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Author/activist/journalist. New book: THE BEZZLE, a thriller about the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve https://t.co/4ZExCQHv6q @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Feb 23, 2023, 23 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/sta…

#Pluralistic 1/

Next Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. Both in-person and virtual attendance are free:

brusselsconference.com/registration

On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @elevatefestival: 2/

Fighting the privacy wars, state by state: Treating Congress as damage and routing around it.

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Hey look at this

* Help @propublica Journalists Investigate the Dairy Industry propublica.org/getinvolved/he…

* Let's build a #Chrome extension that steals everything mattfrisbie.substack.com/p/spy-chrome-e…

* The Left Bank’s Warning About #WallStreet levernews.com/the-left-banks… (h/t @davidsirota) 5/

#15yrsago Video explains timeshifting and Canadian copyright

#10yrsago @lessig’s Harvard Law lecture: “#AaronsLaw

#10yrsago #RIAA you suck at #SEO techdirt.com/2013/02/21/ria… 6/

#5yrsago Taking one cent, ever, from the #NRA should disqualify you from ever running for office as a Democrat theintercept.com/2018/02/23/tee…

#5yrsago You know who hates #NetNeutrality? The #NRA gizmodo.com/the-nra-just-a… 7/

#5yrsago China sets up anonymous snitch-line to report strippers at funerals web.archive.org/web/2018022007… 8/

#5yrsago Before standing for the Democratic nomination in a NY congressional race, Patrick Ryan was in business spying on union organizers and left-wing activists theintercept.com/2018/02/22/pat… 9/

#5yrsago Judge finds that #Disney “misused copyright” when it tried to stop #Redbox from renting download codes bbc.com/news/technolog… 10/

#5yrsago In 2009 a NJ judge banned hooking up voting machines to the internet, but that’s exactly how ES&S’s “airgapped” machines work freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/02/22/are…

#1yrago China hamstrings its Big Tech pluralistic.net/2022/02/22/nat… 11/

Tuesday's threads: Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds"; 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… 13/

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… 14/

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/ 15/

Upcoming appearances:

* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration

* @elevatefestival (#Graz), 3/3
elevate.at/diskurs/progra…

* Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture (@umanitobasci), 2/9
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e… 16/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @sxsw #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 2/10
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 17/

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Twiddler: Configurability for Me, But Not For Thee"

doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9… 20/

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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). 22/

Today's top sources: @slashdot (slashdot.org). 23/

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