Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/05/zuc…
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How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach: Creating a problem does not qualify you to solve the problem.
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#10yrsago US Customs’ domain-seizure program punishes the first amendment, leaves alleged pirates largely unscathed torrentfreak.com/us-governments…
#10yrsago Scott Walker gives cushy $85.5K/year government job to major donor’s young, underqualified son web.archive.org/web/2011040604…
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#10yrsago Closing down Borders sign: “No toilets, try Amazon” consumerist.com/2011/04/sign-a…
#10yrsago Recording industry lobbyist appointed head of copyright for European Commission web.archive.org/web/2011040119…
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#10yrsago What is legitimate “newsgathering” and what is “piracy”? zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/why…
#5yrsago Iceland’s Prime Minister asks to dissolve Parliament bbc.com/news/world-eur…
#5yrsago Google reaches into customers’ homes and bricks their gadgets memex.craphound.com/2016/04/05/goo…
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#5yrsago Pollster explains how Chamber of Commerce can steamroller empathetic execs into opposing progressive policies gawker.com/business-execs…
#5yrsago Parent Hacks: illustrated guide is the best kind of parenting book memex.craphound.com/2016/04/05/par…
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#5yrsago The Nameless City: YA graphic novel about diplomacy, hard and soft power, colonialism, bravery, and parkour memex.craphound.com/2016/04/05/the…
#5yrsago Save Netflix! eff.org/deeplinks/2016…
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#5yrsago The TSA spent $1.4M on an app to tell it who gets a random search kevin.burke.dev/kevin/tsa-rand…
#5yrsago Iceland’s Prime Minister says he won’t resign, mass demonstrations gain momentum icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_…
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#5yrsago Panama Papers reveal the tax-avoidance strategies of David Cameron’s father theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/…
#1yrago Landlord accidentally organizes rent strike pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-m…
#1yrago Private equity looting public health in a pandemic pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-m…
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Saturday's threads: Consumerism won't defeat Georgia's Jim Crow; China's antitrust surge; and more!
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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."
Get signed books from @darkdel: darkdel.com/store/p1840/Av…
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…
Signed copies here:
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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:
* All the Teachable Things I Know About Writing, Apr 13, changinghands.com/event/april202…
* Interop: Self-Determination vs Dystopia (FITC), Apr 19-21, fitc.ca/presentation/i…
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Recent appearances:
* Right to Repair, Monopolies, and Solarpunk
* The surveillance state, digital monopolies, and why we should be worried (Podsongs)
anchor.fm/podsongs/episo…
* Conspiracy Theories (Utopian Horizons):
soundcloud.com/utopianhorizon…
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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
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