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Inside: Green investing is a fraud; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/03/24/gre…

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Tonight, I'm participating in a Clarion Writing Workshop panel called "Balancing Worldbuilding and Narrative," with Karen Osborne and Kali Wallace

ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Green investing is a fraud: ESGs and other delusions.



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#20yrsago The Gen-X Guide to Disneyland web.archive.org/web/2002021902…

#10yrsago James Gleick’s tour-de-force: The Information, a natural history of information theory memex.craphound.com/2011/03/24/jam…

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#10yrsago Man who wants to patent genome gets legal threat for embedding James Joyce quote in artificial lifeform forbes.com/sites/davidewa…

#5yrsago Vulnerability in recorders used by 70+ manufacturers’ CCTV systems has been known since 2014 kerneronsec.com/2016/02/remote…

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#1yrago Quarantine reveals the falsity of the automation crisis pluralistic.net/2020/03/24/gra…

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Yesterday's threads: Solar futures and futuristic fellowships; FCC wants broadband complaints; Tories pass Grenfell costs onto tenants; 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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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…

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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:

* Balancing Worldbuilding and Narrative (with Karen Osborne and Kali Wallace), Mar 24, ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* Launch for Brian David Johnson's Future You (Powell's Books), Mar 30, zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Recent appearances:

* Right to Repair, Monopolies, & Solarpunk


* The surveillance state, digital monopolies, * why we should be worried (Podsongs)
anchor.fm/podsongs/episo…

* Conspiracy Theories (Utopian Horizons):
soundcloud.com/utopianhorizon…

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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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/03/24/gre…

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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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gijn.org/2021/03/25/a-n…

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That's why Facebook and Youtube flipped and endorsed the EU plan to mandate hundreds of millions of euros' worth of copyright filters in 2019.

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