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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 26, 2021, 20 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Big U; How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 4; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/26/moo…

#Pluralistic

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Next Thursday, I'm helping Bruce Sterling launch "Robot Artists & Black Swans," a book of sf short stories in the Italian "fantascienza" mode, at Austin's Book People!

bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…

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The Big U: America's elite educational institutions are as rich as countries.



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How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 4: The latest installment of my podcast.



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#20yrsago EFF releases its Public Music License web.archive.org/web/2002021111…

#15yrsago Major Canadian artists reject suing fans and DRMing CDs musiccreators.ca

#15yrsago Frank Zappa’s anti-censorship letter flickr.com/photos/mudshar…

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#15yrsago RIP Jane Jacobs, urban activist web.archive.org/web/2006100906…

#10yrsago Russian corruption: crooked officials steal multi-billion-dollar company, $230M tax refund, then murder campaigning lawyer web.archive.org/web/2011042604…

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#5yrsago Bellwether: Connie Willis’s classic, hilarious novel about the science of trendiness memex.craphound.com/2016/04/26/bel…

#5yrsago Mitsubishi’s dieselgate: cheating since 1991 cnet.com/roadshow/news/…

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#5yrsago EFF to FDA: the DMCA turns medical implants into time-bombs eff.org/deeplinks/2016…

#5yrsago Fantasy accounting: how the biggest companies in America turn real losses into paper profits nytimes.com/2016/04/24/bus…

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#5yrsago A Burglar’s Guide to the City: burglary as architectural criticism memex.craphound.com/2016/04/25/a-b…

#1yrago Send Pics: ripping, brutal, amazing novel about teens, sextortion, revenge and justice memex.craphound.com/2020/04/21/sen…

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Saturday's threads: Guess who's doing a usury in Iowa; 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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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 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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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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