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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: This is your Congress on drugs; Harvard is full of rich, white low-achievers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/18/bip…

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Today (Thu), I'll be appearing on @Article19org's EU webinar on the Digital Services Act and interoperability (0830PT):

zoom.us/webinar/regist…

And hosting the launch for @happierman and @J9andIf's "You Feel It Just Below the Ribs" (1200PT):

keplers.org/upcoming-event… 2/

This is your Congress on drugs: Corruption kills.

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Harvard is full of rich, white low-achievers: 43% of white Harvard students didn't get in on merit.

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#20yrsago Fans have an accent groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.…

#20yrsago Douglas Adams' widow rescues unpublished Hitchhikers' novel from hard-drive news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertain…

#15yrsago UK regulator: Dragon Sausages MUST contain dragon! web.archive.org/web/2006121118… 5/

#10yrsago More absurdity in the trial of G20 hacker, Byron Sonne web.archive.org/web/2011112018…

#10yrsago Tumblr users give Congress an earful about SOPA staff.tumblr.com/post/129300761… 6/

#5yrsago Tax Inspectors Without Borders: poor countries send each other ninja tax collectors to nail looting multinationals taxjustice.net/2016/11/17/tax… 7/

#5yrsago Nimona: a YA graphic novel that raises serious, unanswerable moral quandries with snappy dialog and slapstick memex.craphound.com/2016/11/18/nim…

#1yrago Telehealth chickenizes docs pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/alw… 8/

#1yrago The Mounties lied about social surveillance pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/alw… 9/

Yesterday's threads: Aspiration's comprehensively deceptive greenwashing; Live Nation is to blame for the Astroworld deaths; and more!

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 11/

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… 12/

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/ 13/

Upcoming appearances:

* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA: How to protect free expression, create competition and empower users all at once (@Article19), Nov 18
zoom.us/webinar/regist… 14/

Upcoming appearances:

* Launch for @happierman and @J9andIf's "You Feel It Just Below the Ribs" (@Keplers), Nov 18
keplers.org/upcoming-event…

* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego @Comic_Con), Nov 28
eventeny.com/events/comicco… 15/

Upcoming appearances:

* @intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20… 16/

Recent appearances:

* Move Fast and Fix Things (@AaronSwartzDay)


* @BridgeTales:
buzzsprout.com/1795352/9527530

* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):
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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 @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 18/

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My latest Medium column is Jam To-Day: Liberating Big Tech's hostages on day one"

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