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Author/activist/journalist. New book: THE BEZZLE, a thriller about the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve https://t.co/4ZExCQHv6q @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Apr 16, 2021, 22 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: Mass-action lawsuit against Facebook; $100m deli made $35k in 2019/20; "Anti-voter-suppression" companies are lobbying to kill HR1; People's Choice Communications; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/16/whe…

#Pluralistic

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I'm appearing at the FITC conference 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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Mass-action lawsuit against Facebook: Digital Rights Ireland wants to make the other GDPR shoe drop.



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$100m deli made $35k in 2019/20: What the fuck is going on with Your Hometown Deli?



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"Anti-voter-suppression" companies are lobbying to kill HR1: Keep your eyes on the prize.



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People's Choice Communications: An ISP owned by striking Charter works that diverts profits to its customers.



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#20yrsago Leon Trotsky, B2B visionary memex.craphound.com/2001/04/15/leo…

#10yrsago New Zealand’s 3-strikes rule can go into effect in September legislation.govt.nz/bill/governmen…

#5yrsago Barack Obama: Taking money from 1 percenters compromised my politics theintercept.com/2016/04/15/bar…

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#5yrsago From beyond the grave, Terry Pratchett orders Neil Gaiman to adapt Good Omens for TV theguardian.com/books/tvandrad…

#5yrsago Uber and Lyft don’t cover their cost of capital and rely on desperate workers ianwelsh.net/the-market-fai…?

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#1yrago Universities want to infect students’ laptops with undetectable rootkits pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/inv…

#1yrago One person is in charge of oversight for $2.2T in stimulus pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/inv…

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#1yrago Jailbreak for CPAP machine reveals hidden ventilator functionality pluralistic.net/2020/04/15/inv…

#1yrago FCC will spend $9B to improve broadband…without an accurate broadband map pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new…

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#1yrago Plutocrats firehose money on primary challenger to AOC pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new…

#1yrago Apple hunters recover ten "lost" varieties from forgotten farms pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new…

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Wednesday's threads: The FCC wants your broadband measurements; Murder Offsets; 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: Super Punch (superpunch.net), Boing Boing (boingboing.net).

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