Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia; and more!
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Next Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. In-person and virtual attendance are free:
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On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
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Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia: Corporate "recycling" programs are just obfuscated landfills.
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Hey look at this
* A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline propublica.org/article/libert… 4/
#20yrsago Jailhouse cellphone used to command Brazillian terror campaign web.archive.org/web/2003041515…
#20yrsago Scottish accents incomprehensible to speech-to-text algorithms web.archive.org/web/2003030114… 5/
#20yrsago Google’s trademark counsel sending out dumb lawyer-letters over “to google” web.archive.org/web/2003040122…
#20yrsago Laboring mother liveblogs her daughter's birth ambiguous.org/quinn/birth/
#20yrsago 7.6 billion miles later, #Pioneer10 falls silent seattlepi.com/national/artic… 6/
#20yrsago Suicide hotline operator finds work counselling data-loss victims sfgate.com/business/artic…
#20yrsago ThreeDegress: Microsoft's #DRM for Kids is unbelievably terrible web.archive.org/web/2003030714… 7/
#15yrsago Apple TV DRM makes iTunes rentals incompatible with many TVs tidbits.com/2008/02/20/drm…
#15yrsago Life and times of a #ConsumerReports secret shopper wired.com/2008/02/ps-con…
#15yrsago New typography term: #Keming (improper kerning) ironicsans.com/2008/02/idea_a… 8/
#15yrsago Complaining about companies is part of the market web.archive.org/web/2008021206…
#10yrsago Rage is Back: graffiti crews save NYC from its lurking demons memex.craphound.com/2013/02/25/rag… 9/
#5yrsago #KochBrothers publish letter crowing about all the ways Trump spent the year carrying water for them theintercept.com/2018/02/25/koc…
#5yrsago Stock market gains to the richest 2% of Americans in 2017 could pay for the entire nation’s social programs commondreams.org/views/2018/02/… 10/
#5yrsago Man discovers he has been impersonated on Amazon by a money-launderer selling $555 “books” full of computer-generated word salad krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-… 11/
#5yrsago Lobbyists release push-poll in an effort to tank #RightToRepair bills and control independent security research securityledger.com/2018/02/new-lo…
#5yrsago Why the #VotingAge should be lowered to 16 eclectablog.com/2018/02/theres… 12/
#5yrsago A cybersecurity #StyleGuide bishopfox.com/blog/intro-cyb… 13/
Friday's threads: This is your brain on fraud apologetics; 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:
* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
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* @ElevateFestival (#Graz), 3/3
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* @utsdct (#Austin), 2/9
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture (@umanitobasci), 2/9
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* @SXSW #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 2/10
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