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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/03/whe…

#Pluralistic

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Today (3/6) at 1:30PM, I'm in #Edinburgh for @CymeraF on a panel with Nina Allen and @iannmcdonald:

cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

Mon 5/6 at 7:15PM, I'm at the #BritishLibrary with my book *Red Team Blues* for an event hosted by @Marthalanefox:

bl.uk/events/an-even…

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Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things: We just need to tax the rich.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1664909663471632388

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#15yrsago #JohnMcCain vows to continue Bush’s illegal #WarrantlessWiretapping program wired.com/2008/06/mccain…

#10yrsago #OccupyGezi: the People’s Bulldozer occupygezipics.tumblr.com/post/520080005…

#10yrsago Meet austerity’s millionaires theguardian.com/politics/2013/…

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#10yrsago Gas-mask dervish: #occupygezi

https://twitter.com/joeman42/status/341492885650292738

#5yrsago #PrivateEquity bosses took $200m out of #ToysRUs and crashed the company, lifetime employees got $0 in severance washingtonpost.com/news/business/…

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#5yrsago @SenSanders rallies #Disneyland employees for a $15 #MinimumWage thehill.com/homenews/senat…

#5yrsago UK consumer review magazine Which?: your #SmartHome is spying on you, from your TV to your toothbrush web.archive.org/web/2018060322…

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#5yrsago America is the world’s first poor rich country eand.co/why-america-is…

#5yrsago #Zuckerberg blows off #Facebook shareholders’ demand for transparency, says he’s committed to transparency mercurynews.com/2018/06/01/cor…

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#5yrsago Illinois votes to eliminate inmates’ doctor visit co-pays, equivalent to one month’s wages themarshallproject.org/2018/05/30/the…

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Yesterday's threads: The long, bloody lineage of private equity's looting; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1664681163787468806

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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:

* @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…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @rightscon, "#Interoperability: from buzzword to a map of solutions," Jun 6 (#CostaRica):
rightscon.org/program/

* @republica keynote, 6/7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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Recent appearances:

* How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords (@CANADALAND)
canadaland.com/podcast/888-ho…

* Most AI is not artificial or intelligent (with @jamesbridle)


* @machinekillspod
soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

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

My latest Medium column is "Ideas Lying Around: Milton Friedman was a monster, but he wasn't wrong about this"

doctorow.medium.com/ideas-lying-ar…

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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: @kottke (kottke.org).

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