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8 Oct

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Inside: Facebook shouldn't be in charge of how you use Facebook; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/08/unf…

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The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!

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Signed copies:

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One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:

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Facebook shouldn't be in charge of how you use Facebook: Unfollow Everything and the need for (good) tech regulation.

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8 Oct

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The @Facebook whistleblower's testimony was refreshing and frightening by turns, revealing the company's awful internal culture, where product design decisions that benefited its users were sidelined if they were bad for its shareholders.

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The big question now is, what do we do about it? The whistleblower, Frances Haugen rejected the idea that Facebook's power should be diminished; rather, she argued that it should be harnessed - put under the supervision of a new digital regulator.

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8 Oct

Julie Newmar in The Monkees (1966), “Monkees Get Out More Dirt” gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/664479174…

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1986. skinny puppy. dig it. mind: the perpetual intercourse wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/664433142…

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7 Oct

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: DoS a federal agency, then charge for access; "Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/07/mar…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1445902596653260800

DoS a federal agency, then charge for access: Enq carries on a tradition of genuinely terrible startup ideas.

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7 Oct

A key lesson from the #PandoraPapers is that "tax haven" is a gross misnomer. In reality, the distant, finance-blighted treasure islands are not where the dirty money ends up - of course not, there's nothing to buy there.

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The "offshore" sector is like a pinball flipper - plutes and crooks bounce their money off of these tiny, out-of-the-way places, and they fire it back across the ocean, typically through an "onshore-offshore" secrecy haven.

pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avo…

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