Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Podcasting "I Quit"; New York to revolutionize antitrust; New York to revolutionize voting; Competition tames ISPs; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/07/fir…
#Pluralistic
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Tonight, I'm helping @TKMiles launch his debut novel RABBITS:
eventbrite.com/e/terry-miles-…
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Podcasting "I Quit": My essay on smoking cessation, doubt, denial, and the worst corporations on Earth.
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New York to revolutionize antitrust: "Consumer Welfare" is bad for your welfare.
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New York to revolutionize voting: The SAFE Act and PAVE Act ride again!
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Competition tames ISPs: How living on the wrong side of the street can cost you thousands of dollars.
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#15yrsago Recording industry: Search-by-artist is “too interactive” web.archive.org/web/2006061221…
#15yrsago Private Infringer: fanfic based on Captain Copyright privateinfringer.blogspot.com
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#10yrsago Macedonia erupts after young man beaten to death by special police in public square web.archive.org/web/2011061013…
#5yrsago Samantha Bee interviews Frank Schaeffer, who helped create the religious right
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#5yrsago Uber loves competition, when it’s the one doing the competing boston.com/news/technolog…
#5yrsago You are not a wallet: complaining considered helpful theguardian.com/technology/201…
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Saturday's threads: Recommendation engines and "lean-back" media; 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:
* 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
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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!
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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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My latest Medium column is "The Rent’s Too Damned High," about the long con of convincing Americans that they will grow prosperous through housing wealth, not labor rights
doctorow.medium.com/the-rents-too-…
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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: Lulu Friesdat (twitter.com/LuluFriesdat), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Matthew Rimmer twitter.com/DrRimmer/.
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