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Author/activist/journalist. New book: PICKS AND SHOVELS, a Marty Hench adventure from the dawn of enshittification: https://t.co/zGDGhU2RvP @pluralistic@mamot.fr

May 13, 2021, 20 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Democratic establishment; Uber (Ch)eats; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/13/ube…

#Pluralistic

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On May 19, I'm doing a talk called "Seize the Means of Computation," at the Ryerson Centre for Free Expression:

cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

And on May 20, I'm doing a keynote called "Privacy Without Monopoly," for the Northsec conference:

nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…

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The Democratic establishment: Rahm Emanuel is why we can't have nice things.



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Uber (Ch)eats: Innovation in tax evasion.



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#10yrsago Steven Levy on Facebook’s ironic privacy charge against Google wired.com/2011/05/facebo…

#10yrsago DHS’s “Secure Communities” program will deport battered woman for calling 9-1-1 on her abuser web.archive.org/web/2011051414…

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#10yrsago TSA: we’ll search your baby to make the country safer loweringthebar.net/2011/05/tsa-sa…

#5yrsago Clicking “Buy now” doesn’t “buy” anything, but people think it does papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

#1yrago Senate Dems want to ban internet disconnection pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/mal…

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#1yrago NSO Group tried to sell malware to US law enforcement pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/mal…

#1yrago Feds want national snitchlines for bosses whose workers don't want to die pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/mal…

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#1yrago How Marcus Hutchins saved the world and lived to tell the tale pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/mal…

#1yrago University requires students to buy nonexistent webcams pluralistic.net/2020/05/13/mal…

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Yesterday's threads: Crooked Timber's Ministry for the Future Seminar; 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:

* Seize the Means of Computation, Ryerson Centre for Free Expression, May 19, cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

* Privacy Without Monopoly, Northsec, May 20, nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…

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Recent appearances:

* Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans
open.spotify.com/episode/01dGJO…

* Can Antitrust Laws Destroy Surveillance Capitalism? (Majority Report)


* In conversation with John Scalzi at the Gaithersburg Book Festival


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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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Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/05/13/ube…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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