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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues

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It's #IndependentBookstoreDay! I *love* bookstores, especially indies. I'm a recovering bookseller (love you, @BakkaPhoenix!) and an inveterate, absurdly optimistic book buyer - this weekend, I bought 3 books at the @latimes #BookFest, from @PagesMB and Octavia's Bookshelf!

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Supporting indie bookstores doesn't mean foregoing the convenience of buying online. @librofm pioneered a model where you nominate your favorite local bookstore, which receives part of the proceeds from every audiobook you buy at Libro (where all the audiobooks are DRM-free).

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How workers get trapped by "bondage fees"; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part five; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/21/bon…

#Pluralistic

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I'm at the @latimes #Bookfest this weekend:

events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…

Apr 23 at 12, I'm on a panel called "Covering Silicon Valley."

Apr 24 at 11, I'm signing for @CalBookClub at booth 111. At 12:30, I'm on a panel called "The Accidental Detective."

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How workers get trapped by "bondage fees": Two-sided markets always lead to enshittification.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1649423151762219009

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part four; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/lin…

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Today (Apr 21), I'm speaking in #Chicago at the @StiglerCenter's #Antitrust and #Competition Conference:

chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…

This weekend (Apr 23/24), I'm at the @latimes #Bookfest:

events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…

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Company that makes millions spying on students will get to sue a whistleblower: The BC Appeals Court drops a *terrible* decision in Ian Linkletter's anti-SLAPP against Proctorio.

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Iowa's starvation strategy; The Red Team Blues tour; Red Team Blues Chapter One, part three; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/19/wha…

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Tomorrow (Apr 21), I'm speaking in #Chicago at the @StiglerCenter's #Antitrust and #Competition Conference:

chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…

This weekend (Apr 22/23), I'm at the @latimes #Bookfest:

events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…

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Iowa's starvation strategy: Maybe the cruelty IS the point?

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: SVB bailouts for everyone - except affordable housing projects; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/15/soc…

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There's just TWO DAYS left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible won't carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

redteamblues.com

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SVB bailouts for everyone - except affordable housing projects: Even the shareholders got billions.

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Is antitrust anti-labor? and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/14/aim…

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There's 3 days left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my upcoming anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

redteamblues.com

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Is antitrust anti-labor? tl;dr: no.

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg…

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There's 5 days left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my upcoming anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

redteamblues.com

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Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination.

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The problem with economic models; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all…

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I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, an anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:

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The problem with economic models: Ideology disguised as math.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1642942567288389652

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead;; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pix…

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Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead. Pixsy's predators no longer welcome.

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik…

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We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1641439310137249792

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/29/hob…

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Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1641091348450234368

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: What comes after neoliberalism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/ima…

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What comes after neoliberalism? "There is no alternative" is really a demand, namely, "Stop trying to think of an alternative!"

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John Basham 🇺🇲

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BREAKING: Mystery Surrounds @FAA"National Security" Order Of A Ground Stop To Halt All West Coast Air Traffic Yesterday After North Korean Missile Launch. @DeptofDefense Aircraft Were Also Scrambled! (1/x) thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4…

CONTD: Audio Of Ground Stop "National Security Threat" Yesterday...Ground Control Audio #Honolulu #Hawaii (2/x)

CONTD: Audio Of Ground Stop "National Security Threat" Yesterday...#Burbank #California Air Traffic Control (ATC) Audio Issuing Landing Orders. (3/x)

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Cory Doctorow

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I'm more of a Charter-@GetSpectrum hostage than a customer: I need the internet to earn my living, and my town (#Burbank) has signed an exclusive deal with Charter, so I send them $134.99/mo for some of the worst internet in California.

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It turns out that Charter doesn't stop abusing you when you stop being a customer: the company is now sending threatening letters ("offers") to ex-customers demanding that they sign up again on pain of a bad credit report.

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That's not how Charter puts it, of course. They say they're extending a lifeline to ex-customers whose years-unpaid bills are in collection, trashing their credit.

theverge.com/2021/10/12/227…

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Cory Doctorow

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One of the weird ironies of living in the US and having family, friends and colleagues abroad is the vast, iniquitous gap in vaccine availability based on where you live, and, more particularly, whether you live in a poor country or a rich one.

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#VaccineApartheid is a global terror and horror, but that's not the "ironic" part. That would be the American vaccine deniers who have effectively killed the dream of herd immunity, and taken anti-vax from a threat to public health to a threat to civilization itself.

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Cory Doctorow

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Tinfoil Hats #sandbags #chainlink #plywood #deniers #deadinside #jfc #burbank

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

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Magnolia Park #Burbank #blm

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

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Hey, @burbankca - LA County is starting its curfews at 9PM. You're sending us all to our rooms without supper at 5PM. There is no mass unrest in #Burbank. We've seen small, peaceful protests.

https://twitter.com/BurbankCA/status/1267910006667542528

The local merchants who boarded up at the suggestion of Burbank PD covered their storefronts with #BLM signs. What conceivable justification do you have for this onerous condition that you have unilaterally imposed on a while city?

Our employers expect us to be online until 5PM. How are our families to exercise together? When do dog owners walk their dogs?

Honestly, I expected better from this city and its council. This is bad governance.

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Covered Dish People

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.@GetSpectrum is the garbage company I have to buy my internet from, due to their monopolistic arrangement with my city, #Burbank.

Charter doesn't give its field techs hazard pay or PPE. Instead they get $25 gift cards for (closed down) restaurants.

pluralistic.net/2020/03/28/unr…

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Charter's CEO, Thomas Rutledge, an asshole, decreed that back-office staff would have to keep going to work, even if they could work from home, on the theory that they would be more productive under the watchful eye of their managers.

pluralistic.net/2020/03/18/diy…

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(He forced a whistleblower who complained to resign)

You will never, ever guess what happened next.

At least 230 Charter employees now have covid-19. NY AG Letitia James has opened an inquiry into corporate culpability in their illness.

cnbc.com/2020/04/21/new…

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Bernie Beats Trump

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I've been working on digital human rights for nearly 20 years now, and I remember how the idea was once widely mocked as a distraction.

Back in 2009, Finland was derided for declaring broadband a human right.

cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/1…

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And even by Malcolm Gladwell standards, this 2010 take on the uselessness of online activism has not aged well.

newyorker.com/magazine/2010/…

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The GOP and @AjitPaiFCC's attacks on the #Lifeline fund to bring broadband to rural and disadvantaged Americans are modern versions of the infection that says that the digital divide is a frivolity.

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