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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Canadian telco monopolists run the show; Google cheats on location privacy; The antitrust case against Prime; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/01/you…

#Pluralistic

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This Friday, Jun 4, I'm appearing with @DDayen in the Second Life Book Club!

draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…

And next Monday, Jun 7, I'm helping @TKMiles launch his debut novel RABBITS:

eventbrite.com/e/terry-miles-…

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Canadian telco monopolists run the show: The CRTC just put Teksavvy out of business.



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Google cheats on location privacy: Part of the attribution con.



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The antitrust case against Prime: The dotted line to higher prices.



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#15yrsago Canadian MP has .CA registry censor site that criticized him boingboing.net/2006/06/02/can…

#10yrsago Sensation: Acerbic novel about pop culture and popular madness as functions of parasitic manipulation memex.craphound.com/2011/05/30/sen…

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#5yrsago United Arab Emirates hacked UK journalist citizenlab.ca/2016/05/stealt…

#5yrsago Untangling the Web: the NSA’s supremely weird, florid guide to the Internet muckrock.com/foi/united-sta…

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#5yrsago Company Town: Madeline Ashby’s tale of sex and Singularity cults is a locked-door mystery at sea memex.craphound.com/2016/05/28/com…

#5yrsago Geek Feminist Revolution: Kameron Hurley’s measured essays on the importance of rage memex.craphound.com/2016/05/31/gee…

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#1yrago After Jim Crow, broken windows pluralistic.net/2020/06/02/bro…

#1yrago Australia caves on "robodebt" pluralistic.net/2020/05/30/up-…

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Last Thursday's threads: Workers want real jobs; Canadians! #NoSiteBlocking; 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:

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

* Book launch for @TKRabbits (@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
coindesk.com/cory-doctorow-…

* How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, @RyersonCFE
cfe.ryerson.ca/key-resources/…

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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 @[e-mail].

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's top sources: Peter Nowack.

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