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Social Quitting: How social media barons squandered their lock-in and made themselves obsolete.

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In "Social Quitting," my latest *Locus Magazine* column, I advance a theory to explain the precipitous #VibeShift in how many of us view the once-dominant social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and how it is that we have so quickly gone asking what we can do to get these services out of our lives to where we should go now that we're all ready to leave them:

locusmag.com/2023/01/commentar…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* What Went Wrong with Gaming? youtube.com/watch?v=g16heGLKlT… (h/t @fadhl3y)

* A Man Walks Into a Bar: In Which More Than Four Decades After My Father's Reluctant Night of Darts on West 54th Street I Finally Understand What Needs to Be Done lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction…

* Rewriting Cambridge Analytica/Pt 1: soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/…, pt 2 soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/…

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#10yrsago Positive externalities thrive online theguardian.com/technology/201…

#10yrsago How the Blues Brothers got made vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/…

#15yrsago Know Thyself: Myware vs. Spyware informationweek.com/it-life/do…

#15yrsago Premier of Alberta threatens to sue blogging uni student for registering a domain with his name in it daveberta.blogspot.com/2008/01…

#20yrsago Quark CEO reveals his contempt for his customers web.archive.org/web/2003020720…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_D…

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

* Library Learning Experience/American Library Association (#NewOrleans), Jan 27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doc…

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (UCL Faculty of Laws), Feb 1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2023/feb…

* Future of Arts, Culture & Technology, ACMI, (#Melbourne), Feb 14
acmi.net.au/whats-on/in-conver…

* Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum (#Canberra), Feb 17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doct…

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

My latest Medium column is "NYT: Binding Arbitration For Thee, But Not For Me"

doctorow.medium.com/nyt-bindin…

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Is it just me, or does that smoke cloud look like a caricature of an angry politician with big ears?