#UlyssesPacts are how wise people protect themselves from themselves

https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f

#FLOSS #CreativeCommons #IrrevocableLicenses #UlyssesWasAHacker

How things fail is more important than how they work

https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f

#HardWonLessons #WisdomOfAge #GracefulFailureModes

The Wit and Wisdom of #GeorgeWBush (a very slim volume)

https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f

#Facebook #Twitter #Bluesky #Threads #Rugpulls #NonconsensualFuckabilityRatingService

Fool Me Twice We Don't Get Fooled Again: There's a crucial difference between federatable and federated.

https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f

#Bluesky #Threads #Mastodon #Fediverse #Federation #SwitchingCosts #UlyssesPacts

nostr:npub19hh6u29e5qf4pdlaw8yc6y247j5udd5ux5xjepx3h2m35f9xhyjs0k730x Thank you!

The First Big #Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-first-big-antitrust-trial-of

nostr:npub19hh6u29e5qf4pdlaw8yc6y247j5udd5ux5xjepx3h2m35f9xhyjs0k730x To be clear, my editor (the wonderful Patrick Nielsen Hayden) knew that this is a Guthrie quote

nostr:npub1ml0men8gul8zkf59vu2pg9fmlkmhu0frscmzzvnzeqkdyre3dewsted9z6 Thanks, Thomas!

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The First Big #Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-first-big-antitrust-trial-of

nostr:npub1ujenq5vc5arnt2ted64c97rt2ljuax8xwxhaeg6j9fq9z4fxs7fqcyyxv9 thank you!

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My latest Medium column is "Microincentives and Enshittification: How the Curse of Bigness wrecked Google Search"

https://doctorow.medium.com/microincentives-and-enshittification-574290ea196f

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Recent appearances:

* #HauntedMansion #GhostPost Panel Live From #MidsummerScream

https://dizneycoasttocoast.libsyn.com/haunted-mansion-ghost-post-panel-live-from-midsummer-scream-disney-podcast-episode-1027

* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)

https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071

* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)

https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Armadillocon (#Austin), Aug 4-6

https://armadillocon.org/d45/

* #MediumDay (online), Aug 12

https://medium.com/tag/medium-day

* nostr:npub14qsg3uuyk2qehlcamwlsjl4caxrf25h72w4mk0p5ty3vtwg2fnns75qwuh (#LasVegas), Aug 12

https://defcon.org/

* #BurningMan Center Camp, 1430h, Aug 29

https://playaevents.burningman.org/2023/playa_events/03/

* nostr:npub1sqfnxau480pnvm0t258kdrj5u2u72zwm2kh7tk3qf6lxtqkwvlmqgn5skr Awards (#SanFrancisco), Sept 14

https://www.eff.org/awards/effawards/2023

* An Evening with #VESchwab (#DesMoines), Oct 2

https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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Yesterday's threads: Fighting junk fees is "woke"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110832897966056632

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#5yrsago The UK’s largest #EstateAgency is on the verge of bankruptcy https://wolfstreet.com/2018/08/03/uk-housing-downturn-pushes-biggest-real-estate-agency-with-10000-employees-to-brink-shares-collapse/

#5yrsago America’s big cities are increasingly home to people living in their cars https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-americans-are-living-in-their-vehicles-amid-high-housing-prices/

#1yrago #Uber's still not profitable: An effective wealth transfer of $2.8 billion from labor to capital in just three months https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/05/a-lousy-taxi/#a-giant-asterisk

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#10yrsago #WilWheaton’s funny, raunchy comedy set http://www.alphageekradio.com/2013/07/ag-radio-w00tstock-50-story-time-with.html

#10yrsago Raising a daughter not to be ‘nice’ https://archive.nytimes.com/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/i-do-not-want-my-daughter-to-be-nice/

#10yrsago Titanic lump of fat & wet-wipes dislodged from sewer https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/08/london-fatberg-17-ton-ball-of-fat-found-in-london-s-sewer.html

#10yrsago The From Hell Companion, including 7-year-old #HayleyCampbell’s gory ways-to-die drawings https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/05/the-from-hell-companion-including-7-year-old-hayley-campbells-gory-ways-to-die-drawings/

#10yrsago Making sense of “#Beanish,” #XKCD’s synthetic language https://beanishlang.wordpress.com

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