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Jun 10 23 tweets 18 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Monopolists want to create human inkjet printers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/06/10/loo…

#Pluralistic 1/ A package of HP inkjet ink;...
Next week (Jun 15/16) I'm speaking in #London at the CMAgovUK Data Technology and Analytics conference

eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-tec… 2/
Monopolists want to create human inkjet printers: The war on your pancreas continues.

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Hey look at this

* @SenWarren's Congressional fundraiser for trustbuster/@aaronsw ally @DavidSegalRI secure.actblue.com/donate/dscanti…

* Banana-based random-number generator valerionappi.it/brng-en/

* @ProfKateJudge's amazing anti-middleman book 'Direct' bookshop.org/books/direct-t… 4/ Image
#10yrsago Women beat 18-34 men for tech adoption and purchasing power theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

#10yrsago Internet freedom activists arrested/detained after Internet freedom conferences slate.com/technology/201… 5/ Image
#10yrsago Farcical wishlist from Canada’s copyright/pharma lobby: warrantless search, Canadian SOPA, jail time for downloaders, public subsidy of copyright enforcement web.archive.org/web/2012061016… 6/ Image
#5yrsago Chinese Apple employees and contractors sold users’ private data for as little as $1.50 hongkongfp.com/2017/06/08/chi…

#5yrsago “Do you want Catalonia to be an independent country in the form of a republic?” theguardian.com/world/2017/jun… 7/ Image
#5yrsago How @EFF cracked printers’ “hidden dots” code in 2005

#1yrago Urban broadband deserts: Digital redlining is a policy, not an accident pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/fli… 8/ Image
#1yrago A denialism taxonomy: FLICC (fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking, conspiracy theories) pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/fli… 9/ Image
#1yrago Prisoners' Inventions: The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation pluralistic.net/2021/06/09/kin… 10/
Wednesday's threads: Powered wheelchairs and Right to Repair; 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… 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:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 13/ ImageImage
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/ 14/
Upcoming appearances:

* @CMAgovUK Data Technology/Analytics (London), Jun 15-16
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-tec…

* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 24
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Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event…

* Privacy is the New Celebrity
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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/ Image
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/2022/06/10/loo… 18/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com. 19/
My latest @Medium column is "Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism"

doctorow.medium.com/regulatory-cap… 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!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 21/
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… 22/
Today's top sources: Lane Desborough, @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 23/ Image

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Geico STD story is the new McDonald's Hot Coffee story; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/hot…

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Next week (Jun 15/16) I'm speaking in #London at the CMAgovUK Data Technology and Analytics conference

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The Geico STD story is the new McDonald's Hot Coffee story: The real story is binding arbitration.

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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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The canonical example is the "McDonald's Hot Coffee Story" (aka *Liebeck v. McDonald's*). You know, that time an old lady got burned by her McDonald's coffee and sued for for $2.7 million?! Most people heard about it - and they heard it for a reason.

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