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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/16/com…

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Next Monday (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series

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Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping: Everybody knows that the dice are loaded.

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Hey look at this

* How 3 Democrats’ last-minute dealings killed Gigi Sohn’s FCC nomination for good dailydot.com/debug/gigi-soh…

* Bring the LED Zeppelin Art Car to #BurningMan 2023 kickstarter.com/projects/ledze…

* The KDS1-VW chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-s1… 4/

#20yrsago New Mexico bill upholds Constitution, spits in Feds’ eye web.archive.org/web/2003031306… Regular/memorials/house/HJM040.html

#20yrsago Scary first-person account of #SARS web.archive.org/web/2003080607… 5/

#15yrsago Scotland Yard wants DNA samples from 5-year-olds in case they grow up to be criminals; Oyster card records to become part of “war on terror” theguardian.com/society/2008/m…

#10yrsago Maria Del Camino: an #ArtCar that’s part tank, part El Camino wired.com/2013/03/maria-… 6/

#10yrsago @eff explains yesterday’s #NationalSecurityLetter ruling eff.org/press/releases…

#5yrsago Washington State lawmaker thinks the courts will uphold state #NetNeutrality law because the FCC abdicated its duty arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 7/

#5yrsago Big Telco hates “regulation,” but they love their billions in government handouts wired.com/story/the-dang…

#5yrsago Austin bombings: literal American carnage meets with Trumpian indifference theintercept.com/2018/03/15/aus… 8/

#5yrsago #BruceSterling’s 2018 #SXSW keynote: Disrupting Dystopia, or what the tech arts scene could and should be soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/d… 9/

#5yrsago #Clearchannel took over America’s local radio, #BainCapital took over Clearchannel, Clearchannel went bankrupt wolfstreet.com/2018/03/15/bai…

#1yrago The role of prose quality in scholarship pluralistic.net/2022/03/16/mig… 10/

Yesterday's threads: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists; 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:

* @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 at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* 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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