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Inside: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/21/the…
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Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds": A return to "Lovecraft Country."
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#20yrsago Bertelsmann sued over #Napster web.archive.org/web/2003040120…
#15yrsago Random House Audio abandons audiobook #DRM craphound.com/DRMLetter22108…
#15yrsago Collective intelligence spontaneously arises among #ARG players — paper from I Love Bees creator avantgame.com/McGonigal_WhyI… 3/
#10yrsago @EFF’s new international director: @mala eff.org/press/releases…
#10yrsago Music industry hates anti-spam laws michaelgeist.ca/2013/02/music-… 4/
#10yrsago Corporations are people, so the city of Seattle can’t have an opt-out policy for spammy phonebooks no one wants jeffreifman.com/2013/02/21/cor…
#5yrsago Online security is a disaster and the people who investigate it are being sued into silence zdnet.com/article/chilli… 5/
#5yrsago The Copyright Office is spending the year deciding technology’s future, but the future doesn’t get a seat at the table eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
#1yrago The people's disruption: Tech rights are workers' rights pluralistic.net/2022/02/21/con… 6/
#1yrago A(nother) massive Swiss banking leak pluralistic.net/2022/02/21/con… 7/
Yesterday's threads: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU; and more!
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
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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.
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Upcoming appearances:
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* @sxsw #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 2/10
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Recent appearances:
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* @RNDrive:
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My latest Medium column is "Twiddler: Configurability for Me, But Not For Thee"
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