Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures; The horrifying tale of a blockchain-based virtual sweatshop; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/08/tor…
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I'm Kickstarting a DRM-free audiobook of Chokepoint Capitalism, the book @rgibli and I wrote about how tech- and entertainment monopolies rip off artists, and how to unrig those terrible labor markets:
kickstarter.com/projects/docto…
("This book really gets it" - @StephenFry) 2/
Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures: On the "attack philanthropy" of Barre Seid.
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The horrifying tale of a blockchain-based virtual sweatshop: "Anda's Game" was a warning, not a suggestion.
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Hey look at this
* Disney’s ‘Remembering’ deadline.com/2022/09/disney…
* The Humiliating History of the TSA theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa… (h/t Fipi Lele)
* The democratic theory of “A Half-Built Garden” crookedtimber.org/2022/09/07/the… 5/
#10yrsago Tim Berners-Lee blasts UK government’s Internet spying plan telegraph.co.uk/technology/int…
#10yrsago Copyfraud: making the case for actual copyright enforcement memex.craphound.com/2012/09/07/cop… 6/
#5yrsago Superstorms are tearing up America’s crumbling, neglected infrastructure jacobin.com/2017/09/infras…
#5yrsago Four years later, we learn why Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan Chase settled US fraud allegations for $13B vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/j… 7/
#5yrsago Florida Sheriff warns storm victims to expect warrant checks at hurricane shelters nytimes.com/2017/09/06/us/…
#5yrsago A pacifist minister reflects on the antifa who protected protesters from Charlottesville’s armed Nazis radicaldiscipleship.net/2017/08/23/my-… 8/
#5yrsago Voice assistants can be hacked by commanding them with inaudible ultrasonic speech 9/
Yesterday's threads: How Audible steals from creators (an Audible exclusive); 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… 11/
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… 12/
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."
craphound.com/shop/ 13/
Upcoming appearances:
* Canadians Connected (Ottawa), 9/15
member.cira.ca/Events/Canadia…
* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), 9/21-24
live.unfinished.com
* Chokepoint Capitalism, @BookSoup (LA), 9/27
booksoup.com/event/cory-doc…
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:
* Crypto and the Left (@TBSocialist)
theblockchainsocialist.com/crypto-and-the…
* The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (@curaffairs) patreon.com/posts/cory-doc…
* DRM Secretly Polices You (@dtnsshow)
dailytechnewsshow.com/2022/07/29/drm… 15/
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… 16/
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