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Inside: Countervaling power; and more!

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Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

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Countervaling power: Finding the hairball's loose ends.

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Hey look at this

* Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage wired.com/story/chip-sho…

* Nick Robinson speaks to Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT union bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

* Journey Back Into Imagination …urneybackintoimagination.blogspot.com (h/t Wil Wheaton) 4/

#20yrsago The 1997 prototype for parasitic computing web.archive.org/web/2001060502…

#20yrsago The difference between OS X and Linux web.archive.org/web/2002070919…

#20yrsago Michael Jackson: music industry is a racist conspiracy to steal from artists billboard.com/music/music-ne… 5/

#20yrsago More sharp notes on Palladium web.archive.org/web/2002080214…

#10yrsago The UK has spent more money bailing out its banks in the past 12 months than it has spent on science since the time of Christ bbc.com/news/av/uk-pol… 6/

#10yrsago Def Leppard cuts off Universal Music, re-records “forgeries” of its own hits hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n…

#10yrsago My stupidest moment as a customer, ever memex.craphound.com/2012/07/06/my-…

#10yrsago Mitt Romney doesn’t know how Venn diagrams work thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012… 7/

#10yrsago Just Do It doc on direct-action environmentalists now available as free, CC-licensed BitTorrent download web.archive.org/web/2012062908…

#10yrsago Austerity creates an organlegging bubble nytimes.com/2012/06/29/wor… 8/

#10yrsago Rand and Ron Paul denounce net neutrality and the public domain techdirt.com/2012/07/05/ron…

#10yrsago Scientology memo asks members to censor critical web comments with trumped up “code of conduct” complaints news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/… 9/

#10yrsago John @Scalzi profiled in the NYT nytimes.com/2012/07/07/boo…

#5yrsago Theresa May says she won’t address climate change at the G20 summit independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… 10/

#5yrsago Networks hide badly rated shows by misspelling their names in Nielsen submissions cnet.com/culture/entert…

#5yrsago Under Trumpcare, surviving a gunshot wounds gives you a “pre-existing condition” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 11/

#5yrsago The W3C has overruled members’ objections and will publish its DRM for videos eff.org/deeplinks/2017…

#5yrsago How to write pulp fiction that celebrates humanity’s essential goodness locusmag.com/2017/07/cory-d… 12/

#5yrsago America is starting to realize that “liberal/conservative” labels exclude the left nytimes.com/2017/07/05/mag…

#1yrsago Quantifying copyright reversion: The first-of-its-kind dataset of creators who took back their rights pluralistic.net/2021/07/06/bac… 13/

#1yrago Comic book store files comic-book lawsuit: Third Planet Comics has already won its case…in my heart pluralistic.net/2021/07/07/ins…

#1yrago Biden delivers Right to Repair via executive order pluralistic.net/2021/07/07/ins… 14/

#1yrago Technological self-determination: Competition is a means, not an end pluralistic.net/2021/07/07/ins… 15/

Tuesday's threads: "The Swerve"; 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 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:

* A New @HOPEconf (NYC), Jul 24
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* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
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Recent appearances:

* @CMAgovUK Data, Technology and Analytics Conference:


* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith with @briebriejoy):
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* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
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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 "Shovel-Ready: A half-to-three-quarters-baked idea to fix capitalism"

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