Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/04/pic…
#Pluralistic 1/
On 3/7 I'm doing a remote talk for #TUWein:
informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373
On 3/9, I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
And remote at #UManitoba:
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…
On 3/10, @Rgibli and I kick off the @SXSW reading series:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation: You CAN please all of the people all of the time (sorta).
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Hey look at this
* After Password Sharing Crackdown Backlash, Netflix Deops Prices (Not In USA) techdirt.com/2023/02/28/aft…
* A Second Chance for Yesterday: time-travel tale scifinow.co.uk/books/a-second…
* Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891) publicdomainreview.org/collection/sca… 4/
#20yrsago Spectrum Etiquette: Two Proposals memex.craphound.com/2003/03/02/spe…
#20yrsago Farber and Faulhaber’s argument for commons spectrum allocation memex.craphound.com/2003/03/01/far…
#20yrsago “Easement #commons” isn’t enough memex.craphound.com/2003/03/01/eas… 5/
#20yrsago Commons #spectrum isn’t like a park! memex.craphound.com/2003/03/01/com…
#20yrsago Moot court on property versus commons for #SpectrumAllocation memex.craphound.com/2003/03/01/moo… 6/
#20yrsago The people’s #FirstAmendment rights should not be auctioned off to media barons memex.craphound.com/2003/03/01/the…
#15yrsago #PublicBroadcaster + #Bittorrent = massive public savings nrkbeta.no/2008/03/02/tho… 7/
#15yrsago How (and why) the #GreatFirewallOfChina works theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
#15yrsago @nineinchnails goes @CreativeCommons remix-friendly with new album web.archive.org/web/2008030501…
#15yrsago Engineering approach to global #ClimateChange craphound.com/etech08_Saul_G… 8/
#15yrsago Question Box: the Internet for remote places, no literacy or keyboards required questionbox.org
#15yrsago Why hardware #EbookReaders are a dead end (for now, anyway) locusmag.com/Features/2008/… 9/
#15yrsago Fake cold remedy #Airborne settles lawsuit — get your cash back archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.…
#10yrsago Cops abduct 6-y-o for going to the store on her own, initially refuse to return to her dad freerangekids.com/cops-detain-6-… 10/
#10yrsago Inside the prosecution of @AaronSw finance.yahoo.com/news/life-insi…
#10yrsago What’s the most utopian fiction of all? locusmag.com/2013/03/cory-d…
#10yrsago How an algorithm came up with Amazon’s KEEP CALM AND RAPE A LOT t-shirt web.archive.org/web/2013030501… 11/
#10yrsago America’s #SixStrikes copyright system is a nightmare eff.org/deeplinks/2013…
#10yrsago Journalists took secret money for critical pieces about #Malaysian opposition candidate buzzfeednews.com/article/rosieg… 12/
#10yrsago @USTradeRep orders Canada to comply with the dead-and-buried #ACTA treaty, Canada rolls over and wets itself eff.org/deeplinks/2013…
#10yrsago Impulse: At long last, a new Jumper novel from @StevenGould memex.craphound.com/2013/03/01/imp… 13/
#5yrsago #Adblock will cache popular Javascript libraries, meaning adblocked pages will be faster and less janky bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/…
#5yrsago @AjitPai forced to return the gun the NRA gave him as a prize for his neutracidal rampage politico.com/story/2018/03/… 14/
#5yrsago #FrenchPolynesia says it didn’t renew its deal with the #Seasteaders, a group of #libertarian separatists rnz.co.nz/international/…
#5yrsago CEO of Trustico emails 23,000 HTTPS private keys, triggering panicked mass-revocation arstechnica.com/information-te… 15/
#5yrsago @United axes its employee bonus program, replaces it with a lottery, saving millions thepointsguy.co.uk/2018/03/united…
#5yrsago Don’t give a dime to the #DCCC, they’ll just use to front #DINOs and smear Justice Democrats thenation.com/article/archiv… 16/
#1yrago How English #LibelLaw enables #Russian kleptocrats pluralistic.net/2022/03/04/lon…
#1yrago #Defi and #ShadowBanking 2.0 pluralistic.net/2022/03/02/sha…
#1yrago How "hollowed" hotels are destroying worker rights: #REITs aren't just for money laundering pluralistic.net/2022/03/01/rei… 17/
Tuesday's threads: VW wouldn't help find kidnapped child because his mother wasn't paying for find-my-car subscription; 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… 19/
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… 20/
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/ 21/
Upcoming appearances:
* Seize the Means of Computation (TU Wein), 3/7
informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373
* @utsdct (#Austin), 3/9
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…
* Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture (@umanitobasci), 3/9
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e… 22/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @SXSW #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 3/10
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP…
* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, Mar 20
events.iu.edu/ostromworkshop… 23/
Recent appearances:
* @ANUmedia/@canberratimes Meet The Author
soundcloud.com/experience_anu…
* The Gould Standard
pod.link/thegouldstanda…
* @RNDrive:
abc.net.au/radionational/… 24/
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