Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/ten…
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Today (3/10), @Rgibli and I kick off the @SXSW reading series:
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in: Teneo works exactly like their claims about the nonexistent Vast Leftist Conspiracy.
Hey look at this 3/
* How 3 Mergers Buttressed Google’s Adtech Monopoly techpolicy.press/how-three-merg…
* HP outrages users with update bricking third-party ink arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…
* Silicon Valley Bank scrambles to reassure clients after 60% wipe-out reuters.com/business/finan… (h/t @NB_Chris) 4/
#20yrsago #Google notes from #SXSW cruftbox.com/blog/archives/…
#15yrsago Rules against questioning security make us less secure theguardian.com/technology/200…
#15yrsago Presidential candidates as #MonsterManual monsters antipope.org/charlie/blog-s… 5/
#15yrsago Canada’s #DMCA: unnecessary, ill-starred and doomed web.archive.org/web/2008031302…
#15yrsago #Schneier: transparency is not security wired.com/2008/03/securi…
#15yrsago Maximum City: exhausting and beautiful love-note to #Mumbai memex.craphound.com/2008/03/10/max… 6/
#15yrsago FBI interrogator: #Torture doesn’t work, breeds terrorism
#5yrsago Bad news: #Omega3s don’t confer any significant health benefits; good news: They’re mostly harmless jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac… 7/
#5yrsago #Wikimedia’s transparency report is a joy diff.wikimedia.org/2018/03/06/wik…
#5yrsago Thinking in Bets: a poker-master’s Jedi mind-trick for being less wrong memex.craphound.com/2018/03/10/thi… 8/
Yesterday's threads: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; 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:
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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.
Signed copies at @darkdel:
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* @SXSW #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 3/10
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP…
* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, 3/20
events.iu.edu/ostromworkshop… 13/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…
* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro… 14/
Recent appearances:
* @RuBlackListNET Privacy Day
* Factually With @adamconover:
stitcher.com/show/factually…
* Making Big Tech Better vs Making it Smaller (@BruxConf2023):
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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). 19/
Today's top sources: Eric Umansky (@ericuman). 20/
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