Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/21/mal…
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#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but @GovHochul hasn't signed it and it might die. Visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!). 2/
How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: ...and what we should do about it.
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Hey look at this
* No Nudity Allowed: Censoring Naked Yoga eff.org/deeplinks/2022…
* Henry Ford, Elon Musk, and the Dark Path to Extremism theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elo…
* The Great Autonomous Vehicle Capitulation wolfliving.tumblr.com/post/704170405… 4/
#15yrsago Trade court allows #Antigua to violate US #copyright nytimes.com/2007/12/22/bus…
#10yrsago New Orleans schools ban teaching Creationism, reject Texas Creationist “science” textbooks web.archive.org/web/2012122119… 5/
#10yrsago Book digitization: 1971-present blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012…
#10yrsago Go opt out of #Instagram’s bullshit #ArbitrationClause, right now consumerist.com/2012/12/21/her… 6/
#5yrsago @ArsTechnica’s @dangoodin001 is being sued by Keeper Security over an article about a defect in its password manager documentcloud.org/documents/4333…
#5yrsago #Daranide, a 1958 drug, used to be free – now it costs your insurer at least $109,500/year latimes.com/business/la-fi… 7/
#5yrsago #Trump’s #SpaceCouncil chief says space is “not a commons” and promises that it will become property of US corporations qz.com/1159540/space-… 8/
#5yrsago The majority of US workers live in “employment #monopsonies” where there is little or no #competition for workers papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
#5yrsago After #Grenfell, local UK governments pay the developers who chose lethal cladding to replace it web.archive.org/web/2017121310… 9/
#5yrsago “Blatantly unlawful”: companies use Facebook targeting to ensure older workers don’t see help-wanted ads propublica.org/article/facebo… 10/
#5yrsago The Australian health authority believed it had “anonymised” a data-set of patient histories, but academics were easily able to unscramble it pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/under… 11/
#5yrsago @PropOTP sues the @FBI for details on “Gravestone,” its reassuringly named secret mass-surveillance tool sparrowmedia.net/wp-content/upl… 12/
Yesterday's threads: 2023's public domain is a banger; 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:
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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:
* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (#NewOrleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow
* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…
* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (#Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 17/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration
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Recent appearances:
* New Books in Public Policy (@PitPolicy):
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* How to take back the arts from Big Tech (@TheRealNews)
* @dartsandletters:
dartsandletters.ca/2022/12/12/ep7… 19/
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered). 23/
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