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8 Jul, 23 tweets, 20 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Indonesia's gig work tech resistance; Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuy…

#Pluralistic

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This Saturday, July 10, I'm helping @unshavedmouse launch his debut novel,"When the Sparrow Falls" at an event with @MystGalaxyBooks:
mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

My review:
pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/bas…

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Indonesia's gig work tech resistance: Tuyul apps and the IT of the Road.



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Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card: Here's what to do about it.



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#15yrsago Ben Rosenbaum’s “Ant King” story under CC license benjaminrosenbaum.com/stories/the.an…

#15yrsago Song inspired by Ted Stevens’ “Internet is a series of tubes” myspace.com/tedstevensfanc…

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#10yrsago Half of US social program recipients believe they “have not used a government social program” cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#10yrsago Creative License: how the hell did sampling get so screwed up and what the hell do we do about it? memex.craphound.com/2011/07/08/cre…

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#5yrsago Tiffin: a boardgame based on Mumbai’s miraculous lunch-delivery network memex.craphound.com/2016/07/08/tif…

#5yrsago William Gibson’s Archangel: intricate military sf, mercilessly optimized for comics memex.craphound.com/2016/07/08/wil…

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#5yrsago One line in a federal law from 1866 makes it basically impossible to prosecute killer cops theintercept.com/2016/07/07/one…

#5yrsago Why did some of the richest, most powerful people in the UK support Brexit? jacobinmag.com/2016/07/brexit…

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#5yrsago Tenant farmers: how “smart” agricultural equipment siphons off farmers’ crop and soil data techcrunch.com/2016/07/06/the…

#5yrsago As browsers decline in relevance, they’re becoming DRM timebombs thetech.com/2016/07/06/ele…

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#5yrsago NYC’s sloppy records gave $59.2M in tax breaks to dead people observer.com/2016/07/city-g…

#1yrago The awful stupidity of measuring engineers' productivity pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/abs…

#1yrago The rotten culture of the rich pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/abs…

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#1yrago EY helped 'Ndrangheta sell mafia bonds pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/abs…

#1yrago Hank Green's "A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor" pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/abs…

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Yesterday's threads: Technological self-determination; Biden delivers Right to Repair via executive order; Comic book store files comic-book lawsuit; 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), Jul 10, mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

* Project Abraham book club (to benefit Yezidi refugees):
d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/truthmustbetol…

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Recent appearances:

* The Bitcoin Podcast:
thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-po…

* The Rent's Too Damned High, @MacroCheese:
realprogressives.org/podcast_episod…

* 3D Printing Sci-Fi, 3DPOD:
3dprint.com/282547/3dpod-e…

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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 @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/2021/07/08/tuy…

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

My latest Medium column is "Self Publishing," about the consolidation in publishing and what to do about it

doctorow.medium.com/self-publishin…

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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: @MattKatz (twitter.com/MattKatz).

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8 Jul
When Microsoft CEO (and Linux archnemesis) @Steven_Ballmer retired and bought the @LAClippers, it was easy to assume that the billionaire was engaged in a jolly or a folly, buying a major league sports team as a folly.

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Gojek is a $10B Indonesian "super app" that combines "Postmates, Apple Pay, Venmo, and Uber" serviced by an army of ojol - drivers - who are subjected to all the high-handed algorithmic horrors that gig workers everywhere suffer through.

vice.com/en/article/7kv…

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But Indonesian ojol aren't helpless before their apps; a legion of toolsmiths produce, share, sell and support "#tuyul apps" named for "a child-like spirit in Indonesian folklore that helps his human master earn money by stealing," which modify the Gojek app.

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7 Jul
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Technological self-determination; Biden delivers Right to Repair via executive order; Comic book store files comic-book lawsuit; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/07/ins…

#Pluralistic

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Next Saturday, July 10, I'm helping @unshavedmouse launch his debut novel,"When the Sparrow Falls" at an event with @MystGalaxyBooks:
mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

My review:
pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/bas…

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Technological self-determination: Competition is a means, not an end.



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One of the great sf/comics/collectibles stores in America is Houston's @3rdPlanetOnline. One of the worst-managed hotels in America is the Crowne Plaza River Oaks, who happen to be Third Planet's next door neighbors.

1/ A frame from the comic-book brief of Third World Comics.
The Crowne Plaza River Oaks is home to routine "physical assault, sexual assault, public disturbances, criminal mischief, burgalry, theft and other criminal activities," which are "permitted to occur on hotel premises."

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Among the many downsides of owning the business next to this hotel? They permit guests and residents to congregate on the fire escape and hurl garbage ("ceramic mugs, plates, silverware, bottles...cinderblocks, luggage racks and ladders") into Third Planet's roof.

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7 Jul
#RightToRepair is a no-brainer. You - not manufacturers - should have the right to decide whom you trust to fix your stuff, even (especially) when that stuff is "smart" and an unscrupulous repair could create unquantifiable "cyber-risk."

1/ A vintage John Deere tractor whose wheel hubs have been repl
And yet...DOZENS of state #R2R bills were defeated in 2018, thanks to an unholy coalition of Big Ag, Big Tech, and consumer electronics monopolists like @WahlGrooming. That supervillain gang reassembled to fight and kill still more bills in 2020/1.

pluralistic.net/2021/05/26/nix…

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It's part of the long trend in which all levels of government make policy based on what serves the interests of the rich and powerful, not the people they serve.

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