Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Biden's shift on vaccine patents is a Big Deal; LA traveling toward free public transit; How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 6; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/10/com…
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I'm doing two live events next Wednesday, May 12:
* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, a panel for the Knight Center's Reimagine the Internet event
knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…
* Launch for @Aminder_D's Cyclopedia Exotica for @chaptersindigo
crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…
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Biden's shift on vaccine patents is a Big Deal: A world turned upside-down.
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LA's journey to free public transit: But first we must abolish means-testing.
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 6: Nearly done with my serialized podcast reading!
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#15yrsago Canada’s New Democratic Party embraces copyfighting musicians web.archive.org/web/2006052002…
#10yrsago Valente’s Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland…: sweet fairytale, shot through with salty tears — magic! memex.craphound.com/2011/05/10/val…
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#10yrsago Beat monopoly prices on one-airline cities with the “phantom city” trick nytimes.com/2011/05/08/mag…
#10yrsago HOWTO sue telemarketers and keep the stuff they send you without paying for it telemarketingwatch.org/script.htm
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#10yrsago Pitiful wages, anti-union policies and corporate welfare to make America competitive with China web.archive.org/web/2011050821…
#10yrsago Teens and privacy online: why using Facebook doesn’t mean you don’t value privacy zephoria.org/thoughts/archi…
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#5yrsago Billionaire Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel will be a California Trump delegate wired.com/2016/05/invest…
#5yrsago 300 prominent economists call on world governments to end tax haven secrecy oxfam.org/en/press-relea…
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#5yrsago McClatchy newspapers’ CEO pleased to announce that he’s shipping IT jobs overseas computerworld.com/article/306730…
#5yrsago Peace in Our Time: how publishers, libraries and writers could work together locusmag.com/2016/05/cory-d…
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#5yrsago Too Like the Lightning: intricate worldbuilding, brilliant speculation, gripping storytelling memex.craphound.com/2016/05/10/too…
#5yrsago What’s the best way to distribute numbers on the faces of a D120? wired.com/2016/05/mathem…
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#5yrsago Panama Papers: New Zealand is the go-to money launderer for crooked Latin Americans rnz.co.nz/news/panama-pa…
#5yrsago Save iTunes: how the W3C’s argument for web-wide DRM would have killed iTunes eff.org/deeplinks/2016…
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#1yrago Pandemic countermeasures from the porn industry pluralistic.net/2020/05/10/lon…
#1yrago Factchecking virologist/conspiracist Judy Mikovits pluralistic.net/2020/05/10/lon…
#1yrago Striking New Orleans garbage collectors replaced with prison labor pluralistic.net/2020/05/10/lon…
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#1yrago Probability and pandemics pluralistic.net/2020/05/10/lon…
#1yrago The real Lord of the Flies kids were really nice to each other pluralistic.net/2020/05/09/im-…
#1yrago Flooding Ohio's "work-refusal" snitchline pluralistic.net/2020/05/09/im-…
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#1yrago Konstantine Anthony for Burbank City Council pluralistic.net/2020/05/09/im-…
#1yrago Armed Michigan voters escort their state rep to work pluralistic.net/2020/05/09/im-…
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Saturday's threads: How copyright filters lead to wage-theft; 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:
* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, 5/12, knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…
* Launch for @Aminder_D's Cyclopedia Exotica, 5/12, crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…
* Seize the Means of Computation, 5/19, cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…
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Recent appearances:
* Can Antitrust Laws Destroy Surveillance Capitalism? (@majorityfm)
* In conversation with @Scalzi at @GburgBookFest
* Hexapodia XIII with @delong and @Noahpinion
braddelong.substack.com/p/podcast-hexa…
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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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