Paying for it doesn't make it a market: But competition does.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11231365…

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Hey look at this

* Funding for Disability Justice & Tech! bookmaniac.org/2024/04/20/fund…

* Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director theregister.com/2024/04/21/mic…

* a proper cup of tea downpour.games/~terry/a-proper… (h/t Trivium)

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#20yrsago Bill O’Reilly mistakes Globe and Mail for Socialist Worker web.archive.org/web/2004042600…

#20yrsago Silmarillion in 1,000 words web.archive.org/web/2006042720…

#20yrsago London: The (Magnificent) Biography memex.craphound.com/2004/04/22…

#15yrsago UAE royal caught torturing man on video abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?i…

#15yrsago Joe Biden promises a blank check to the entertainment cartel web.archive.org/web/2011062405…

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#15yrsago Entertainment industry’s greedy lobbying is their undoing web.archive.org/web/2009042508…;

#15yrsago JG Ballard eulogized by John Clute independent.co.uk/news/obituar…

#10yrsago Appeals court orders Obama administration to disclose the legal theory for assassination of Americans arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Shakespeare’s Beehive: analysis of newly discovered dictionary that Shakespeare owned and annotated endlessbookshelf.net/beehive.h…

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#10yrsago Reddit’s /r/technology demoted over scandal of secret censorship that blocked Internet freedom stories bbc.com/news/technology-271007…

#5yrsago Facebook has hired the Patriot Act’s co-author and “day-to-day manager” to be its new general counsel thehill.com/policy/technology/…

#5yrsago Google walkout organizers say they’re being retaliated against for demanding ethical standards wired.com/story/google-walkout…

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#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren’s latest proposal: cancel student debt, make college free medium.com/@teamwarren/im-call…

#5yrsago Heiress “Instagram influencer” whose parents are accused of paying a $500K bribe to get her into USC has trademark application rejected for punctuation errors huffpost.com/entry/olivia-jade…

#5yrsago Zuck turned American classrooms into nonconsensual laboratories for his pet educational theories, and now they’re rebelling nytimes.com/2019/04/21/technol…

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#5yrsago Platform cooperativism (or, how to turn gig-economy jobs into $22.25/h jobs) wired.com/story/when-workers-c…

#5yrsago A secret Finnish subculture of women and girls who ride hobbyhorses comes out of the shadows youtube.com/watch?v=imW7EGQcJc…

#5yrsago Most Republican voters were Trumpists before Trump, and most of the rest have converted since 2016 crookedtimber.org/2019/04/21/t…

#5yrsago Stop & Shop strike convinces 75% of loyal customers to take business elsewhere bostonglobe.com/business/2019/…

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#5yrsago After Notre Dame bailout Yellow Vests urge more Victor Hugo tributes, starting with “Les Miserables” commondreams.org/news/2019/04/…

#1yrago How workers get trapped by "bondage fees" pluralistic.net/2023/04/21/bon…

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Satuurday's threads: Greedflation, but for prisoners; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11230230…

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My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Or…

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

booksoup.com/book/978180429124…

Both are national bestsellers!

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) 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:

* The Bezzle at Book Passage (Corte Madera, Marin), Apr 27
bookpassage.com/event/cory-doc…

* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-…

* Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
wordfest.com/2024/event/wordfe…

* Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
eventbrite.ca/e/solo-reading-c…

* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfesti…

* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
oreilly.com/live-events/tim-or…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
laemmle.com/film/finding-money…

* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15…

* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
media-ecology.org/convention

* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
aallnet.org/conference/agenda/…

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Recent appearances:

* Show Me The Money Club (The Rideshare Guy)
youtube.com/watch?v=ZCETi3XqSd…

* NUOVO BARETTO UTOPIA
videoteca.kenobit.it/w/azRmQBC…

* How is life becoming “enshitified"? (Open To Debate)
soundcloud.com/canada2020/open…

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me in THIS SATURDAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

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if it's not too much trouble, could you include some sort of hashtag in your long threads? You're a great follow, but the long threads are taking up half of my feed, and I tend to click through to your blog to read them there anyways 🫤

@ianburnette You can filter on the CW. See here for more:

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oh, duh. Thank you for taking the time to respond.🙂