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Inside: Podcasting "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local"; and more!

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Podcasting "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local": A chance for individuals to make a difference.

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#20yrsago Heartbreaking naivete gets techsupport worker fired web.archive.org/web/2005011210…

#15yrsago Open letter to Steve Jobs: put your DRM where your mouth is defectivebydesign.org/actions/open_l…

#10yrsago Huxley’s fan-letter to Orwell for Nineteen Eighty-Four lettersofnote.com/2012/03/06/198… 3/

#10yrsago More evidence that financial speculators drive crazy food-price swings wired.com/2012/03/specul…

#5yrsago 40% of households in Philadelphia can’t pay their water bill nakedcapitalism.com/2017/03/americ… 4/

#5yrsago Porno-copyright troll behind “Prenda Law” pleads guilty to everything arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 5/

Yesterday's threads: Student debt strike called for May 1

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Hey Look At This:

* BBC now a Tor hidden service bbc.com/news/technolog… (h/t @dangillmor)

* Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics… (h/t @jstruan)

* NYT Tech Workers Vote to Certify Union nytimes.com/2022/03/03/bus… (h/t @slashddot) 7/

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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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* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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Recent appearances:

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* Seize the Means of Computation (Boston Computation Club)

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* Policy Implications of Web3 (@StanfordCyber)
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