Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Excuseflation; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/pri…
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Excuseflation: Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste.
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Hey look at this
* Letter from Daniel Ellsberg, diagnosed with terminal cancer ceasefire.ca/wp-content/upl… (h/t Gord Doctorow) 3/
#20yrsago @mkapor quits #Groove board, reportedly over Total Info Awareness nytimes.com/2003/03/11/bus…
#15yrsago @lessig publicly humiliates Andrew Keen web.archive.org/web/2008031321… 4/
#15yrsago New-old stock of Bell Labs’s cardboard teaching computer, the #CARDIAC web.archive.org/web/2008040406…
#15yrsago HOWTO Be blogged web.archive.org/web/2008031315… 5/
#10yrsago Inside the awful world of #RATters – the men who spy on people through their computers with “remote administration tools” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#10yrsago New Brazilian environmental political party based on social networking globalvoices.org/2013/03/09/for… 6/
#5yrsago RIP #KateWilhelm, science fiction great and co-founder of the Clarion Workshop facebook.com/richard.wilhel… 7/
#5yrsago Singapore, where the government owns most of the land and housing and a stake in most business is the American right’s “capitalist ideal” peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/03/09/how…
#1yrsago The SEC must not legitimize fake "#CarbonOffsets" pluralistic.net/2022/03/11/a-m… 8/
Yesterday's threads: The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in; 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:
* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, 3/20
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* @iftf Changing the Register, 3/22
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
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* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
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Recent appearances:
* @RuBlackListNET Privacy Day
* Factually With @adamconover:
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* Making Big Tech Better vs Making it Smaller (@BruxConf2023):
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