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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.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1536002017570832391

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Hey look at this

* Wil Wheaton's Acting Ensign Pride Pin shopstands.com/products/wil-w…

* Is "acceptably non-dystopian" self-sovereign identity even possible? blog.mollywhite.net/is-acceptably-…

* Download/print/cut/assemble seaside architecture blog.presentandcorrect.com/shipwright (h/t @jstruan) 4/

#20yrsago SEED school to be neutered by administrator memex.craphound.com/2002/06/12/see…

#15yrsago The origins of the copyright wars web.archive.org/web/2007061513…

#15yrsago WIPO is still going ahead with anti-podcast treaty web.archive.org/web/2007061516… 5/

#15yrsago New low in patent stupidity: searching for a used car with a clean title web.archive.org/web/2007061502…

#15yrsago EFF privacy attorney (@KevinBankston) is a magnet for privacy invading street-searches web.archive.org/web/2014041319…

#15yrsago Snitchtown forbes.com/2007/06/11/urb… 6/

#15yrsago @AmendLocke’s “Execution Channel” — chilling blogothriller memex.craphound.com/2007/06/11/ken…

#10yrsago Students assigned to cheat on exam use doctored Little Brother cover and many other clever methods rumint.org/gregconti/publ… 7/

#10yrsago On receiving an honorary doctorate in computer science from the @OpenUniversity memex.craphound.com/2012/06/11/on-…

#10yrsago G4S: the scandal-embroiled “private security” behemoth that will provide 10,000 “security contractors” to London 2012 independent.co.uk/voices/comment… 8/

#10yrsago @FTC sets sights on scammy “crammers” who bill your phone a fortune for services you don’t need, want, or use arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago The internet is changing civil wars, and will change them further washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-ca… 9/

#10yrsago Spanish activists raise money to sue bank boss at center of financial crisis web.archive.org/web/2012060603…

#5yrsago A comic that profiles @klg19, Columbia University’s first-ever comics curator spinweaveandcut.com/greene-anthrop… 10/

#5yrsago Thai police arrest three Chinese nationals in raid on social media “like”-farm web.archive.org/web/2017061800…

#5yrsago English isn’t uniquely expressive or fluid, but it is uniquely, dysfunctionally weird aeon.co/essays/why-is-… 11/

#5yrsago Arduino’s “arm’s-length” foundation is being run by CEO who lied about his degrees from MIT and NYU makezine.com/2017/06/09/fre…

#5yrsago The Tories’ failed £1.2m social smear ads reveal callouses on our attention’s tender spots memex.craphound.com/2017/06/11/the… 12/

#1yrago The ACCESS Act: The most significant interop legislation in US history pluralistic.net/2021/06/12/acc…

#1yrago Privacy Without Monopoly, EU edition: The GDPR forbids competition in human rights abuses pluralistic.net/2021/06/11/tec… 13/

Yesterday's threads: Monopolists want to create human inkjet printers; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1535324728839348224

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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:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 16/

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:

* @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… 20/

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My latest @Medium column is "Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism"

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