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Inside: Pixels of You; Wall Street's landlord business is turning every rental into a slum; UK Tories want a national database of porn-viewing habits; and more!

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Pixels of You: A illustrated tale of love and photos.

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Wall Street's landlord business is turning every rental into a slum: And they're using public money to do it.

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UK Tories want a national database of porn-viewing habits: Oh fuck not this bullshit again.

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#20yrsago BT claims patent over hyperlinks newscientist.com/article/dn1905…

#10yrsago Debunking the record industry shill who said that his amendments to Canada’s proposed copyright law are no big deal web.archive.org/web/2012021018… 5/

#10yrsago Facebook’s funny accounting has “active users” who never use Facebook dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/tho…

#10yrsago English plainclothes police officer follows himself for 20 minutes telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/cr… 6/

#5yrsago Internal TSA files reveal that they have no evidence the $1B “behavioral detection” program works theintercept.com/2017/02/08/tsa…

#5yrsago Congress reintroduces YODA, a bipartisan bill that protects your right to treat devices as your property eff.org/deeplinks/2017… 7/

#5yrsago Enterprise firewalls are man-in-the-middling HTTPS sessions like crazy, and weakening security jhalderm.com/pub/papers/int…

#1yrago The grand conclusion of my Someone Comes to Town podcast pluralistic.net/2021/02/08/som… 8/

Yesterday's threads: Podcasting part one of "The Internet Heist"; 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.

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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:

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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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* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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* @HappenHerePod
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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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