Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Guess who's doing a usury in Iowa; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/24/pel…
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Next Tuesday, I'm helping @Bruces launch "Robot Artists & Black Swans," a book of sf short stories in the Italian "fantascienza" mode, at Austin's @BookPeople!
bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…
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Guess who's doing a usury in Iowa: When your exercise bike is actually a predatory lender.
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#15yrsago DMCA revision proposal will jail Americans for “attempting” infringment web.archive.org/web/2006050209…
#15yrsago Proposal to let employees use personal laptops web.archive.org/web/2006042723…
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#10yrsago New Zealand’s rammed-through copyright law includes mass warrantless surveillance and publication of accused’s browsing habits stuff.co.nz/technology/dig…
#10yrsago Passover poem about robots: “When We Were Robots in Egypt” tor.com/2011/04/24/whe…
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#5yrsago Leading Republicans send letters in support of Dennis Hastert, pedophile web.archive.org/web/2016042312…
#1yrago Facebook let advertisers target "pseudoscience" and "conspiracy" pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/sli…
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#1yrago Amazon uses its sellers' data to figure out which products to clone pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/sli…
#1yrago Masks work pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/sli…
#1yrago US healthcare fails insured people too pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/sli…
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#1yrago A labradoodle breeder is in charge of America's vaccines pluralistic.net/2020/04/24/sli…
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Yesterday's threads: Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud; Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle; John Deere's dismal infosec; 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:
* 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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).
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