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Inside: Welcome to the Palmerverse; SEC vs private equity ripoffs; Neuromancer today; Gators and Amazon tag-team small sellers; and more!

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Welcome to the Palmerverse: Ada Palmer's Renaissance-informed science fictional futurism.

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SEC vs private equity ripoffs: Personnel really are policy.

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Neuromancer today: Eileen Gunn on the enduring significance and wonder of William Gibson.

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Gators and Amazon tag-team small sellers: Amazon's bad conduct is good for (a certain kind of) business.

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#10yrsago Patent troll that claimed ownership over the Web loses its case wired.com/2012/02/intera…

#10yrsago Alan Moore explains the Guy Fawkes mask, Occupy, Anonymous and anti-ACTA protests bbc.com/news/technolog… 6/

#5yrsago Ukrainian MPs caught illegally casting multiple votes in Parliament. Again. globalvoices.org/2017/02/10/ukr…

#5yrsago A succinct, simple, excellent description of the problems of neoliberalism and their solution truthout.org/articles/expos… 7/

#5yrsago Techdirt’s “I Invented Email” gear techdirt.com/articles/20170…

#1yrago Luxembourg: A criminal enterprise with a country attached pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk…

#1yrago Tory donors reap 100X return on campaign contributions pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk… 8/

#1yrago Duke is academia's meanest trademark bully pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk…

#1yrago Crooked cops play music to kill livestreams pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk… 9/

Yesterday's threads: Litigation finance pits greed against greed; Occupy the SEC on bank mergers; 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:

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* Boskone 59 (Feb 18-20)
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* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (City Lights), Feb 27
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* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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Recent appearances:

* The End of Uber (@TheWarOnCars)
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* Moral Panic (@Drug_Science Podcast)
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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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