#5yrsago Missouri legislator responds to abortion controversy by slaughtering chicken. ‘God gave man dominion over animals.’ web.archive.org/web/2017061312… 8/
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#5yrsago Missouri legislator responds to abortion controversy by slaughtering chicken. ‘God gave man dominion over animals.’ web.archive.org/web/2017061312… 26/
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:
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."
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.
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. 37/
My latest @Medium column is "Direct: The Problem of Middlemen," a review of @profkatejudge's debut book about the problems of the middleman economy.
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In the run-up to the 2020 election, "gig work" companies, led by Uber and Lyft, firehosed $225m to back the passage of #Prop22, a law that would permanently allow them to misclassify employees as contractors, not entitled to benefits or workplace protections. 1/
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More than a decade after *Citizens United* - the Supreme Court ruling that paved the way for unlimited dark money in US election spending - it's sometimes hard to get a sense of scale. Is $225m a lot of money to spend on a California ballot initiative? 3/