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Inside: Monopolists want to create human inkjet printers; and more!

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Next week (Jun 15/16) I'm speaking in #London at the CMAgovUK Data Technology and Analytics conference

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Monopolists want to create human inkjet printers: The war on your pancreas continues.

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Hey look at this

* @SenWarren's Congressional fundraiser for trustbuster/@aaronsw ally @DavidSegalRI secure.actblue.com/donate/dscanti…

* Banana-based random-number generator valerionappi.it/brng-en/

* @ProfKateJudge's amazing anti-middleman book 'Direct' bookshop.org/books/direct-t… 4/

#10yrsago Women beat 18-34 men for tech adoption and purchasing power theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

#10yrsago Internet freedom activists arrested/detained after Internet freedom conferences slate.com/technology/201… 5/

#10yrsago Farcical wishlist from Canada’s copyright/pharma lobby: warrantless search, Canadian SOPA, jail time for downloaders, public subsidy of copyright enforcement web.archive.org/web/2012061016… 6/

#5yrsago Chinese Apple employees and contractors sold users’ private data for as little as $1.50 hongkongfp.com/2017/06/08/chi…

#5yrsago “Do you want Catalonia to be an independent country in the form of a republic?” theguardian.com/world/2017/jun… 7/

#5yrsago How @EFF cracked printers’ “hidden dots” code in 2005

#1yrago Urban broadband deserts: Digital redlining is a policy, not an accident pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/fli… 8/

#1yrago A denialism taxonomy: FLICC (fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking, conspiracy theories) pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/fli… 9/

#1yrago Prisoners' Inventions: The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation pluralistic.net/2021/06/09/kin… 10/

Wednesday's threads: Powered wheelchairs and Right to Repair; 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:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 13/

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:

* @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:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event…

* Privacy is the New Celebrity
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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… 17/

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My latest @Medium column is "Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism"

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Today's top sources: Lane Desborough, @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 23/