Thread by @doctorow

Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: The awesome destructive power of billionaires; Banks made bank on covid overdrafts; Moxie hacks Cellebrite; Fighting FLoC compatible with fighting monopoly; EFF sues Proctorio; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/iho…

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The awesome destructive power of a billionaire: Ihor Kolomoisky destroyed lives in the midwest, Ukraine, and elsewhere.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1385239273599684609

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Banks made bank on covid overdraft charges: Charing the poorest people in America a 3,500% APR.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1385248173019471874

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Moxie hacks Cellebrite: Aesthetically pleasing files versus strict input-checking.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1385254833502900226

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Fighting FLoC is compatible with fighting monopoly: Not all competition is good competition.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1385259827799023619

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EFF sues Proctorio over copyfraud: The sleaze never stops.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1385268397923917824

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#15yrsago RIAA sues family that doesn’t own a PC knac.com/article.asp?Ar…

#1yrago Disney heiress slams top execs' compensation pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/fil…

#1yrago Unmasking the registrants of the "reopen" websites pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/fil…

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#1yrago Web-wide copyright filters would be a disaster pluralistic.net/2020/04/22/fil…

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Yesterday's threads: 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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1384949505645322242

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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:

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

* Seize the Means of Computation, Ryerson Centre for Free Expression, May 19, cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

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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):
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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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