Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Real penalties for covid evicters; McDonald's corporate wages war on ice-cream hackers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/eut…
#Pluralistic
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I'm appearing at the FITC conference this morning!
* 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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Real penalties for covid evicters: The CFPB is set to euthanize some rentiers - and their lawyers.
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McDonald's corporate wages war on ice-cream hackers: All the pasteurization in the world won't detoxify the mix of franchise agreements and rent-extraction.
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#10yrsago ACLU to Michigan cops: stop searching mobile phones during traffic stops popularmechanics.com/technology/gad…
#10yrsago Before 1988 Olympics, South Korea sent ‘vagrants’ to camps where rape and murder were routine web.archive.org/web/2016042023…
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#5yrsago Colorado school district wants to arm security staff with military-style rifles csmonitor.com/USA/2016/0419/…
#5yrsago UK Chancellor exempts families of “Politically Exposed Persons” from money laundering scrutiny nakedcapitalism.com/2016/04/uks-os…
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#5yrsago Volkswagen’s internal Dieselgate probe stuck because the company used code-words for its cheat software bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
#1yrago 94.5% of "small business" money went to giant corporations pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/gre…
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#1yrago Denmark: no bailouts for companies headquartered in tax havens pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/gre…
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Yesterday's threads: The G(AN)-8; Facebook's tonsils; Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism; 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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).
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