Venture predation: A pile of shit this big MUST have a pony underneath it!

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Cory Doctorow

2023-05-19 15:03:10

They said it couldn't happen. After decades of #antitrust enforcement against #PredatoryPricing - selling goods below cost to kill existing competitors and prevent new ones from arising - the #ChicagoSchool of neoliberal #economists "proved" that predatory pricing didn't exist and that the courts could stand down and stop busting companies for it.

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Hey look at this

* #DebtCeiling: What Are þe Fallback Threat Points in þe Case of "No Deal"? braddelong.substack.com/p/debt…

* ‘Sorry To Bother You’ Director #BootsRiley On #WGA Strike, Struggle, Solidarity, Sacrifice & #AI deadline.com/2023/05/wga-strik… (h/t Payday Report)

* Today I learned that #ChurchMolestationLiabilityInsurance is a thing that exists jwz.org/blog/2023/05/today-i-l…

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#20yrsago Pal Mickey: A location-aware wireless famulus for #WaltDisneyWorld web.archive.org/web/2003052319…

#20yrsago #PressPlay being sold to #Napster nytimes.com/2003/05/19/busines…

#15yrsago UK gov’t wants database of every phone call and email news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593…

#15yrsago Microsoft: we listen to broadcasters, not customers eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/micr…

#10yrsago What the #Mounties pirate pirateparty.ca/2013/05/17/rcmp…

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#10yrago #PatentLawyers: Help! The evil Makers won’t let us apply for bullshit #3DPrinting patents! finnegan.com/en/insights/artic…

#5yrsago An interview with #JordanPeterson, who believes in witches and dragons somethingawful.com/news/jordan…

#5yrsago A data-broker has been quietly selling realtime access to your cellphone’s location, and they suck, so anyone could get it for free krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tr…

#1yrago The impossible scam of US drug plans pluralistic.net/2022/05/19/the…

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#1yrago Your mom is a tech ninja pluralistic.net/2022/05/19/the…

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Yesterday's threads: How to save the news from Big Tech; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2023-05-18 15:17:51

Today's threads (a thread)

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

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

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: How to save the new from Big Tech (18 May 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:

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

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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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Wed, Apr 26th 6pm: Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel HB

Signing with Cory Doctorow

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
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* Public Knowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), May 22
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* WEPFest with Ron Diebert, Dave Bidini and Nancy Olivieri (#Toronto), May 23
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* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 28
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* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 29
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* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), May 29
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with Christian Riley (#Nottingham), May 30
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* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (#Manchester), May 31
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* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture, Jun 1 (#London):
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* #Cymera23 Festival, Jun 3 (#Edinburgh)
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* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
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* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, Jun 8 (#Berlin)
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-d…

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Recent appearances:

* Crime and Crypto | CYBER (Vice Motherboard)
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* Shakedowns, Shell Games & Other Silicon Valley Shenanigans (MMT Podcast)
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* Chokepoint Capitalism's Stranglehold on the Arts (News Beat)
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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"

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Google’s AI Hype Circle - Cory Doctorow - Medium

Next Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.

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