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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Mafia hires good accountants; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/02/01/col…

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The Mafia hires good accountants: Honest cheaters enable the mob.

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#15yrsago Schoolkids “passing notes” by commenting on random blog-posts web.archive.org/web/2007020304…

#15yrsago 9/11 Commission Report hobbled by #DRM web.archive.org/web/2007020401… 3/
#10yrsago Too Big to Know: @dweinberger explains how knowledge works in the Internet age memex.craphound.com/2012/02/01/too…

#10yrsago @WSJ publishes actual climate scientists’ letter on climate science wsj.com/articles/SB100… 4/
#10yrsago US trade rep and hotel caught lying about confidentiality of secret #ACTA meeting in Hollywood techdirt.com/articles/20120…

#5yrsago Sean Spicer defends handcuffing a 5-year-old American boy for hours at an airport immigration checkpoint independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… 5/
#5yrsago Trump’s war on science, a chronology (Week 1) scienceblogs.com/confessions/20…

#5yrsago Suspecting arson, cops subpoena homeowner’s pacemaker logs, then charge him with multiple felonies csoonline.com/article/316274… 6/
#5yrsago Federal judge orders emergency injunction and restraining order ending Trump’s #muslimban arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#1yrago Unidirectional entryism pluralistic.net/2021/02/01/din…

#1yrago The good news about vaccination bad news pluralistic.net/2021/02/01/din… 7/
Yesterday's threads: Grappling with Big Wrestling; Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down; 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:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 9/
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… 10/
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/ 11/
Upcoming appearances:

* @boskonenews 59 (Feb 18-20)
boskone.org/program/schedu…

* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical SF, 1950 to 1985 (@CityLightsBooks), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero…

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com 12/
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… 14/
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/2022/02/01/col… 15/
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. 16/
My latest @Medium column is "The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties"

doctorow.medium.com/the-inevitabil… 17/
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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… 19/
Today's top sources: @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 20/

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: To fight inflation, fight monopolies; How noncompetes shackle workers to dead-end jobs; Agricultural right to repair law is a no-brainer; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its…

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To fight inflation, fight monopolies: Cartels raise prices using supply chain and "generous" benefits as cover for price-gouging.

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Today, the company is rotten to the core. Despite skyrocketing profits, the company has continued to grind down its workers, sparking a strike by all 10,000 of its workers. 3/
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It's a remarkable, spontaneous, uncoordinated uprising that sees Alice quitting her job and Bob quitting his, and then Alice getting Bob's old job at a better wage, and Bob getting Alice's old job at a better wage, too. 2/
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But as great as the Great Resignation is, it could be greater. 3/
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The majority of the public blames #inflation on price-gouging. That's not surprising, because the CEOs of monopolistic companies keep boasting about their record profits even as they raise prices. 1/ A caricature of a top-hatte...
If a company raises prices *and* margins, then we don't have an "inflation" problem, we have a price-fixing problem.

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