/18/bla…

#10yrsago India’s OMICS Publishing Group threatens scholarly critic with $1 billion lawsuit, jail time arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#5yrsago People don’t care about “#NetNeutrality”: they care about “internet freedom” which is the same as “freedom” wired.com/story/net-neut…

#5yrsago After his viral racist rant, #AaronSchlossberg’s law office lost its lease nypost.com/2018/05/17/rac…

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#5yrsago Serial racist: for years, New Yorkers have been videoing their encounters with ranting racist lawyer Aaron Schlossberg cnn.com/2018/05/17/us/…

#5yrsago War criminal #HenryKissinger: “#AI is the end of the Enlightenment” memex.craphound.com/2018/05/18/war…

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#5yrsago Congress wants to extend the #copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years wired.com/story/congress…

#1yrago A(nother) way in which #Facebook is the 21st Century's tobacco industry pluralistic.net/2022/05/18/tur…

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Yesterday's threads: The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer); and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1658889030640214016

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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:

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

* @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…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* 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…

* @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…

* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, 6/8 (#Berlin)
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…

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Recent appearances:

* Shakedowns, Shell Games & Silicon Valley Shenanigans @MMTpodcast
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/170-cory-docto…

* Chokepoint Capitalism's Arts Stranglehold @USNewsBeat
radiopublic.com/news-beat-GKkd…

* Enshittification 2: How Big Tech curdled @onthemedia
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - and previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

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My latest @Medium column is "Google's AI Hype Circle: We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard"

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hyp…

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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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