Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Canada's privatised shadow civil service; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/01/31/mck…
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From Feb 8-17, I'll be in Australia, touring my book *Chokepoint Capitalism* with my co-author, Rebecca Giblin. We'll be in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, and I hope to see you!
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Canada's privatised shadow civil service: Tories claim governments are incompetent, Liberals prove it.
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Hey look at this
* Sci-Fi Short Film "Uprising!"
* 11 of the Sleaziest Snake Oil Ads From Trump's #TruthSocial gizmodo.com/donald-trump-t…
* every small city has that one dictator chic house mcmansionhell.com/post/707909502… 4/
#20yrsago Patron Saint sought for Internet cnn.com/2003/TECH/inte…
#20yrsago #SpaceShuttle runs #FreeSoftware and #OpenProtocols news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog…
#15yrsago Amazon buys #Audible, promises to kill #DRM if we complain washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content… 5/
#10yrsago #Noisebridge hackerspace explains fair use to Dreamworks noisebridge.net/wiki/Dreamwork…
#10yrsago 25 years of legal #abortion in #Canada torontoist.com/2013/01/r-v-mo…
#10yrsago Copyright, plagiarism and the Internet theguardian.com/technology/blo… 6/
#10yrsago Whitepaper on the #3DPrinting, patents, trademarks and copyrights web.archive.org/web/2013020109…
#5yrsago Investors throw $300m at dog-walking startup that hired ex-CEO of fraudulent anti-fraud company Lifelock businessinsider.com/wag-raises-300… 7/
#5yrsago Australian government’s worst-ever state-secrets leak: accidentally selling filing cabinets full of classified docs in a surplus store abc.net.au/news/2018-01-3… 8/
#5yrsago Automating Inequality: using algorithms to create a modern “digital poor-house” memex.craphound.com/2018/01/31/aut… 9/
#5yrsago Tory Council Leader’s son gets plum job with government contractor, teen constituent damned as an “appalling little child” for asking about it kingstonmatters.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/res… 10/
#5yrsago #CDC chief Brenda Fitzgerald quits after outed for buying into a tobacco company thehill.com/policy/healthc…
#5yrsago In-depth investigation of the Alibaba-to-Instagram pipeline for scammy crapgadgets with excellent branding jennyodell.com/museumofcapita… 11/
#1yrago Podcasting about #Pixsy, the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down pluralistic.net/2022/01/31/hee…
#1yrago Grappling with Big Wrestling pluralistic.net/2022/01/31/hee… 12/
Yesterday's threads: The real scandal is overclassification; The Australian Chokepoint Capitalism Tour; 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… 14/
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:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 15/
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."
craphound.com/shop/ 16/
Upcoming appearances:
* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…
* Avid Reader (#Brisbane), 2/8
avidreader.com.au/pages/6834-Cho…
* Future of Arts/Culture/Tech, @ACMI, (#Melbourne), 2/14
acmi.net.au/whats-on/in-co… 17/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @statelibrarynsw (#Sydney), 2/15
sl.nsw.gov.au/events/chokepo…
* ANU/@canberratimes Meet The Author (#Canberra), 2/16
anu.edu.au/events/in-conv…
* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (#Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 18/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 19/
Recent appearances:
* @davidpakmanshow
* TikTok Isn’t For Creators Anymore (@Slate ICMY)
slate.com/podcasts/icymi…
* Lunch on Laotian food (Eating the Fantastic)
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Today's top sources: @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 25/
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