Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: QE, inflation, slave labor and a People's Bailout; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/07/oba…

#Pluralistic

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Baycon 2020 - where I was scheduled to be guest of honor - has reconstituted as a series of online panels; mine's today at 1:45 Pacific:

How do we survive Social Engineering?
baycon.org/baycon-2021-zo…

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QE, inflation, slave labor and a People's Bailout: Uber is a (terrible) job guarantee program.



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#15yrsago Singapore’s stocking-foot executioner web.archive.org/web/2005110503…

#10yrsago Colorado DA drops felony hit-and-run charges against billion-dollar financier because of “serious job implications” web.archive.org/web/2010110812…

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#5yrsago Typewriter portraiture, the strange story of 1920s ASCII art theattic.jezebel.com/the-typewriter…

#5yrsago TPP will let banks write their own regulations and stick taxpayers with the bill theintercept.com/2015/11/06/ttp…

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#5yrsago Paid Patriotism: Pentagon spent millions bribing sports teams to recognize military service huffpost.com/entry/defense-…

#5yrsago Once again, the SFPD blames a cyclist for his own death without any investigation sfist.com/2015/11/04/sfp…

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#5yrsago Religious children more punitive, less likely to display altruism theguardian.com/world/2015/nov…

#5yrsago A Freedom of Information request for UK Home Secretary Theresa May’s metadata techdirt.com/articles/20151…

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#1yrago Leaked internal docs show that Facebook shuts down access to user data to kill competitors, but claims it is protecting users nbcnews.com/news/all/leake…

#1yrago The case for breaking up Disney mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-…

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Yesterday's threads: HP ends its customers' lives; and more!



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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: darkdel.com/store/p1840/Av…

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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) 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/

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Upcoming appearances:

* How do we survive Social Engineering? Nov 7, Baycon, baycon.org/baycon-2021-zo…

* How to Fix the Internet/Reboot 2020, Nov 9, rebootconference.org/day-two

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Recent appearances:

* Author Stories Podcast


* The Gould Standard:
glenngould.ca/thegouldstanda…

* Attack Surface: A Reckoning
draxfiles.com/2020/10/26/sho…

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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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Nolte has just published her first book on the subject: Boundless Realm, and - speaking as someone who's read dozens of books on theme parks and the Mansion - I can say that it is the very best book on the subject ever written.

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Inside: Villainry revealed by Monty Python Latin; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/08/big…

#Pluralistic

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I'm giving a talk tomorrow at the Reboot Conference at 12PM Pacific:

How to Fix the Internet

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Villainry revealed by Monty Python Latin: "Bravus" means "crooked," not "brave."



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theguardian.com/business/2020/…

to seeking the power to execute no-knock search-warrants on activists' homes:

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