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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…

#Pluralistic 1/  Image: fourbyfourblazer (modified) https://flickr.com/photo
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.

3/ Image:  Scripophily.com https://scripophily.net/imperial-rus
#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!

11/ Image: Michael Pregel (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.o
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… 12/
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/
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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).

Inside: Surprise billing's death-spiral may suck in untold patients; Podcasting "Vertically Challenged"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/14/unh…

#Pluralistic 1/ Image: Michael Pregel (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.o
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2/  Image: Michael Pregel (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.
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