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Inside: Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/06/15/sim…

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

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Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers: $100m flushed down the drain in Massachusetts.

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Hey look at this

* @k9mail_app will become @mozthunderbird for Android arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/0… (h/t @Slashdot)

* "Like all successful fascist narratives, [Top Gun] portrays our enemies as simultaneously all-powerful and extremely weak" letterboxd.com/bretterbox/fil… (h/t @JWZ) 4/

#20yrsago Colorado homeowners’ associations demand green lawns as the state burns web.archive.org/web/2002062903…

#15yrsago HOWTO make ice-straws web.archive.org/web/2007071717… 5/

#10yrsago Woman legislator in Michigan barred from future debates for using the word “vagina” in abortion debate npr.org/sections/thetw…

#5yrsago What’s worse than shitty, hacked voting machines? Unauditable, shitty voting machines wired.com/story/georgia-… 6/

#5yrsago Not just savers! Wells Fargo also defrauded bankrupt mortgage borrowers nytimes.com/2017/06/14/bus…

#5yrsago American regions with high immigration enjoy persistent, long-term higher incomes and lower unemployment nber.org/digest/jun17/l… 7/

#1yrago Taxes are for the little people: If your eyes glaze over at "carried interest loophole," wait'll you hear about "fee waivers" pluralistic.net/2021/06/15/gui… 8/

Yesterday's threads: Adventure Capitalism; 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:

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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:

* @CMAgovUK Data Technology/Analytics (London), Jun 15-16
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* A New @HOPEconf (NYC), Jul 24
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Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
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* 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.

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My latest @Medium column is "Direct: The Problem of Middlemen," a review of @profkatejudge's debut book about the problems of the middleman economy.

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Today's top sources: @Gizmodo (gizmodo.com). 21/