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Inside: Teamsters transformed; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/19/hof…

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Teamsters transformed: Militant labor is strong labor.

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#20yrsago Walt Disney World gets wifi web.archive.org/web/2002020509…

#5yrsago The Snoopers Charter is now law in the UK: “extreme surveillance” rules the land theguardian.com/world/2016/nov… 3/
#5yrsago When Mike Pence came to Hamilton, the cast added a special afterword, just for him nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/…

#1yrago Tyson execs bet on covid spread in unsafe plant pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/dis…</a.

#1yrago Disney stiffs writer pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/dis… 4/
Yesterday's threads: This is your Congress on drugs; Harvard is full of rich, white low-achievers; 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:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 7/
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:

* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego @Comic_Con), Nov 28
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* @Intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
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Recent appearances:

* Move Fast and Fix Things (@AaronSwartzDay)


* @BridgeTales:
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* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):
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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… 11/
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/2021/11/19/hof… 12/
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 Jam To-Day: Liberating Big Tech's hostages on day one"

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I'm going overseas for work on Dec 7, which means time to order signed/personalized copies of my books from @darkdel is running out!

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You can't turn around these days without bumping into scary inflation talk, and with reason: asset bubbles, supply chain shocks and energy geopolitics are on their way to wiping out the wage gains eked out by low-waged workers during the pandemic's labor shortage. 1/ A WWI-era anti-profiteering editorial cartoon featuring an o
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The underlying message of this scare-talk is that we've been too generous with "essential workers," by allowing them to inch a little closer to a living wage, and now it's time to roll that back, for their own good. 3/
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It's one (true) thing to say that American union membership is down - that's a quantifiable, objective proposition. It's another to say that American unions are weak - and contrariwise, that unions are getting stronger. That's a lot more abstract and harder to pin down. 1/ A 1952 Teamsters Union card in the name of Harvey W Harper.
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But here's a concrete version of what it means for a union to be weak, and for it to be getting stronger: the Teamsters election, hereclutch of do-nothing, sellout lifers were ousted from their cushy offices by militant challengers who made specific, meaningful promises. 3/
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Inside: This is your Congress on drugs; Harvard is full of rich, white low-achievers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/18/bip…

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This is your Congress on drugs: Corruption kills.

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Harvard is a very, very selective school. Only 3.43% of applicants get in. But that's not the whole story. Writing in @TheGuardian, Tayo Bero says that 43% of the white student body was admitted on criteria other than merit.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 1/ The Harvard crest with a pair of crossed silver spoons benea
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