Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Paygo, false consciousness and the IRS; The Public Interest Internet; Concluding How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/17/dis…
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This Weds (5/19), 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 Thu (5/20), I'm doing a keynote called "Privacy Without Monopoly," for the Northsec conference:
nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…
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Paygo, false consciousness and the IRS: Why we can't have nice things.
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The Public Interest Internet: Reviving pre-enclosure glory.
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Concluding How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Now, onto the audiobook mastering!
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#20yrsago Danish birds imitate ringtones web.archive.org/web/2002020912…
#15yrsago Wired News publishes damning docs from EFF vs AT&T wired.com/2006/05/att-wh…
#10yrsago HOWTO Make an office-supply X-Wing Fighter instructables.com/X-Wing-Fighter…
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#5yrsago Brian Wood’s REBELS book one — read the first issue here! memex.craphound.com/2016/05/17/bri…
#1yrago Instagram's slow-mo appeals court pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/che…
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Yesterday's threads: Who owns the covid vaccines; 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, @RyersonCFE, May 19, cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…
* Privacy Without Monopoly, @NorthSec_io, May 20, nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…
* In conversation with @DDayen (Second Life Book Club), Jun 4, draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…
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Recent appearances:
* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media
* @mamohanraj and @ben_rosenbaum Are Humans
open.spotify.com/episode/01dGJO…
* Can Antitrust Laws Destroy Surveillance Capitalism? (@Majorityfm)
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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 @MCRockefeller. 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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