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Inside: The (billionaires') case against billionaires; and more!

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Tomorrow (May 12), I'm participating in an @imaginationASU workshop called "The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech"

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The (billionaires') case against billionaires: Turns out, we live in a society.

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Hey look at this

* Bossware comparison chart surfshark.com/employee-surve… (h/t @maassive)

* Who Gets Access to Fast Broadband in Los Angeles? arnicusc.org/who-gets-acces… (h/t @EFFFalcon) 4/

#20yrsago The harder you look at the DMCA, the stupider it gets thelookingglass.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_arc…

#20yrago John Gilmore gives Intel hell people.well.com/user/doctorow/…

#15yrsago HOWTO explain quantum theory to a dog web.archive.org/web/2007051809… 5/

#10yrsago Google search ranking is editorial in nature and qualifies for First Amendment protection arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago Jeff Sessions wants to bring back long mandatory prison sentences for minor drug offenses washingtonpost.com/world/national… 6/

#5yrsago Wrapping up the @crookedtimber seminar on Walkaway: Coase’s Spectre crookedtimber.org/2017/05/10/coa…

#5yrsago Most European millennials would join “a large-scale uprising” wsws.org/en/articles/20… 7/

#5yrsago What’s inside a phone that’s designed to fit inside your rectum? hackaday.com/2017/05/11/tea…

#5yrsago Trump plans ban on laptops in the cabins of flights from Europe reuters.com/article/us-usa… 8/

#5yrago Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany’s legendary, paranoid secret police wired.com/2017/05/adrian… 9/

#5yrsago The 2020 Census is headed for a “train wreck” thanks to Trump’s mismanagementhttps://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/04/trumps-threat-to-the-2020-census-000404/

#5yrsago Apple’s control-freakery is making the Internet of Shit shittier theverge.com/circuitbreaker… 10/

#5yrsago Crashed computer at Oslo pizzeria reveals covert facial recognition scheme

#1yrago Let's eat all the cicadas pluralistic.net/2021/05/11/uni…

#1yrago Cyclopedia Exotica: @aminder_d's cryptid history of our one-eyed cousins pluralistic.net/2021/05/11/uni… 11/

#1yrago LA traveling toward free public transit pluralistic.net/2021/05/10/com…

#1yrago Biden's shift on vaccine patents is a Big Deal pluralistic.net/2021/05/10/com… 12/

Monday's threads: At the FTC, a quiet, profound shift on antitrust; 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
events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-world/p… 17/

Upcoming appearances:

* @CMAgovUK Data Technology/Analytics (London), Jun 15-16
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-tec…

* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 24
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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.

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My latest @Medium column is "About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors: What John Deere did to Russian looters, anyone can do to farmers, anywhere"

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