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7 Jun, 22 tweets, 16 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "I Quit"; New York to revolutionize antitrust; New York to revolutionize voting; Competition tames ISPs; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/07/fir…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight, I'm helping @TKMiles launch his debut novel RABBITS:

eventbrite.com/e/terry-miles-…

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Podcasting "I Quit": My essay on smoking cessation, doubt, denial, and the worst corporations on Earth.



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New York to revolutionize antitrust: "Consumer Welfare" is bad for your welfare.



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New York to revolutionize voting: The SAFE Act and PAVE Act ride again!



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Competition tames ISPs: How living on the wrong side of the street can cost you thousands of dollars.



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#15yrsago Recording industry: Search-by-artist is “too interactive” web.archive.org/web/2006061221…

#15yrsago Private Infringer: fanfic based on Captain Copyright privateinfringer.blogspot.com

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#10yrsago Macedonia erupts after young man beaten to death by special police in public square web.archive.org/web/2011061013…

#5yrsago Samantha Bee interviews Frank Schaeffer, who helped create the religious right

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#5yrsago Uber loves competition, when it’s the one doing the competing boston.com/news/technolog…

#5yrsago You are not a wallet: complaining considered helpful theguardian.com/technology/201…

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Saturday's threads: Recommendation engines and "lean-back" media; 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:

* 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 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/2021/06/07/fir…

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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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My latest Medium column is "The Rent’s Too Damned High," about the long con of convincing Americans that they will grow prosperous through housing wealth, not labor rights

doctorow.medium.com/the-rents-too-…

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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: Lulu Friesdat (twitter.com/LuluFriesdat), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Matthew Rimmer twitter.com/DrRimmer/.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon; Apple's manorial security; Billionaires don't pay tax; Google and France agree on ad-tech interop; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/08/leo…

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Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness.



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Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly - think different?



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8 Jun
It's (mostly) great that Big Tech monopolies are FINALLY facing regulation.

There are two bad things about monopolies:

I. They cheat their customers and suppliers because they know they're the only game in town, and

II. They use their money to legalize harmful practices.

1/ The Google Chrome Logo with an vintage editorial cartoon of
Here's a Type I example of how Google uses its monopoly power to cheat: Google controls the ad-tech market they rig it in their favor - they represent both buyers and sellers, and they compete with them, and they advantage themselves.

pluralistic.net/2020/11/20/sov…

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But Google's ad-tech stack also has a Type II monopoly abuse: the ad-targeting systems Google sells are extraordinarily, harmfully invasive. They get away with this privacy abuse because they convert the money they get from rigging the market to lobby against privacy laws.

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8 Jun
When Clinton accused Trump of paying no federal taxes, he didn't deny it - rather, he said, "That makes me smart."

He wasn't the first rich sociopath to make that claim. Remember when Leona Helmsley told the press "only little people pay taxes?"

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1/ Agnes Chang's graphic for Propublica depicting the minuscule
Today, @propublica published the first in a series of blockbuster analyses of leaked tax data from America's richest billionaires - some of whom have lobbies for higher taxes on the rich! - showing that the true tax rate for billionaires is 3.4%.

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8 Jun
While #DigitalFeudalism is practiced by many Big Tech companies, Apple pioneered it and is its standard-bearer. The company rightly points out that the world is full of bandits who will steal your data and money and ruin your life, and it holds itself out as your protector.

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Apple is a warlord whose fortress has thick walls and battlements bristling with the most ferocious infosec mercs money can buy.

Surrender your autonomy by moving to Apple's fortress - where they choose your which apps and where you get repairs - and they'll defend you.

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This arrangement (which should really be called "digital manorialism" because feudalism involved providing men-at-arms to the monarch) has the same problem as all benevolent dictatorships: it works well, but fails badly.

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