Last summer, @OZM published my book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM - an antimonopoly critique of Big Tech that's skeptical of its self-serving claims to have perfected digital manipulation and looks to monopoly to explain our weird discourse.
Last month, Onezero published the book between covers, with an all-new additional chapter. It's a beautiful little book, perfect for people whose screen-burned eyes seek rest in a physical object.
Yesterday, @DarkDel, my local bookseller, got its shipment of the book, and I popped in and signed 25 of them. You can order a signed copy here (with a personalized inscription, if you'd like!):
If you'd like an epub/mobi/PDF of the book, it's DRM-free in all the ebook stores - and you can also buy it direct from my store (that way I get the 30% retail share that Amazon or whomever would skim):
If you'd like to read or share this thread as a single, unrolled blog post, here's a permalink on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free, free-to-read site:
On Wednesday, @zeynep and I are delivering the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Contemporary Political Struggle: Social Movements, Social Surveillance, Social Media: ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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What Democrats need to do: Don't just stand there, govern.
This week on my podcast, part two of the spoken-word version of "Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability," a major new white-paper that Bennett Cyphers and I co-authored for @EFF.
It’s a paper that tries to resolve the tension between demanding that tech platforms gather, retain and mine less of our data, and the demand that platforms allow alternatives (nonprofits, co-ops, tinkerers, startups) to connect with their services.
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I read the second portion of it this week – about 30 minutes' worth – and I'll finish it next week. If you don't want to wait, you can dive in with the written version straightaway:
Automated manufacturing is a dream as old as the Shoemaker and the Elves, a nightmare as old as the Sorcerer's Apprentice. But the (delightful) science fiction dreams about automated manufacturing so often fall short of the reality.
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Not always, though! @MITCSAIL researchers' "Laserfactory" demo at this year's @sig_chi is a marvel straight out of a novel I wish I'd written:
The demo uses a modified laser-cutter to print, assemble and finish a working drone that then flies off the build plate, with only the tiniest human interventions.
Although a significant majority of Americans support "progressive" policies, the US electoral equilibrium is forever balanced on a knife-edge between GOP and Democratic victories. That's not merely a result of gerrymandering and voter-suppression, either.
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US elections are decided by mobilizing habitual nonvoters, who primarily stay home because they don't believe change is possible.
That's not an unreasonable position in a country where the minimum wage and care deductions have been frozen since the 80s.
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The Democrats control the White House, the Congress and the Senate. They have an opportunity not seen since 2008 - when Obama threw away this hard-won opportunity, on the eve of a grave economic crisis created and exacerbated by ignoring progressive values and policies.
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