Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Unions are finally fighting two-tier contracts; McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge; 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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Unions are finally fighting two-tier contracts: How the actual fuck did they fail to see through this bullshit decades ago?
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McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge: Leaked slides document the lies, sleaze and profiteering.
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#5yrsago The only person to go to prison for a string of corporate pollution scandals was a crusading scientist who exposed them theintercept.com/2016/11/25/did… 5/
#5yrsago The neoliberal politicians who impeached Brazil’s president and took over are imploding in spectacular corruption scandals bbc.com/news/world-lat…
#5yrsago If blue-collar workers want better jobs, they need unions, not Trump thenation.com/article/archiv… 6/
#5yrsago Giving companies more money (loans, tax-breaks) only increases investor payouts, not expansion thenewinquiry.com/disgorge-the-c…
#5yrsago Wells Fargo says that its customers gave up right to sue by having their signatures forged reuters.com/article/us-wel… 7/
#1yrago Random Penguin to buy Simon & Schuster pluralistic.net/2020/11/25/the…
#1yrago Office 365 spies on employees for bosses pluralistic.net/2020/11/25/the… 8/
Yesterday's threads: Spaniards fight Wall Street landlords; The Tesla-financial complex; 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:
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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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Upcoming appearances:
* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego @Comic_Con), Nov 28
eventeny.com/events/comicco…
* Redistribute the Internet (@NGIForward Summit), Nov 30
summit.ngi.eu/programme#day2
* @intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20…
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Recent appearances:
* NFTs (@UpstreamPodcast)
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* 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:
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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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