Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: End of the line for Uber; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unt…
#Pluralistic
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I'm a guest of honor and keynote speaker at Salt Lake City's Quills Conference on writing, Aug 12-15:
quillsconference.com
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End of the line for Uber
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#15yrsago British aviation bans all hand-luggage news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4…
#10yrsago Taxonomy of technological risks: when things fail badly web.archive.org/web/2011101807…
#10yrsago XKCD on the password paradox: human factors versus computers’ brute force xkcd.com/936/
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#5yrsago Nauru files: leaks tell abused childrens’ stories from Australia’s offshore concentration camp theguardian.com/australia-news…
#5yrsago NRA is spending $3m on pro-Trump ad that says Clinton “will leave you defenseless” cnn.com/2016/08/09/pol…
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#5yrsago Court rules that FCC can’t force states to repeal laws banning municipal ISPs arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#5yrsago Trump only writes the angry tweets, the nice ones are written by a staffer with an Iphone varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/
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#5yrsago Monopoly power and the decline of small business: big business vs democracy, growth & equality ilsr.org/monopoly-power…
#5yrsago America will finally gather statistics on which and how many people are killed by law enforcement theguardian.com/us-news/2016/a…
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#5yrsago The story of the story of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion latimes.com/entertainment/…
#5yrsago Profile of People’s Ride: a co-operative, driver-owned alternative to Uber democracyatwork.info/profile_people…
#1yrago Uber lost $4b in H1/2020 pluralistic.net/2020/08/10/fol…
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#1yrago Warren Buffet, monopolist pluralistic.net/2020/08/10/fol…
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Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "Managing aggregate demand"; The 22 Murders of Madison May; When your boss wants an AI camera in your bedroom; 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:
* Keynote speaker, The Quills Conference, Aug 12-15
quillsconference.com
* Launch for @Ben_Rosenbaum's The Unraveling, Aug 23 (@Booksoup)
booksoup.com/event/benjamin…
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Recent appearances:
* Privacy Without Monopoly (@Defcon)
* Building the Digital Commons (@moneyontheleft)
moneyontheleft.org/2021/08/01/bui…
* Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset…
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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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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 "Expectations management," part five of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.
doctorow.medium.com/expectations-m…
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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: @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Brian Levine.
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