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Inside: AT&T will lay off thousands more; Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse; Sacklers to use Purdue bankruptcy to escape justice; AI has a GIGO problem; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/03/31/vac…

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AT&T will lay off thousands more: After promising that Trump's $20B tax-break would create jobs.



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Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse: A vaccine for the Global South.



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Sacklers to use Purdue bankruptcy to escape justice: Crime pays.



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AI has a GIGO problem: Bias-laundering at mass scale.



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#5yrsago Qatar’s World Cup stadium is being built by modern slaves bbc.com/news/world-mid…

#1yrago Monopolists stole your respirator pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…

#1yrago Amazon fires walkout organizer pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…

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#1yrsago Trump admits voter suppression pluralistic.net/2020/03/31/rea…

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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."

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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:

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Signed copies here:
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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* All the Teachable Things I Know About Writing, Apr 13, changinghands.com/event/april202…

* Interop: Self-Determination vs Dystopia (FITC), Apr 19-21, fitc.ca/presentation/i…

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Recent appearances:

* Right to Repair, Monopolies, and Solarpunk


* The surveillance state, digital monopolies, and why we should be worried (Podsongs)
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* Conspiracy Theories (Utopian Horizons):
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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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