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in reply to Cory Doctorow

Tonight (May 5), I'll be at the Books, Inc in #MountainView with @mkapor for my new novel *Red Team Blues*:

booksinc.net/event/cory-doctor…

Tomorrow (May 6), I'll be in #Berkeley at the Bay Area Bookfest for a 3:30PM event with #GlynnWashington:

baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…

Sunday (May 7), it's an 11AM event with #WendyLiu:

baybookfest.org/session/chokep…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

Look at all the great stuff we lost because of inflation scare-talk: We swapped pandemic aid, new spending and minimum wage hikes for wage suppression and mass layoffs.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11031691…

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Late last year #JosephStiglitz and #RegmiIra published a thoroughgoing analysis of the causes of inflation, finding a mix of price-gouging, capacity failure, supply chain problems, higher rents (thanks to work-from-home) and shifts in the kinds of goods in demand (hand-santizer, home exercise equipment, etc):

pluralistic.net/2022/12/14/med…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

Hey look at this

* The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris publicdomainreview.org/essay/e…

* How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed pudding.cool/2023/05/dark-patt…

* Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? newyorker.com/science/annals-o… (h/t Kottke)

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#15yrsago #NelsonMandela and the ANC are on the US terrorist watchlist and need waivers to enter the country usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/w…

#15yrsago HOWTO make a chili mister web.archive.org/web/2013031713…

#15yrsago #HomelandSecurity charter school will train tomorrow’s prison guards delawareonline.com/story/enter…

#10yrsago #BenLaurie on #Bitcoin links.org/files/decentralised-…

#10yrsago #DefenseDistributed claims working 3D printed handgun forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg…

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#5yrsago #NSA report discloses it tripled its #surveillance of Americans in 2017 reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyb…

#5yrsago Britain’s Great Firewall blocks access to official Disney sites, internet safety guides, VPNs, and coding sites for kids torrentfreak.com/uk-internet-f…

#5yrsago UK local elections: Conservative party forgets to alter placeholder text before distributing campaign literature independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…

#1yrago A New York law to end to Wall Street's pension ripoff pluralistic.net/2022/05/05/meg…

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

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C…

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

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700706…

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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:

* Red Team Blues at Books, Inc with @mkapor (#MountainView), May 5
booksinc.net/event/cory-doctor…

* Bay Area Bookfest (#Berkeley), May 6/7
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d…

* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), May 10
events.linuxfoundation.org/ope…

* Massy Books Red Team Blues event with Sean Cranbury (#Vancouver), May 10
eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blues…

* Wordfest (#Calgary), May 11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wordfe…

* #Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/f…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* 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
howthelightgetsin.org/events/t…

* #HowTheLightGetsIn (Hay), May 29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/t…

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), May 29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctor…

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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
waterstones.com/events/in-conv…

* UCL Peter Kirstein Lecture, Jun 1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirst…

* #Cymera23 Festival, Jun 3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-…

* Red Team Blues with #MarthaLaneFox at the #BritishLibrary, Jun 5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-c…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Re:publica keynote, Jun 7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-ke…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

indeed. It's victim blaming at its finest, to claim that wages are responsible for inflation.

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