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20 Apr, 19 tweets, 14 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Real penalties for covid evicters; McDonald's corporate wages war on ice-cream hackers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/eut…

#Pluralistic

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I'm appearing at the FITC conference this morning!

* Panel: "Intersection: Seeing Our Failures from the Future"
fitc.ca/presentation/i…

* Keynote: "Interop: Self-Determination vs. Dystopia"
fitc.ca/presentation/i…

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Real penalties for covid evicters: The CFPB is set to euthanize some rentiers - and their lawyers.



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McDonald's corporate wages war on ice-cream hackers: All the pasteurization in the world won't detoxify the mix of franchise agreements and rent-extraction.



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#10yrsago ACLU to Michigan cops: stop searching mobile phones during traffic stops popularmechanics.com/technology/gad…

#10yrsago Before 1988 Olympics, South Korea sent ‘vagrants’ to camps where rape and murder were routine web.archive.org/web/2016042023…

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#5yrsago Colorado school district wants to arm security staff with military-style rifles csmonitor.com/USA/2016/0419/…

#5yrsago UK Chancellor exempts families of “Politically Exposed Persons” from money laundering scrutiny nakedcapitalism.com/2016/04/uks-os…

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#5yrsago Volkswagen’s internal Dieselgate probe stuck because the company used code-words for its cheat software bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#1yrago 94.5% of "small business" money went to giant corporations pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/gre…

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#1yrago Denmark: no bailouts for companies headquartered in tax havens pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/gre…

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Yesterday's threads: The G(AN)-8; Facebook's tonsils; Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism; 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:

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

* Book launch for Bruce Sterling's Robot Artists & Black Swans (Book People), Apr 27, bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…

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Recent appearances:

* Right to Repair, Monopolies, and Solarpunk


* The surveillance state, digital monopolies, and 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/2021/04/20/eut…

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If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🧉". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list

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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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The "lawful interception" industry is a hive of scum and villainy: these are powerful, wildly profitable companies who search out defects in widely used software, then weaponize them and sell them to the world's most brutal dictators and death squads.

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As the big US banks tout their record-smashing financial results for the pandemic lockdown era, it's easy to assume that all those profits came as a result of Trump and McConnell's big-business bailout, but that's only part of the story.

1/ Expulsion of the merchants ...
As @alex_sammon writes for @TheProspect, 12 of the 15 largest US banks owe a substantial fraction of their pandemic profits to overdraft fees - fees assessed against the poorest and most vulnerable bank customers.

prospect.org/economy/big-ba…

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There's no justifiable rationale for a person to be worth billions: is Jeff Bezos's social value really 14,285,714 times that of his median factory worker?

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21 Apr
Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: The Observatory of Anonymity; Hawley and Taylor Greene faked their donor-surge; What's wrong with EU's trustbusters; Some thoughts on GWB's call for truth in politics; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/21/re-…

#Pluralistic

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The Observatory of Anonymity: You are far less of a haystack-needle than you think.



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Hawley and Taylor Greene faked their donor-surge: Juking stats for fun, fortune, and fame.



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Some reflections on former President George W Bush's remarks on the Today Show, that "What's really troubling is how much misinformation there is and the capacity of people to spread all kinds of untruth.

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