Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: At the FTC, a quiet, profound shift on antitrust; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/res…
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This Thursday (May 12), I'm participating in an @imaginationASU workshop called "The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech"
asu.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 2/
At the FTC, a quiet, profound shift on antitrust: Listening to "those who have experienced firsthand the effects of mergers and acquisitions beyond antitrust experts."
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Hey look at this
* Ben Franklin’s Abortion Recipe slate.com/news-and-polit… ("deeply rooted" h/t @yvessmith)
* Fuck Nfts Shirt tiotee.com/product/fuck-n…
* Why I, As a Libertarian, Think You’re Silly To Worry About Your So-Called Abortion Rights edroso.substack.com/p/why-i-as-a-l… 4/
#20yrsago Virus infects worm web.archive.org/web/2002080320…
#20yrsago Why Freenet? Why now? web.archive.org/web/2002080416…
#20yrsago Why secrecy sucks (digital TV DRM edition) web.archive.org/web/2002060516… 5/
#20yrsago Roll-your-own consensus and defeat the Hollyweird conspiracy memex.craphound.com/2002/05/09/rol…
#15yrsago Spider Robinson’s Hugo-winning “Melancholy Elephants” online spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelep…
#15yrsago AT&T whistle-blower interview wired.com/2007/05/spying… 6/
#15yrsago Giant coalition opposes Broadcast Treaty keionline.org/misc-docs/Stmt…
#15yrsago India trying to save the world from yoga patentshttps://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/opinion/07mehta.html
#15yrago BBC recruits Microsoft DRM exec web.archive.org/web/2007052309… 7/
#10yrsago RIP, Maurice Sendak theguardian.com/books/2012/may…
#10yrsago Welcome to your 2012 election season, let the suppression of political debate begin. eff.org/deeplinks/2012…
#10yrsago German Pirate Party wins seats in a third regional election techdirt.com/2012/05/07/pir… 8/
#10yrsago Why Tech Review is ditching its iPad edition web.archive.org/web/2012051003…
#10yrsago Geekdad on Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow wired.com/2012/05/cory-d… 9/
#10yrsago Buying DVDs just got worse thanks to obnoxious new anti-piracy warnings (pirating movies remains unchanged) wired.com/2012/05/anti-p…
#10yrsago Leaked DHS memo: Pornoscanners don’t work wired.com/2012/05/body-s… 10/
#10yrsago @NeilHimself on Maurice Sendak wired.com/2012/05/mauric…
#5yrsago Intel declared war on general purpose computing and lost, so now all our computers are broken memex.craphound.com/2017/05/09/int… 11/
#5yrsago John Oliver’s amazing new Net Neutrality video crashed the FCC’s website vice.com/en/article/3dx…
#1yrago How copyright filters lead to wage-theft pluralistic.net/2021/05/08/cop… 12/
Friday's threads: Safegraph follows people into abortion clinics and then sells the data; 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… 14/
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… 15/
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:
* Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech (@imaginationASU), May 12
asu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
* @openjsf Keynote (Austin), Jun 8
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Upcoming appearances:
* @CMAgovUK Data Technology/Analytics (London), Jun 15-16
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* A New @HOPEconf (NYC), Jul 24
hope.net 18/
Recent appearances:
* Revolutionizing Activism — The Power of Utopia (@theC4AA)
* A Little Patience and a Lot of Tape (@TWIT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…
* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (@forlifeitself podcast)
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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.
pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 20/
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Today's top sources: Lee Tien. 26/
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