Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups"; The doctrine of dynastic wealth; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn…
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The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups": Uber and Lyft spent their way into a rep for racial justice.
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The doctrine of dynastic wealth: Abigail Disney on tax evasion and the American caste system.
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#20yrsago Scott McCloud on Napster, “piracy” and micropayments web.archive.org/web/2001070805…
#15yrsago Flickr: we’ll give full access to competitors – if they reciprocate flickr.com/groups/central…
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#10yrsago ICANN votes to roll out 400-800 new generic top-level domains flickr.com/photos/wseltze…
#10yrsago KFC: support diabetes research by buying an 800 calorie, 56 spoonful of sugar “Mega Jug” theweek.com/articles/48383…
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#5yrsago Homeless in Seattle: five essays theawl.com/2016/06/youd-h…
#5yrsago W3C DRM working group chairman vetoes work on protecting security researchers and competition lwn.net/Articles/69110…
#1yrago Microsoft criticizes Apple's monopolism pluralistic.net/2020/06/19/art…
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#1yrago Trump wants to dismantle the OTF pluralistic.net/2020/06/19/art…
#1yrago This is the EU's interoperability moment pluralistic.net/2020/06/18/dig…
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Wednesday's threads: Tali Farhadian Weinstein paid virtually no tax on millions and millions; 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:
onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…
Signed copies here:
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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."
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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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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 "Illegitimate Greatness," on what we can learn from Ida M Tarbell's century-old critique of John D Rockefeller
doctorow.medium.com/illegitimate-g…
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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: Julia Angwin (twitter.com/JuliaAngwin), Fipi Lele.
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