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27 Jun, 17 tweets, 13 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: ISP announces 86% slowdown "in line with others"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/27/imm…

#Pluralistic

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ISP announces 86% slowdown "in line with others": Altice wins the race to the bottom.



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#10yrsago Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice alleged to have choked liberal colleague web.archive.org/web/2011070121…

#10yrsago RIP: editor/anthologist Martin Greenberg tor.com/2011/06/27/edi…

#5yrsago Supreme Court strikes down Texas abortion law nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…

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#5yrsago Snowden publicly condemns Russia’s proposed surveillance law theguardian.com/world/2016/jun…

#5yrsago Shrill: Lindy West’s amazing, laugh-aloud memoir about fatness, abortion, trolls and rape-jokes memex.craphound.com/2016/06/27/shr…

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#1yrago Snowden on tech's Oppenheimers pluralistic.net/2020/06/27/bel…

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Yesterday's threads: The Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance; How Peter Thiel gamed the Roth IRA for tax-free billions; New York City's 100 worst landlords; 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:

* Launch for @UnshavedMouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks), mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

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Recent appearances:

* Big Tech Fix, Feet to the Fire podcast:
feet2fire.net/e/a-bigtech-re…

* The ACCESS Act, @ConsumerReports:
consumerreports.org/digital-rights…

* Raging Chicken @RCpress podcast:
rcpress.podbean.com/e/out-dcoup-li…

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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/2021/06/27/imm…

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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.

My latest Medium column is "The EU, tech trustbusting and trade-wars": doctorow.medium.com/the-eu-tech-tr…)

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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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28 Jun
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Qualia"; Lazy Congress only schedules 9 days' work this summer; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/28/dub…

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Podcasting "Qualia": My column on quant-bias, antitrust, drug policy and epidemiology.



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Lazy Congress only schedules 9 days' work this summer: We're not paying you to party on donors' yachts.



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28 Jun
Say what you will about Congressional partisan divisions, there's one area of unity: the need for self-care.

That's why the House voted to give itself only *9 days* of work between Jul 2 and Sept 19 (the Senate's workaholics will put in 11 days' work out of 75 summer days).

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I get it. It's been a tough 18 months. Who ISN'T tired?

But Congress ALREADY works a three-day week (the remaining two days are spent "dialing for dollars," begging rich people for money in exchange for making policy that benefits the wealthy).

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But Congress has work to do - work like passing the PRO Act, which will help everyday workers win some of the labor rights that Congress takes for granted, like paid vacations, health benefits, and a decent pension.

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28 Jun
This week on my podcast, I read "Qualia," my May, 2021 @locusmag column about quantitative bias, epidemiology, antitrust and drug policy. It's a timely piece, given the six historic antitrust laws that passed the House Judiciary Committee last week:

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The most obvious lesson comes from the failure of exposure notification apps, which were supposed to take the place of "shoe-leather" contact tracing, wherein a public health workers establish personal rapport with infected people to help identify others who might be at risk.

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The surging anti-monopoly movement has been greeted with skepticism from the left, some of whom suspect the whole thing is merely fetishizing competition for its own sake, irrespective of whether competing businesses produce value for their workers, communities and customers.

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There's certainly an element of the economic world that sees competition and market forces as a cure-all, jumping through farcical hoops to push pro-competitive policies to the exclusion of safety, quality and labor regulation.

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But sometimes, competition really DOES solve problems - and even more often, a LACK of competition CREATES problems.

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