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Inside: Risk compensation considered harmful; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/10/elf…

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Risk compensation considered harmful: HPV vaccines, N95s, seatbelts, helmets and the Chicago Boys.

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#10yrago Why we get the future of tech wrong

#10yrsago Understanding McDonald’s as a commodities broker with a restaurant sideline: the McRib theawl.com/2011/11/a-cons… 3/
#10yrsago Warner Bros admits it sends takedown notices for files it hasn’t seen and doesn’t own arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago French court sends EDF execs to jail for hacking, spying on Greenpeace bbc.com/news/science-e… 4/
#5yrsago Clinton’s data-driven “ground game” sucked in exactly the same way “targeted ads” suck, for the same reason web.archive.org/web/2016111108…

#5yrsago Trump Administration: a climate denier for the EPA, a Goldman-Sachs banker for Treasury politico.com/story/2016/11/… 5/
Yesterday's threads: Stockholm's war on interoperability; and more!

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

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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:

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Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 9/
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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Anti-Dystopian Congress (@GoetheInstitut), Nov 10-12
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* Move Fast and Fix Things (@AaronSwartzDay), Nov 13
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* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-@USTPC), Nov 15
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Upcoming appearances:

* Launch for @happierman and @J9andIf's "You Feel It Just Below the Ribs" (@Keplers), Nov 18
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* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego @Comic_Con), Nov 28
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Recent appearances:

* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):


* Making Money (#DIDiscworld)
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* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress
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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… 15/
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My latest @Medium column is "Bait and Switch: Capitalism’s Shell Game: From Robert Bork to John Deere" 17/
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