Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Guide to a ripoff-free funeral; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/09/hig…
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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/
Guide to a ripoff-free funeral: Terminal-stage capitalism.
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Hey look at this
* An environmentalist gets lunch worksinprogress.substack.com/p/notes-on-pro… (h/t Fipi Lele)
* Honoring Peter Eckersley, Who Made the Internet a Safer Place for Everyone eff.org/deeplinks/2022…
* @Proctorio doesn't stop cheating 4/
#10yrsago Increasingly desperate quest to find photos to illustrate news stories about Eurozone crisis spiegel.de/international/…
#5yrsago The Voynich Manuscript appears to be a fairly routine anthology of ancient women’s health advice the-tls.co.uk/articles/voyni… 5/
#5yrsago Australia’s housing bubble is built on a deadly, about-to-burst credit bubble news.com.au/finance/econom…
#5yrsago Equifax lobbied to take away breach victims’ right to sue ibtimes.com/political-capi… 6/
#5yrsago Equifax’s dox of America: Sign up for “free” monitoring, get billed forever web.archive.org/web/2017091102… 7/
Yesterday's threads: Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures; The horrifying tale of a blockchain-based virtual sweatshop; 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… 9/
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… 10/
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/ 11/
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… 12/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/s… 13/
Recent appearances:
* Launch for @Motherboard's Terraform antho
vice.com/en/article/3ad…
* 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… 14/
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… 15/
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My latest Medium column is "Parenting and Phones, an Empowering Approach"
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