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2 Jun, 21 tweets, 17 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: NYC's driver-owned Uber alternative; Amazon running scared from arbitration at scale; How the Dutch helped CBS cheat on its taxes; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/02/arb…

#Pluralistic

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This Friday, Jun 4, I'm appearing with @DDayen in the Second Life Book Club!

draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…

And next Monday, Jun 7, I'm helping @TKMiles launch his debut novel RABBITS:

eventbrite.com/e/terry-miles-…

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NYC's driver-owned Uber alternative: Platform cooperativism needs interoperability, though.



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Amazon running scared from arbitration at scale: The right kind of automation.



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How the Dutch helped CBS cheat on its taxes: Onshore-offshore and the IP shell-game.



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#15yrsago JPEG patent invalidated pubpat.org/Chen672Rejecte…

#15yrsago Canadian copyright agency launches kids’ propaganda campaign web.archive.org/web/2006060204…

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#10yrsago The Red Market: book on the criminal trade in orphans, organs, bones, skin, eggs, hair, and other human flesh memex.craphound.com/2011/05/31/the…

#5yrsago Ronald Reagan was Donald Trump, until he was president nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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#5yrsago Every Heart a Doorway: @SeananMcGuire’s subversive, gorgeous tale of rejects from the realms of faerie memex.craphound.com/2016/06/02/eve…

#5yrsago Class action: publishers paid writers “sale” royalties on ebooks whose fine-print says they’re “licensed” copylaw.org/2016/05/simon-…

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#1yrago Big Tech distorts our discourse pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

#1yrago Teardown of an "anti-5g" USB stick pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/hol…

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Yesterday threads: Canadian telco monopolists run the show; Google cheats on location privacy; The antitrust case against Prime; 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:

* In conversation with @DDayen (Second Life Book Club), Jun 4, draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…

* Book launch for @TKMiles's Rabbits (@BookSoup), Jun 7, eventbrite.com/e/terry-miles-…

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Recent appearances:

* Get Your News On With Ron/@RonPlacone:


* Seize the Means of Computation, Consensus 2021
coindesk.com/cory-doctorow-…

* How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (@RyersonCFE):
cfe.ryerson.ca/key-resources/…

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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 @MCRockefeller. 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/2021/06/02/arb…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

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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: Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Efficiency is very inefficient; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/03/jit…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow, Jun 4, I'm appearing with @ddayen in the Second Life Book Club!

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And next Monday, Jun 7, I'm helping @tkmiles launch his debut novel RABBITS:

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