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Inside: Mass arbitration attack could bring Intuit to its knees; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/02/24/ube…
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Today (Feb 24), I'm on a panel for @fightfortheftr and @amnesty called "#Web3 for Activists: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong":
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Mass arbitration attack could bring Intuit to its knees: Justice for the millions ripped off by Turbotax's "Free File" fraud.
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#20yrsago Judith Merril's memoirs, at last web.archive.org/web/2002060312…
#20yrsago I’m a Googlebot! I will not kill you ftrain.com/robot_exclusio…
#20yrsago RIP, Chuck Jones cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/T…
#20yrsago A bad fall while installing a WiFi antenna people.well.com/user/doctorow/… 4/
#15yrsago Best muscle-rub ever memex.craphound.com/2007/02/24/bes…
#5yrsago Techdirt is being sued by the “I invented email” guy and needs your money techdirt.com/articles/20170…
#5yrsago So It Is: a Cuban-inspired album from the astounding Preservation Hall Jazz Band memex.craphound.com/2017/02/24/so-… 5/
#5yrsago The automated, invisible revert-wars of Wikipedia’s bot ecosystem journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
#5yrsago Putinology considered harmful: the many legends we tell ourselves about Vladimir Putin theguardian.com/world/2017/feb… 6/
#5yrsago Pope to greedheads: better to be an atheist than the kind of Catholic who screws the poor reuters.com/article/us-pop…
#5yrsago Customs officials refuse to allow passengers to debark a domestic flight unless they show ID vice.com/en/article/434… 7/
#5yrsago In which Laurie Penny comprehensively proves that she has Yiannopoulos’s number psmag.com/news/on-the-mi…
#5yrsago Lawsuit forces DoJ to admit that Obama administration sneakily killed transparency bill freedom.press/news/new-docum… 8/
#5yrsago After a century of resisting monopolies, Democrats became the party of finance capitalism and it cost them the election theatlantic.com/business/archi…
#5yrsago Found at a thrift shop: the last record of a doomed Apple DRM effort from 1979 drive.google.com/file/d/0B9vexS… 9/
#1yrago Court rejects TSA qualified immunity: Government genital massages can be video-recorded pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb…
#1yrago The Mauritanian: Hitler painted roses and GWB does portraiture pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb… 10/
#1yrago EVs as distributed storage grid: Go green, buy a bigger truck pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb…
#1yrago Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve: White collar workers, your blue collar comrades tried to warn you pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb… 11/
#1yrago German covid coinages: Schadenfreude fur CoronaFußgruß pluralistic.net/2021/02/23/acc…
#1yrago Malcolm X's true killers: NYPD deathbed confessions confirms "conspiracy theory" pluralistic.net/2021/02/23/acc… 12/
#1yrago Private equity's nursing home killing spree: Pre- and post-covid pluralistic.net/2021/02/23/acc… 13/
Tuesday's threads: Podcasting Part III of "The Internet Heist"; China hamstrings its Big Tech; 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:
* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical SF, 1950 to 1985 (@CityLightsBooks), Feb 27
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* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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Recent appearances:
* The Policy Implications of Web3 (@StanfordCyber)
* Big Tech & Surveillance Capitalism (@shaunattwood):
* Bringing Back Luddites (@OhNoPodcast)
ohnopodcast.com/investigations… 19/
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… 20/
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My latest @Medium column is: "We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one"
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