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Inside: Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords; The Tesla-financial complex; and more!

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Are you going to San Diego @Comic_Con? Me too!

* I'll be signing at the @MystGalaxyBooks Booth (#1325) on Sunday from 12-12:45PM

* And I'll be on a panel, The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right, on Sunday from 1:30-230PM

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Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords: When margins and misery are correlated.

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The Tesla-financial complex: When your financial instruments are better than your cars.

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#10yrsago Russian social media erupts as Putin apparat tries to suppress video of booing crowd bbc.com/news/world-eur…

#10yrsago Canadian indigenous band declares state of emergency due to horrific conditions, government takes no notice huffpost.com/archive/ca/ent… 5/

#10yrsago European Court of Justice: spying with national copyright censorwalls is illegal torrentfreak.com/european-court…

#10yrsago Why you shouldn’t parse HTML with regexp stackoverflow.com/questions/1732… 6/

#5yrsago Daily Mail finds new depths to plumb, blames hypothetical immigrants for neo-Nazi’s murder of Labour MP twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

#1yrago Talking interop on EFF's podcast pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zaw… 7/

#1yrago Cheap Chinese routers riddled with backdoors pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zaw…

#1yrago Emailifaction is digital carcinization pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zaw…

#1yrago Saudi Aramco is gushing debt pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zaw… 8/

Yesterday's threads: The definitive answers to Disney's pernicious queueing debates; 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:

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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… 11/

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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Upcoming appearances:

* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego @Comic_Con), Nov 28
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* @intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
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Recent appearances:

* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-@USTPC):
acm.org/public-policy/…

* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA:


* Move Fast and Fix Things (@AaronSwartzDay) 14/

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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.

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