This Saturday (May 20), I'll be at the #Gaithersburg Book Festival with my novel *Red Team Blues*:

gaithersburgbookfestival.org/f…

On May 22, I'm keynoting #PublicKnowledge's Emerging Tech conference in #DC:

eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech…

On May 23, I'll be in #Toronto for a book launch that's part of #WEPFest, a benefit for the *#WestEndPhoenix*, onstage with #DaveBidini (The #Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (#CitizenLab) and the #whistleblower Dr #NancyOlivieri:

westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfes…

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Rent control works: 30-year, federally guaranteed fixed-rate mortgages = rent control for homeowners.

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11037978…

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Cory Doctorow

2023-05-16 18:30:05

David Roth memorably described the job of neoliberal economists as finding "new ways to say 'actually, your boss is right.'" Not just your boss: for decades, economists have formed a bulwark against seemingly obvious responses to the most painful parts of our daily lives, from wages to education to health to shelter:

popula.com/2023/04/30/yakkin-a…

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Yakkin’ About ChatGPT, with David Roth

plus a SURPRISE BONUS

^Popula

Hey look at this

* Attorney General James Secures $615,000 from Companies that Supplied Fake Comments to Influence FCC’s Repeal of #NetNeutrality Rules ag.ny.gov/press-release/2023/a… (h/t @Slashdot@mastdon.cloud)

* Here Are the Winners of the 2022 #NebulaAwards! tor.com/2023/05/15/here-are-th…

* Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…

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#20yrsago #AaronSwartz's report from US #CopyrightOffice #DRM hearings aaronsw.com/2002/may14-1201

#15yrsago California may legalize #CommunistParty membership for state employees theguardian.com/world/2008/may…

#15yrsago California Supreme Court rules for #SameSexMarriage slate.com/news-and-politics/20…

#10yrsago Law profs and librarians to Congress: #GovernmentEdicts should not be restricted by copyright law.resource.org/pub/edicts.ht…

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#10yrsago Toronto mayor sprints out of community council event to stick fridge magnets on cars in the parking lot thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/1…

#5yrsago The secret, unaccountable location-tracking tool favored by dirty cops has been hacked (and it wasn’t hard) vice.com/en/article/gykgv9/sec…

#5yrsago Bay Area nurses protest, demanding removal of #MarkZuckerberg’s name from their hospital scmp.com/news/world/united-sta…

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#5yrsago #AjitPai: portrait of a Vichy nerd who transformed from debating-society darling to thin-skinned, brooding manbaby wired.com/story/ajit-pai-man-w…

#5yrsago #Comcast charges you $90 to “install” cable in houses that are already wired by Comcast arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago Zuck tells Parliament they’ll have to arrest him if they want him to testify techcrunch.com/2018/05/15/zuck…

#1yrago #AmysKitchen, a case-study in the problems with #consumerism pluralistic.net/2022/05/16/thr…

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Yesterday's threads: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11037374…

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Cory Doctorow

2023-05-15 16:54:57

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Ireland’s privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 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:

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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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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

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

* Public Knowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), May 22
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tech…

* WEPFest with Ron Diebert, Dave Bidini and Nancy Olivieri (#Toronto), May 23
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfes…

* #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
waterstones.com/events/an-even…

* 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…

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

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Recent appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism's Stranglehold on the Arts (News Beat)
radiopublic.com/news-beat-GKkd…

* Enshittification Part 2: The Mechanisms That Helped Big Digital Go Bad (@onthemedia)
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

* Slurry With The Turd On Top (Jordan, Jesse, Go!)
maximumfun.org/episodes/jordan…

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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"

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai…

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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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