Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The FCC wants your broadband measurements; Murder Offsets; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for…
#Pluralistic
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I'm appearing at the FITC conference on next Tuesday!
* Panel: "Intersection: Seeing Our Failures from the Future"
fitc.ca/presentation/i…
* Keynote: "Interop: Self-Determination vs. Dystopia"
fitc.ca/presentation/i…
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The FCC wants your broadband measurements: Big Cable doesn't want us to confuse the issue with relevant facts.
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Murder Offsets: Greenwashing will kill us all.
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#15yrsago Yochai Benkler releases new book under CC license cyber.harvard.edu/wealth_of_netw…
#15yrsago Scientific management’s unscientific grounding: the Management Myth theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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#5yrsago How the UK’s biggest pharmacy chain went from family-run public service to debt-laden hedge-fund disaster theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/…
#5yrsago Brussels terrorists kept their plans in an unencrypted folder called “TARGET” techdirt.com/articles/20160…
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#1yrago Abolish Silicon Valley: memoir of a driven startup founder who became an anti-capitalist activist memex.craphound.com/2020/04/14/abo…
#1yrago Amazon fires tech workers for their warehouse worker solidarity pluralistic.net/2020/04/14/abo…
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#1yrago Ticketmaster ends refunds for canceled events pluralistic.net/2020/04/14/abo…
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Yesterday's threads: Jackpot; Bill Gates will kill us all; What "IP" means; Data-brokerages vs the world; 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:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Upcoming appearances:
* Interop: Self-Determination vs Dystopia (FITC), Apr 19-21, fitc.ca/presentation/i…
* Book launch for Bruce Sterling's Robot Artists & Black Swans (Book People), Apr 27, bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…
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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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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.
Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…
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Today's top sources: Slashdot (slashdot.org), JWZ (jwz.org/blog/).
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