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Mar 15, 2022 22 tweets 18 min read Read on X
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Fight inflation with a windfall profits tax; Russian "ESG" investments were always about financing invasions and murder; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/15/san…

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Fight inflation with a windfall profits tax: Step one: tar. Step two: ???

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Russian "ESG" investments were always about financing invasions and murder: Enjoy your rouble-denominated coupons, assholes.

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#15yrsago Allen Ginsberg’s “Put Down Your Cigarette Rag”

#10yrsago America’s 55-hour work weeks ruin workers’ lives and don’t produce extra value for employers salon.com/2012/03/14/bri… 4/
#10yrsago Bunnie Huang’s open Geiger counter: design notes and reference bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2218

#5yrsago Uber uses its in-app podcasts to broadcast anti-union messages to drivers theverge.com/2017/3/14/1491…

#5yrsago In defense of left-wing space utopias currentaffairs.org/2017/03/the-re… 5/
#5yrsago What’s the difference between a CEO and a president? medium.com/newco/youre-fi…

#5yrsago In a wide-ranging interview, Edward @Snowden offers surveillance advice to Trump theintercept.com/2017/03/15/int… 6/
#5yrsago Podcast: how to secure software by caring about humans, not security oreilly.com/content/scout-…

#5yrsago CBP conducted more device searches at the border in Feb than in all of 2015 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 7/
#5yrsago Flint official punished for water crisis: she must write an apology letter, will not serve time nakedcapitalism.com/2017/03/flint-…

#5yrsago Wishbone breaks: massive leak of popular survey site reveals millions of teens’ information vice.com/en/article/wnk… 8/
#1yrago STREAMLINER: Vantablack noir French hotrod comics for the win pluralistic.net/2021/03/15/fre…

#1yrago Free markets: My latest @Locusmag column on rent-seeking and audiobooks pluralistic.net/2021/03/15/fre… 9/
#1yrago Making Hay: My new "Lost Cause" story in MIT @TechReview's "Make Shift" pluralistic.net/2021/03/15/fre… 10/
Yesterday's threads: Surprise billing's death-spiral may suck in untold patients; Podcasting "Vertically Challenged"; 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:
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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:

* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (@News_CRA/Brussels), Mar 31
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* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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Recent appearances:

* Dangerous Visions: False Dawns and Wandergrounds - Dystopia, Then and Now


* Safety Orange (@TWIT)
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* Seize the Means of Computation (Boston Computation Club)
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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… 17/
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/2022/03/15/san… 18/
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. 19/
My latest @Medium column is: "The Byzantine Premium: The contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy":

doctorow.medium.com/the-byzantine-… 20/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🪖". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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Inside: AI and the fatfinger economy; and more!

Archived at:

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in NEW ZEALAND at UNITY BOOKS in WELLINGTON TODAY (May 3, 3PM):

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More tour dates (PDX, Pittsburgh, London, Manchester) here:

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AI and the fatfinger economy: Every slip of the finger in money in the bank.



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Patrick "patio11" McKenzie is a fantastic explainer, the kind of person who breaks topics down in ways that stay with you, and creep into your understanding of other subjects, too. Take his 2022 essay, "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero":



1/ bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optima…A rainforest in Chiapas, green and intergrown.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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It's a very well-argued piece, and here's the nut of it:

> The marginal return of permitting fraud against you is plausibly greater than zero, and therefore, you should welcome greater than zero fraud.

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Apr 22
Astrophysicist Adam Becker knows a bit about science and tech - enough to show, in his book *More Everything Forever* that claims tech bros make about space colonies, mind uploading, and other skiffy subjects are nonsense dressed up as prediction:



1/ hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-be…The Basic Books cover for Adam Becker's 'More Everything Faster.'
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Becker investigates the personalities, the ideologies, the coalitions, the histories, and crucially, the *grifts* behind various science fictional pursuits.

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Apr 21
Have you heard that tariffs are going to drive prices up? Me too. There's a good reason we're hearing a lot of talk about tariffs prices: tariffs are a tax that is ultimately paid by consumers.

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Trump plans to raise $6t in tariffs, making them the largest tax increase in US history:



But that $6t is just for starters.

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Apr 18
It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company *intended* to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors.

1/ A naked, sexless pull-string talking doll with a speaker grille set into its chest. It has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar, and a pull string extending from its back. A hand - again, from a Zuckerberg metaverse avatar - is pulling back the string. The doll towers over a courtroom.
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It's a lot easier to prove *what* a corporation did than it is to prove *why* they did it. What am I, a mind-reader? But imagine for a second that the corporation in the dock is a global multinational.

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Apr 15
A lawsuit filed in February accuses Tesla of remotely altering odometer values on failure-prone cars, in a bid to push these lemons beyond the 50,000 mile warranty limit:



1/ thestreet.com/automotive/tes…A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene.   Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified)...
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The suit was filed by a California driver who bought a used Tesla with 36,772 miles on it. The car's suspension kept failing, necessitating multiple servicings.

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