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Inside: How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach; and more!

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How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach: Creating a problem does not qualify you to solve the problem.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1379070922594820097

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#10yrsago US Customs’ domain-seizure program punishes the first amendment, leaves alleged pirates largely unscathed torrentfreak.com/us-governments…

#10yrsago Scott Walker gives cushy $85.5K/year government job to major donor’s young, underqualified son web.archive.org/web/2011040604…

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#10yrsago Closing down Borders sign: “No toilets, try Amazon” consumerist.com/2011/04/sign-a…

#10yrsago Recording industry lobbyist appointed head of copyright for European Commission web.archive.org/web/2011040119…

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#10yrsago What is legitimate “newsgathering” and what is “piracy”? zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/why…

#5yrsago Iceland’s Prime Minister asks to dissolve Parliament bbc.com/news/world-eur…

#5yrsago Google reaches into customers’ homes and bricks their gadgets memex.craphound.com/2016/04/05/goo…

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#5yrsago Pollster explains how Chamber of Commerce can steamroller empathetic execs into opposing progressive policies gawker.com/business-execs…

#5yrsago Parent Hacks: illustrated guide is the best kind of parenting book memex.craphound.com/2016/04/05/par…

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#5yrsago The Nameless City: YA graphic novel about diplomacy, hard and soft power, colonialism, bravery, and parkour memex.craphound.com/2016/04/05/the…

#5yrsago Save Netflix! eff.org/deeplinks/2016…

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#5yrsago The TSA spent $1.4M on an app to tell it who gets a random search kevin.burke.dev/kevin/tsa-rand…

#5yrsago Iceland’s Prime Minister says he won’t resign, mass demonstrations gain momentum icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_…

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#5yrsago Panama Papers reveal the tax-avoidance strategies of David Cameron’s father theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/…

#1yrago Landlord accidentally organizes rent strike pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-m…

#1yrago Private equity looting public health in a pandemic pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-m…

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Saturday's threads: Consumerism won't defeat Georgia's Jim Crow; China's antitrust surge; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1378415410043703296

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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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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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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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