Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/not…
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Today (Feb 27), I'm on a panel called "False Dawns and Wandergrounds: Dystopia, Then and Now," as part of @CityLightsBooks's launch of *Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985*:
eventbrite.com/e/dangerous-vi… 2/
Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't: They getcha coming and going.
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#20yrsago The Chilling Effects project web.archive.org/web/2002032714…
#20yrsago Jack Valenti pushes mandatory DRM for every computer theregister.com/2002/02/26/mpa…
#20yrsago Michael Moore versus Bill O’Reilly web.archive.org/web/2002022223… 4/
#10yrsago SKS, world’s largest microfinance service, drives debtors to suicide nhregister.com/news/article/L…
#10yrsago Author discovers that Amazon can reprice his indie Kindle books however they want and cut his royalties, at will jimchines.com/2012/02/amazon… 5/
#10yrsago Repo Man director urges fans to “pirate a bunch of my stuff right away” thequietus.com/articles/08085…
#10yrsago Save Disney World from Disneylandification passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-int…
#10yrsago Labour to Britain’s Internet: drop dead harrietharman.org/speaking-at-th… 6/
#10yrsago Rumblefish claims to own copyright to ambient birdsong on YouTube web.archive.org/web/2012022708…
#10yrsago Wikileaks releases “Global Intelligence Files” — 5MM emails from private spook outfit Stratfor wikileaks.org/gifiles/ 7/
#10yrsago Danish collecting society blocks band from playing anti-ACTA gig modspil.dk/wordpress/?p=2…
#10yrago Techdirt post about SOPA censored from Google results due to bogus DMCA complaint techdirt.com/articles/20120… 8/
#5yrsago The Body Orifice Security Scanner is why the rectally smuggled phone is called “Beat the BOSS” memex.craphound.com/2017/02/27/the…
#5yrsago The Amazon reviews for a phone designed for rectal smuggling are pretty interesting reading memex.craphound.com/2017/02/27/the… 9/
#5yrsago THEFT: A History of Music memex.craphound.com/2017/02/25/the…
#5yrsago Three kinds of propaganda, and what to do about them memex.craphound.com/2017/02/25/thr…
#5yrsago The CPAC replacement speaker for Milo Yiannopoulos was a notorious Japanese cult-member mutantfrog.com/2017/02/26/pol… 10/
#1yrago Privacy is not property: Interests, not exclusive rights pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/mea…
#1yrago K-Zombies: Zombies conquer Korea pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/mea…
#1yrago Against hygiene theater: Wired: Ventilation. Tired: Handwashing. Fired: Sterilization. pluralistic.net/2021/02/25/rin… 11/
Thursday's threads: Mass arbitration attack could bring Intuit to its knees; 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:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 13/
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… 14/
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."
craphound.com/shop/ 15/
Upcoming appearances:
* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds(@CityLightsBooks), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero…
* Seize the Means of Computation, Konline Poland, Mar 4
konline.ava.waw.pl/konline
* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com 16/
Recent appearances:
* The Policy Implications of Web3 (@StanfordCyber)
* Big Tech & Surveillance Capitalism (@shaunattwood):
* Bringing Back Luddites (@OhNoPodcast)
ohnopodcast.com/investigations… 17/
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… 18/
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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com. 20/
My latest @Medium column is: "We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one"
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Today's top sources: @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 24/
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