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/
Recent appearances:
* @ANUmedia/@canberratimes Meet The Author
soundcloud.com/experience_anu…
* The Gould Standard
pod.link/thegouldstanda…
* @RNDrive:
abc.net.au/radionational/… 18/
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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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