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6 Jan, 24 tweets, 18 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The WELL State of the World; Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air; Mass court: "I agree" means something; Congress bans "little green men"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/06/met…

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The WELL State of the World: With special guest Malka Older.



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Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: How to sustainably eat the planet.



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Mass court: "I agree" means something: Finally, we find the bottom.



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Congress bans "little green men": No more anonymous federal snatch-squads.



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#5yrsago NZ police broke the law when they raided investigative journalist’s home techdirt.com/articles/20160…

#5yrsago Someone at the Chaos Communications Congress inserted a poem into at least 30 million servers’ logfiles vice.com/en/article/ezp…

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#5yrsago Bernie Sanders on small money donations vs sucking up to billionaires readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-7…

#5yrsago Weapons of Math Destruction: how Big Data threatens democracy

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#5yrsago Charter schools are turning into the next subprime mortgages papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

#5yrsago New York Public Library does the public domain right nypl.org/research/colle…

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#5yrsago The annual WELL State of the World, with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky people.well.com/conf/inkwell.v…

#1yrago Permitting the growth of monopolies is a form of government censorship locusmag.com/2020/01/cory-d…

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#1yrago The estranged anarchist daughter of the Republican gerrymandering mastermind inherited and dumped all his files vice.com/en/article/pke…

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#1yrago Republican New York State Assembly leader publishes anti-drunk driving PSA shortly before drunkenly crashing a state-owned car mpnnow.com/news/20200101/…

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#1yrago Massive Cambridge Analytica leak reveals global election manipulation: Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/j…

#1yrago Everything you wanted to know about money-laundering but were afraid to ask

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#1yrago Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change blog.lareviewofbooks.org/provocations/n…

#1yrago Podcast: Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things ia802806.us.archive.org/35/items/Cory_…

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Yesterday's threads: My Fellow Americans; Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism; South Carolina GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges"; Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers"; 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:

* What if the future of our public lives online looked like _____? (panel at New_ Public), Jan 13, newpublic.org/festival/event…

* Keynote for linux.conf.au, Jan 22 (US) 23 (Australia) linux.conf.au/schedule/

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Recent appearances:

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard):
play.acast.com/s/cyber/hedgin…

* Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change:
hbr.org/podcast/2020/1…

* 2020 Beaverbrook Lectures:


* Bibliotherapy/Shelf Healing:
buzzsprout.com/1509671/6580831

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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: Boing Boing (boingboing.net), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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2020 was a shitty year for most things, but it was a banner year for books about fighting monopolies, and for the fight itself.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/07/rev…

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Into the breach: Intelligence failure, complicity, or incompetence?



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Revolutionary Colossus: Mange le roi.



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7 Jan
A timely post in today's @PublicDomainRev brings us the storied history of "The Revolutionary Colossus," a recurring image of "a king-eating colossus" that spread widely and in many forms during the French Revolution.

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