Today's Twitter threads (a thread).
Inside: The Observatory of Anonymity; Hawley and Taylor Greene faked their donor-surge; What's wrong with EU's trustbusters; Some thoughts on GWB's call for truth in politics; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/21/re-…
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The Observatory of Anonymity: You are far less of a haystack-needle than you think.
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Hawley and Taylor Greene faked their donor-surge: Juking stats for fun, fortune, and fame.
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What's wrong with EU's trustbusters: And how to fix it.
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Some thoughts on GWB's call for truth in politics: Mission accomplished.
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#15yrsago Thieves discover abandoned Soviet missile silo full of cash web.archive.org/web/2006032309…
#10yrsago MPAA: “democratizing culture is not in our interest” torrentfreak.com/mpaa-democrati…
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#5yrsago Printer ink wars may make private property the exclusive domain of corporations eff.org/deeplinks/2016…
#5yrsago VW offers to buy back 500K demon-haunted diesels reuters.com/article/us-vol…
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#5yrsago Why Internet voting is a terrible idea, explained in small words anyone can understand
#5yrsago Why is Congress so clueless about tech? Because they fired all their experts 20 years ago wired.com/2016/04/office…
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#5yrsago Kindle Unlimited is being flooded with 3,000-page garbage books that suck money out of the system consumerist.com/2016/04/20/ama…
#1yrago Phishers deploy fake contact-tracing warnings pluralistic.net/2020/04/21/all…
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Yesterday's threads: Real penalties for covid evicters; McDonald's corporate wages war on ice-cream hackers; 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:
* Book launch for Bruce Sterling's Robot Artists & Black Swans (Book People), Apr 27, bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…
* Seize the Means of Computation, Ryerson Centre for Free Expression, May 19, cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…
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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: Luc Rocher (rocher.lc), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).
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