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Inside: Podcasting "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/07/inf…
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Podcasting "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local": A chance for individuals to make a difference.
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#20yrsago Heartbreaking naivete gets techsupport worker fired web.archive.org/web/2005011210…
#15yrsago Open letter to Steve Jobs: put your DRM where your mouth is defectivebydesign.org/actions/open_l…
#10yrsago Huxley’s fan-letter to Orwell for Nineteen Eighty-Four lettersofnote.com/2012/03/06/198… 3/
#10yrsago More evidence that financial speculators drive crazy food-price swings wired.com/2012/03/specul…
#5yrsago 40% of households in Philadelphia can’t pay their water bill nakedcapitalism.com/2017/03/americ… 4/
#5yrsago Porno-copyright troll behind “Prenda Law” pleads guilty to everything arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 5/
Yesterday's threads: Student debt strike called for May 1
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Hey Look At This:
* BBC now a Tor hidden service bbc.com/news/technolog… (h/t @dangillmor)
* Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics… (h/t @jstruan)
* NYT Tech Workers Vote to Certify Union nytimes.com/2022/03/03/bus… (h/t @slashddot) 7/
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:
* @make Vol 80 launch party (Mar 10)
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* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (@News_CRA/Brussels), Mar 31
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* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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Recent appearances:
* Safety Orange (@TWiT)
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* Seize the Means of Computation (Boston Computation Club)
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* Policy Implications of Web3 (@StanfordCyber)
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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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