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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How English libel law enables Russian kleptocrats; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/04/lon…

#Pluralistic 1/ An English five pound note; the Queen's mouth has been erase
Today (Mar 4) at 12h PT, I'm giving a keynote called Seize the Means of Computation at Poland's @StowAvangarda convention:

konline.ava.waw.pl/konline 2/
How English libel law enables Russian kleptocrats: Tories and Putin's cronies are both impedence-matched and comorbid. 3/
#20yrsago I just took a job with @EFF! web.archive.org/web/2002040322…

#15yrsago @RIAA student extortion site “looks forward to future business” web.archive.org/web/2007040223…

#15yrsago US detains 9-year-old Canadian web.archive.org/web/2007030407… 5/
#15yrsago @Bruces: Cyber-greens are here washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…

#10yrsago China Mieville’s London: the (authentic) city and the (banks and surveillance) city nytimes.com/2012/03/04/mag… 6/
#5yrsago Snakisms: 22 philosophies expounded through the game of Snake pippinbarr.github.io/SNAKISMS/

#5yrsago Bavarian intelligence agency says Scientologists secretly took over one of the world’s top art galleries dw.com/en/scientologi… 7/
Wednesday's threads: Defi and Shadow Banking 2.0; and more!

8/  Image: Derrich (modified): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wi
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:

* Seize the Means of Computation, Konline Poland, Mar 4
konline.ava.waw.pl/konline

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com 12/
Recent appearances:

* The Policy Implications of Web3 (@StanfordCyber)


* Big Tech & Surveillance Capitalism (@shaunattwood):


* Bringing Back Luddites (@OhNoPodcast)
ohnopodcast.com/investigations… 13/
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/2022/03/04/lon… 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: "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local: A Chance for Individuals to Make a Difference"

doctorow.medium.com/all-broadband-… 17/
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Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 18/
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: @jjn1 (memex.naughtons.org). 20/

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Mar 4
Given the Current Circumstances, now is a good time to revisit the special relationship between UK elites - lawyers, estate agents, legislators - and Russian oligarchs, which was brilliantly documented in a Dec 2021 report from @chathamhouse:

chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kl… 1/ An English five pound note; the Queen's mouth has been erase
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I wrote about this in early January, drawing a comparison between the manifest compatibility between UK elites - including the royals and their Tory cheerleaders - and Russia's richest criminals and "The Klept" of @greatdismal's *Peripheral* novels:

pluralistic.net/2022/01/07/the… 3/
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Mar 2
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Defi and Shadow Banking 2.0; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/02/sha…

#Pluralistic 1/ Image: Derrich (modified): ...
This Friday (Mar 4), I'm giving a keynote called Seize the Means of Computation at Poland's @StowAvangarda convention:

konline.ava.waw.pl/konline 2/
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Mar 2
14 year ago, the world's financial system came to the brink of collapse. Central banks scrambled to react. Businesses shuttered. People lost their homes. Many governments fell. Faith in our institutions shattered. The Occupy movement was launched. So was Bitcoin. 1/ A giant Bitcoin casts an ominous shadow over a traditional,
What brought on the Great Financial Crisis? The "shadow banking system" - a system of unregulated financial activities that are just like their regulated cousins, except that they're, well, *unregulated*. 2/
The GFC was precipitated by "financial innovation": new tricks that allowed traditional financial activities to take place while evading the controls instituted to head off the kinds of systemic collapses that plagued nations for centuries. 3/
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How "hollowed" hotels are destroying worker rights; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/01/rei…

#Pluralistic 1/  Image: SuSanA Secretariat (modified) https://www.flickr.com
This Friday (Mar 4), I'm giving a keynote called Seize the Means of Computation at Poland's @StowAvangarda convention:

konline.ava.waw.pl/konline 2/
How "hollowed" hotels are destroying worker rights: REITs aren't just for money laundering.

3/  Image: SuSanA Secretariat (modified) https://www.flickr.com
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Mar 1
The Real Estate Investment Trust is (#REIT) a sixties-era tax shelter designed to allow mom-and-pop investors to buy into income properties. REITs are exempt from corporate tax, but they're also prohibited from managing the buildings they own. 1/ A vintage postcard depictin...
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Banning REITs from management roles was supposed to scare off rich people looking for a tax break and keep REITs firmly in the realm of the "little guy." 3/
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