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Inside: An antitrust murder whodunnit; and more!
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Tomorrow (Oct 4), I'm appearing remotely in a @BKCHarvard seminar about "Chokepoint Capitalism," the book Rebecca Giblin and I just published about monopoly and unfairness in creative labor markets.
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An antitrust murder whodunnit: I accuse Judge Bork with the Powell Memo in the smoke-filled room.
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Hey look at this
* Disability Inclusion Fund RFP docs.google.com/document/d/1RB…
* RIP, Chandler Davis: political prisoner, sf writer, mathematician caseazatmiftakhov.org/2022/09/28/cha…
* The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 4/
#20yrsago Why is it so hard to get a cab in San Francisco? web.archive.org/web/2002100304…
#20yrsago Notes from OSXCon’s DRM and Digital Hub panel web.archive.org/web/2002101823…
#20yrsago Sidekick, your mobile blogging pal web.archive.org/web/2002101712… 5/
#15yrsago RIAA: Our anti-fan lawsuits are costing us millions arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#15yrsago Can “girl games” transcend shopping, fashion and babies? wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/200…
#15yrsago Charlie Stross’s Halting State: Heist novel about an MMORPG memex.craphound.com/2007/10/02/cha… 6/
#15yrsago The Future of Ignoring Things https://web.archive.org/web/20071011000250/https://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=479&doc_id=134703&
#10yrsago Congress: The DHS’s “fusion centers” full of bad intelligence, lies, and imaginary buildings nytimes.com/2012/10/03/us/… 7/
#10yrsago A Wrinkle in Time, worthy graphic novel adaptation memex.craphound.com/2012/10/03/a-w…
#10yrsago Costumes that integrate wheelchairs buzzfeed.com/babymantis/20-…
#10yrsago Japan competes with Panama to pass the world’s worst copyright law torrentfreak.com/anti-downloadi… 8/
#10yrsago The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There memex.craphound.com/2012/10/02/the…
#5yrsago The same Equifax exec who greenlit suspicious stock-sales was also in charge of cybersecurity consumerist.com/2017/10/02/the… 9/
#5yrsago Thanks to the EU, the UK’s privacy law may solve the mystery of Facebook and the last US election theguardian.com/technology/201…
#5yrsago Latest Federal Reserve figures show widening wealth inequality, and it’s much worse if you’re not white jacobin.com/2017/10/wealth… 10/
#5yrsago Spanish tech activists publish a “how-to guide for preserving fundamental rights on the Internet” xnet-x.net/en/how-to-guid…
#5yrsago @TimOReilly explains how self-driving cars will bankrupt Uber 11/
#5yrsago Taser says its weapons don’t kill people, so Reuters built a massive database of 1000+ Taser deaths reuters.com/investigates/s…
#5yrsago The London Underground thinks it can sell travelers’ attention and wifi data for £322m news.sky.com/story/tfl-may-… 12/
#5yrsago Yahoo revises number of hacked accounts from 500,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 arstechnica.com/information-te…
#5yrsago Trump’s ICE snitch-line is full of people secretly trying to deport their in-laws splinternews.com/this-is-what-i… 13/
#5yrsago Bluetooth sex toys are trivial to compromise just by walking around neighborhoods arstechnica.com/information-te…
#5yrsago /r/TheDonald on the Vegas shooting, before and after they learned it was a rich old white man reddit.com/r/sadcringe/co… 14/
#5yrsago Equifax: we missed 2.5 million people when we counted the size of our breach marketwatch.com/story/equifax-…
#5yrsago Trump’s pick for EPA pollution czar says kids are less sensitive to pollution than adults theintercept.com/2017/10/03/epa… 15/
#5yrsago Either we don’t live in a simulation, or computing works differently outside the Matrix web.archive.org/web/2017100216…
#5yrsago San Juan mayor barred from speaking on Trump’s Puerto Rico relief conference call independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… 16/
#5yrsago Supreme Court will rule on whether immigrants have constitutional rights abovethelaw.com/2017/10/does-t…
#5yrsago @greatdismal’s Archangel: a graphic story of the unfolding jackpot apocalypse memex.craphound.com/2017/10/03/wil… 17/
#1yrago How the IMF loan-sharks the global south pluralistic.net/2021/10/02/deb… 18/
Saturday's threads: How Palantir will steal the NHS; and more!
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from @BookSoup:
booksoup.com/book/978080700… 20/
My latest novel 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, @beaconPressBks et al) 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:
* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @BooksandBooks (Miami), 10/12
booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso…
* Reboot Conference, @JoinLincoln (Miami), 10/13
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* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @Rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
writersfestival.org/events/fall-20…
* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/registration
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:
* Eastern Blocks (@TWIT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…
* Triangulation: Chokepoint Capitalism
twit.tv/shows/twit-eve…
* Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (@MachineKillsPod)
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Happy #SpookySeason! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by @McRockefeller.
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