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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Workers want real jobs; Canadians! #NoSiteBlocking; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/27/8-h…

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Workers want real jobs: Bosses want contract, temp and gig workers.



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Canadians! #NoSiteBlocking: You have until May 31 to send comments against Bill C-10.



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#10yrsago Bernie Sanders introduces anti-pharma-patent bill, aims to replace drug monopolies with prizes web.archive.org/web/2011052815…

#5yrsago Wealthy families are most responsible for American wealth segregation journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

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#5yrsago Wells Fargo, who preyed on black borrowers, sponsors Black Lives Matter luncheon theintercept.com/2016/05/27/wel…

#5yrsago Scott Walker, saddled with $1.2m debt from failed presidential bid, pawns his own donors wisconsingazette.com/2016/05/24/sco…

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#5yrsago US trade rep threatens Colombia’s peace process over legal plan to offer cheap leukemia meds statnews.com/pharmalot/2016…

#5yrsago Security researcher discovers glaring problem with patient data system, FBI stages armed dawn raid dailydot.com/debug/justin-s…

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#1yrago Ammosexuals point their guns at their crotches pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/lit…

#1yrago West Virginia's governor Jim Justice: billionaire, deadbeat pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/lit…

#1yrago Hertz's bankruptcy was caused by private equity looting pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/lit…

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#1yrago Facebook shelved research that showed they were sowing division pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/lit…

#1yrago Youtube is automatically blocking criticism of the Chinese Communist Party pluralistic.net/2020/05/27/lit…

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Yesterday's threads: Monopolists are winning the repair wars; 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."

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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:

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Upcoming appearances:

* In conversation with @DDayen (Second Life Book Club), Jun 4, draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…

* Book launch for @TKMiles's Rabbits (@BookSoup), Jun 7, eventbrite.com/e/terry-miles-…

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Recent appearances:

* Get Your News On With Ron/@RonPlacone:


* Seize the Means of Computation, Consensus 2021
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* How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, @RyersonCFE:
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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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