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@doctorow Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK posts on X about money, lisbon, web summit, twitter the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 10519 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence finance #4804 technology brands travel destinations social networks events #1334 countries stocks celebrities automotive brands

Social topic influence money #1666, lisbon #309, web summit #18, twitter #2270, hay #1022, debt, 100k, york, elon musk #216, los angeles #574

Top assets mentioned Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) IBM (IBM) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"He's also made it abundantly clear that he considers America's (former) allies to be geopolitical and economic competitors and that US tech is one of the primary weapons he will use to wage war on the world. 25/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:35Z 470.5K followers, 1214 engagements

""Night of the Cat Goddess" Vampirella #96 (1969) Art by Jose Ortiz"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:21Z 470.5K followers, 2015 engagements

"1966 Spider-Man Official Superhero Club Button"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:21Z 470.5K followers, 1948 engagements

"Private debt is a drag on the debtor. State debt is generative. It creates the roads the hospitals the schools the educated and healthy populace needed for the private sector. 34/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-04T13:28Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Halloween Pinup of the Day.Dorothy Dix"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-14T19:13Z 470.5K followers, 4066 engagements

"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: How to fix the UK housing crisis; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:59Z 470.4K followers, 3230 engagements

"I used to occasionally guest-lecture at an international relations grad program at the Central European University in Budapest. 19/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:35Z 470.5K followers, 1154 engagements

"Hands weaving magnetic-core memory IBM Poughkeepsie New York 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T11:25Z 470.5K followers, 2473 engagements

"Journey Escape for the Atari 2600 1982"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:20Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"Banks are "fiscal agents" of the national bank and they are permitted to create money this way - and then charge you rent (interest) on that money they can create for free. 50/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:35Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Mad Tea Party July 1960"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-17T11:34Z 470.5K followers, 1707 engagements

"But they don't have a long time: the massive GPUs that power AI's "foundation models" and cost six- or seven-figures each burn out remarkably quickly. 5/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.5K followers, 1003 engagements

"Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Burbank: Burbank Book Festival Nov X * Lisbon: A post-American enshittification-resistant internet with Rabble (Web Summit) Nov XX 19/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-02T22:09Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"Worldcom CEO Bernie Ebbers deserved what he got and worse. The AI bubble is on its way to sucking up a trillion dollars and not all of that money is coming from Saudi royals hedge fund bastards and Elon Musk's credulous creditors. 20/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels" a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC about Ponzi schemes techbros and the dawn of enshittification: 7/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:59Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"Phantom Lady #15 (1947) Cover by Matt Baker"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-14T20:50Z 470.4K followers, 2279 engagements

"TFW your book has been on sale for XX HOURS and your editor tells you that it's just gone into its FOURTH printing"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-10T02:16Z 470.4K followers, 33.4K engagements

"I'm on a tour with my new book Enshittification Catch me next in Los Angeles Calgary and San Francisco Full schedule with dates and links at: 2/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:37Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"Oric Atmos Home Computer (UK 1984)"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-17T11:10Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"So what kind of bubble is AI That's the $X trillion question: Before I get to that let me be clear here: bubbles are always bad. 18/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"George Marks Man Reclining"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:20Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"This privacy-preserving cheap-like-borscht component adds a voice-activated conversational assistant to a device sipping power like the clock on your microwave running on a processor that costs less than a pack of AA batteries. It's seriously fucking cool. 41/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:26Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"When you take out a 100k mortgage the bank adds 100k to your account without taking it from anywhere else. 49/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:35Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Rochelle Hudson 1930's"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-01T21:32Z 470.4K followers, 2969 engagements

"Yesterday's threads: Microsoft Tear Down That Wall and more 6"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:37Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"Dula-Schulhaus (1930-33) in Lucerne Switzerland by Albert Zeyer"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-12T20:42Z 470.5K followers, 2970 engagements

"Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Lisbon: A post-American enshittification-resistant internet with Rabble (Web Summit) Nov XX * Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours Nov XX 18/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-09-30T16:23Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"Deepseek the legendary Chinese open source AI model consumes a fraction of the resources gobbled up by the likes of OpenAI. Deepseek's launch was so impressive that it knocked $589b off of Nvidia's stock price the day it shipped: 32/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:24Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"What's more the digital locks that EUCD X protects are almost all to be found in American products. Only a handful of EU manufacturers rely on these and they use them to in terrible ways. 49/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:39Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Burbank: Burbank Book Festival Nov X * Lisbon: A post-American enshittification-resistant internet with Rabble (Web Summit) Nov XX 23/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-03T17:51Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"With 30+% of the S&P XXX tied up in seven AI companies' stock the coming crash will definitely escape containment and crash the whole damned economy. 23/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York 1909"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T11:25Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"The Tomb of Arn Yonson: Gossips in the Comeback Inn in the Barony of Blackmoor say the famed warrior Arn Yonson has not been seen in many months. Rumors say he fell in battle and was buried with his magical battle axe somewhere in the mountains near the Great Ocean. After buying a few rounds of drinks your party hears a tip about an old fortified mercenary stronghold in those mountains with a large system of catacombs"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-01T21:32Z 470.5K followers, 2690 engagements

"When a bank loans you 100k to buy a house 100k in new money is created. Banks don't raid other depositors' accounts for your loan - they make new money out of thin air. 18/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.5K followers, 1962 engagements

"Promotional photos of the Hotel Utah Salt Lake City Utah 1975"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:20Z 470.5K followers, 2164 engagements

"The Mad Halloween Trick-or-Treatment (MAD #43 December 1958)"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-17T11:10Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"How do we win those Boomers over and stop them from scuttling affordable housing (again) That's where the second proposal kicks in: AHA (the "Affordable Housing Authority"). 39/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:33Z 470.4K followers, 1085 engagements

"Ork glyphs from Waaargh the Orks a Rogue Trader supplement by Nigel Stillmann & Bryan Ansell Games Workshop 1990"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T23:09Z 470.4K followers, 3092 engagements

"Trump has destroyed investor confidence in the US economy. The only paths to returns today are flushing your money into the crypto casino. 37/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-04T13:29Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"#20yrsago Logic and math riddles from Slashdot #20yrsago Yiddish postcard gallery #20yrsago JibJabs legal threats over the use of X seconds of their video #20yrsago Wal-Mart photofinishing narcs out student who made anti-Bush poster #20yrsago Buddhist monks deploy saffron flak vests and armored monkmobiles #15yrsago Mitt Romney got a bestseller by demanding bulk-purchases of his books in exchange for lectures #15yrsago Every terrible thing Canadas Stephen Harper government has done in the past four years #10yrsago 1980: the Director of the FBI mixes up KISS & The Who confusing the hell out of"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:37Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"These two policies create "winners all round." New home buyers can afford a home. Banks get interest from AHA bonds to offset losses from limits on mortgage lending. Current home owners get a cushion to protect their net worth even as homes become more affordable. 62/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:37Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"The loser is the investment sector the City boys who buy and sell mortgage debt. And you know fuck those guys. 63/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:37Z 470.4K followers, 3676 engagements

"Over a 25-year mortgage your monthly payments will be 20.6k/year more than half of your disposable income. Not only is this more than you can afford - it's also so much that you just won't get a mortgage from a bank. 45/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:34Z 470.4K followers, 1102 engagements

"Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Lisbon: A post-American enshittification-resistant internet with Rabble (Web Summit) Nov XX * Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours Nov XX 20/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-07T15:42Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"I'm on a tour with my new book Enshittification Catch me next in Los Angeles Calgary and San Francisco Full schedule with dates and links at: 43/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:26Z 470.5K followers, 2332 engagements

"Governments don't need to "borrow" to create money any more than Starbucks needs to "borrow" to create gift cards redeemable for future mochalattafrappacheenaspressae. 33/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-04T13:27Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Saturday's threads: The curious intertwined history of climate and digital rights activism; and more 6/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:59Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"Monday's threads: How to fix the UK housing crisis; and more 6/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:59Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"In order for your building society to credit your mortgage account by 100k there must be a corresponding decrease of 100k in its savings account (just like when you send XX to a friend you have XX less and they have XX more). 16/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.4K followers, 2045 engagements

"But as solar gets cheaper and more efficient we have a lot of energy and we can take apart an old solar panel that ran at XX% efficiency and use its recovered materials to make two solar panels that each run at XX% efficiency: 24/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T11:20Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"These "price consultancies" are the reason you can't afford a hamburger or your apartment anymore. During the Biden administration the Federal Trade Commission was working towards a nationwide ban on this stuff: 12/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-09T11:38Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"That's a way to "to reduce private debt but in a way that doesnt cause an economic collapse" which he says he'll cover in his next post. Can't wait 65/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:38Z 470.4K followers, 2692 engagements

"So after the bank originates your loan your account has 100k more in it and the bank has an IOU from you for 100k which sits on its books as an asset. In the moment the money is created the bank makes 100k in new money for its balance-sheet. 19/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.4K followers, 1877 engagements

"As much as I like my 2gb symmetrical fiber the fact that it exists because a crook stole billions of dollars from everyday people who were only hoping to live a dignified retirement of material sufficiency is terrible. 19/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"It turns out that a lot of the challenges on that front boil down to the fact that recycling old cleantech uses up a lot of energy. 23/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T11:20Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Apple Computer Inc. // Macintosh Portable (US 1989)"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:28Z 470.5K followers, 3075 engagements

"'TEEN magazine October 1960"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-17T11:10Z 470.5K followers, 1945 engagements

"Wash and Heating House of the Luruper Chaussee Housing Block (1929-30) in Hamburg Germany by Gustav Oelsner. Photo by Carl Dransfeld"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-12T13:47Z 470.5K followers, 2759 engagements

"Some of the great illustrations from The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884) including tales of the mythical Glooskap whose name literally means Liar because it is said that when he left earth he promised to return but has never done so:"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T12:06Z 470.5K followers, 3806 engagements

"So the bubble is bad. Really bad. But even so there will be things we can salvage from it: open source models skilled programmers cheap GPUs bought out of bankruptcy for pennies on the dollar. 24/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Image from an 18th-century pattern book consisting of XX ink drawings showing precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the #Buddha and Bodhisattva figures. More here:"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-14T20:50Z 470.4K followers, 2270 engagements

"The headphones fizzled users were furious and the CEO was defenstrated (but the speakers still don't work): 36/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-10T12:22Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"He got Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to cave on taxing Big Tech which means that they'll be able to go on cheating on their taxes while Canadian companies won't be able to which means Canada's tech sector will never be able to compete: 26/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:35Z 470.5K followers, 1334 engagements

"Grundig Satellit 3400 Professional // Broadcast Receiver (Germany 1978)"
X Link @doctorow 2025-09-19T09:11Z 470.5K followers, 2730 engagements

"The US passed the first of these laws in 1998 when Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. 13/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:34Z 470.5K followers, 1407 engagements

"Medical Center (1976-80) of the State University of New York at Stony Brook in New York NY USA by Bertrand Goldberg"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-17T11:10Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"The AI bubble is on its way to sucking up a trillion dollars and not all of that money is coming from Saudi royals hedge fund bastards and Elon Musks credulous creditors. Plenty of it will come out of the savings of working people whove forced to play the suckers at the table thanks to the replacement of guaranteed pensions with market-based pensions that only pay out if you guess right about which stocks to buy:"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T22:37Z 470.5K followers, 21.1K engagements

"Hey look at this * How I Became a Populist * Introducing the Bantam Tools EggBot * Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects * AI Wont Replace Jobs but Tech Bros Want You to Be Afraid It Will * US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low 4/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:37Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"Environmental activists fight with people who plan to control emissions with garbage "carbon credits" making Elon Musk a centibillionaire by selling indulgences to SUV companies who fill our skies with clouds of CO2 and carcinogenic exhaust: 14/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T11:20Z 470.5K followers, 1238 engagements

"Do interest free loans sound like a communist plot to you Keen asks us to consider such noted socialist proponents for this ideas as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. 55/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:36Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"They railed against financing the Muscle Shoals hyrdroelectric plant with bank loans instead insisting that the national bank should simply create the money to make those loans: 56/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:36Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Keen finishes by teasing one more policy prescription that he thinks will tie this all together: the intriguingly named Modern Debt Jubilee. 64/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:38Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Apple has removed ICEBlock a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi: 1/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-06T14:45Z 470.5K followers, 45.5K engagements

"So what did Margaret Thatcher do to destroy the chances of everyday Britons to have a home Well this is Margaret Thatcher so if you guessed the answer was "deregulation" you'd be right. 13/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.4K followers, 2435 engagements

"I'm on a tour with my new book Enshittification Catch me next in Los Angeles Calgary and San Francisco Full schedule with dates and links at: eof/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:37Z 470.5K followers, 2037 engagements

"Of course its far cheaper to pretend to be spending a lot of money than it is to actually spend it and theyre doing plenty of that too. Meta has promised to spend $72b next year on data-centers. However Metas annual free cash flow is $52.1b. OpenAI says it will spend $60b/year on data-centers which is five times its annual revenue of $12.7b (and the company is losing $9b/year). As The American Prospects Brian McMahon writes How can OpenAI plan to spend five times what it brought in"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T21:46Z 470.5K followers, 9161 engagements

"Horizontal Secretary by Amy Harris Midwood Books F248 1963 Cover by Paul Rader"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:20Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"But that's not how it works when a bank originates a loan. Banks are "fiscal agents" for the UK's central bank the Bank of England. That means that banks can create new money simply by crediting one of its depositors' accounts. 17/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.4K followers, 2054 engagements

"Art by Charles Addams"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-17T11:10Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"Of course after Trump took office his FTC canceled all that work and instead set up a snitch line where FTC employees could report on each other for being "woke." 13/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-09T11:38Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Grundig Satellit 3400 Professional // Broadcast Receiver (Germany 1978)"
X Link @doctorow 2025-09-19T09:11Z 470.5K followers, 3095 engagements

"City streets a winepress pulleys spinning tops a ray fish curdled milk: some of the images used by anatomist Andreas Vesalius (who died #onthisday in 1564) to explain the workings of the human body. Marri Lynn explores: #OTD"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T17:14Z 470.5K followers, 2152 engagements

"But house-rich Boomers would not and for good reason: the austerity-starved UK state has slashed benefits for everyone and older people rely on selling or borrowing against their homes as a way to remain sheltered fed and cared for as they age. 38/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:33Z 470.4K followers, 4494 engagements

"Peanuts November XX 1954"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:20Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"Death priests are necromancers who obtain their powers directly from their gods (Brom AD&D 2e Dungeon Master Guide Rules Supplement The Complete Book of Necromancers by Steve Kurtz TSR 1995)"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-12T16:23Z 470.5K followers, 2540 engagements

"Then there's Sonos who remotely irreversibly downgraded every smart speaker they'd ever sold in a doomed bid to create a unified app for the speakers and a set of headphones they were hoping to launch. 35/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-10T12:22Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"* Lisbon PT: A post-American enshittification-resistant internet with Rabble at Web Summit (Nov XX 1040AM) * Cardiff UK: Hay Festival After Hours at Wales Millennium Centre Bute Place (Nov XX 7PM) 20/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-09-30T15:56Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"The companies that buy these GPUs claim they'll last five years (and depreciate them over that schedule); however this is accounting fraud because in reality these GPUs have a duty-cycle that's more like two to three years: 6/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:23Z 470.5K followers, 1200 engagements

"There's going to be a lot of this AI after the AI goes away - just like there was a lot of the web after the dotcom crash when overnight San Francisco had infinity office-space servers and techies going begging. 42/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:26Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"As the ink was still drying on Clinton's signature the US trade rep started racing around the world demanding that America's trading partners adopt their own version of the law: 14/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:34Z 470.5K followers, 1342 engagements

"Upcoming appearances (cont'd): * Lisbon: A post-American enshittification-resistant internet with Rabble (Web Summit) Nov XX * Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours Nov XX 19/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-06T15:24Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"They keep you locked into app stores and payment systems which means you're constantly ripped off and can't install the software of your choosing even apps that help you avoid being kidnapped by masked thugs and sent to a secret prison: 12/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:34Z 470.5K followers, 1529 engagements

"Main Entrance of the Central Bus Station (1956-59) in Rovaniemi Finland by Niilo Pulkka Kaarlo Leppnen and Pekka Rajala"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T10:46Z 470.5K followers, 2093 engagements

"Thatcher deregulated mortgage lending and after that the majority of UK mortgages came from banks not building societies. Every new mortgage increased the supply of money in circulation in the UK. 21/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.4K followers, 1779 engagements

"Here's a surprising stat: from 1845-1960 UK house prices pretty much kept pace with inflation - a house you'd bought XX years ago could only be sold for more-or-less what you paid for it (technically houses rose about XXXX% ahead of consumer prices). 1/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.5K followers, 71.8K engagements

"If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share here's a link to it on my surveillance-free ad-free tracker-free blog: 2/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.4K followers, 3856 engagements

"Skyway through Fantasyland at Disneyland 1957"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:20Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"Fay Wray 1920's"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:21Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"New recruits emerge from their crypts to join the skeleton war (Karl Waller AD&D Forgotten Realms adventure anthology REF5: Lords of Darkness TSR 1988)"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T17:14Z 470.5K followers, 1874 engagements

"Microsoft Tear Down That Wall What the Eurostack is missing. 3/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:59Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"So why did America's trading partners agree to anticircumvention law Well that was down to the tender ministrations of the US trade rep. Countries that didn't pass anticircumvention were threatened with US tariffs. 18/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:35Z 470.5K followers, 1186 engagements

"As Keen writes this precipitated an "explosion" in house prices - and in household debt which rose from XX% of GDP to XX% of GDP by the time of the Great Financial Crisis. Since Thatcher house price have risen by XXX% more than consumer prices. 22/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.4K followers, 1769 engagements

"Prior to Thatcher's deregulation home loans in the UK mostly originated with "building societies" a specialized lender whose operations are fundamentally different from the operations of a bank. 14/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.4K followers, 2224 engagements

"From 1960-1979 house prices started to nudge ahead of inflation averaging gains that were XXXX% higher than consumer prices. But it wasn't until 1980 that the annual above-inflation price increase of houses grew to 3%. 3/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:31Z 470.4K followers, 3804 engagements

"Fay Wray 1930's"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T23:09Z 470.4K followers, 3101 engagements

"Twitter gets worse every single day. Someday it will degrade beyond the point of usability. The Fediverse is our best hope for an enshittification-resistant alternative. I'm @pluralistic@mamot.fr. The Fediverse edition of today's threads is at: 15/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:59Z 470.4K followers, 1883 engagements

"Focus instead on using politics to shatter the power of the giant wildly profitable corporations that got us into this crisis. We need to smash oil companies like Chevron and Exxon and we have to smash oily rag companies like Facebook and Google: 17/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T11:20Z 470.4K followers, 1159 engagements

"Silver inlaid brass door knocker with inscription Our lord the Sultan the King al-Mansur Sayf al-Dunya wa al-Din Qalaun al-Salihi ordered the building of this blessed place. Egypt circa 1280-1290 AD from The St. Louis Art Museum"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T14:27Z 470.5K followers, 1924 engagements

"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: The AI that we'll have after AI; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:37Z 470.5K followers, 2621 engagements

"The US economy is on the brink. Trump's illegal clawbacks of federal spending (waved through by a supine Congress) combined with his illegal tariffs and his government shutdown have sucked billions out of the economy. 1/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-04T13:25Z 470.5K followers, 38.9K engagements

"After a mass revolt - including an industry-wide very public switch to Unity's competitors - the company fired its top managers and abandoned its rent-seeking efforts: 34/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-10T12:21Z 470.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Volkswagen used the fact that it was illegal to reverse-engineer its engines to disguise the fact that it was cheating on its emissions tests and the resulting "Dieselgate" scandal killed thousands of Europeans: 50/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:39Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Hey look at this * Cory Doctorow Thinks He Knows How to Fix the Internet * How to Save the Internet From Enshittification * Jeep software update bricks vehicles leaves owners stranded * Anti-Monopolism as an Ideology of the Left * Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI 4/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T13:59Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"1972 bean bags"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:20Z 470.4K followers, XX engagements

"Corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York 1909"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-12T22:12Z 470.5K followers, 3274 engagements

"Solar and wind projects are being shut down just as they near completion squandering billions in public money - and a renewable future. Trump has stolen billions intended for Chicago public transit: 10/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-04T13:25Z 470.5K followers, 1006 engagements

"Promotional photos of the Hotel Utah Salt Lake City Utah 1975"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-15T08:20Z 470.5K followers, XX engagements

"Tech activists have to fight with people who say we can solve the commercial surveillance problem by "getting consent" to spy on people. 13/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T11:20Z 470.5K followers, 1288 engagements

"Yes investors really are that dumb. Even modest efforts at optimization can yield incredible performance gains. 31/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-16T17:24Z 470.5K followers, XXX engagements

"They'll look at those numbers and decide that you can't afford to pay back this loan (they'd be right too). But what if we trim that interest rate to zero 46/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-13T14:34Z 470.4K followers, 1053 engagements

"We have to get our supporters to stop focusing on agonizing about whether they should use a plastic straw or agonizing about whether they should quit Facebook. 16/"
X Link @doctorow 2025-10-11T11:20Z 470.4K followers, 1128 engagements