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Inside: Uber's still not profitable; and more!

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Uber's still not profitable: An effective wealth transfer of $2.8 billion from labor to capital in just three months.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1555557002834841600

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Hey look at this

* The housing theory of everything worksinprogress.co/issue/the-hous… (h/t @mzgrj)

* @Privacy4Cars: app to delete stored data from car systems (e.g. when selling a car or returning a rental) privacy4cars.com/personal-use/d… 3/

* Hidden Harms: The Misleading Promise of Monitoring Students Online cdt.org/insights/repor… 4/

#20yrsago ‘That would make a wicked WiFi antenna’ is the nerd equivalent of ‘That would make a wicked bong' memex.craphound.com/2002/08/05/wif…

#15yrsago @Richard_Kadrey’s Butcher Bird: Dante meets RE/Search memex.craphound.com/2007/08/05/kad… 5/

#5yrsago Toronto’s real-estate bubble is finally bursting wolfstreet.com/2017/08/03/tor…

#1yrago Facebook escalates war on accountability: Privacywashing vs Ad Observer pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/com… 6/

#1yrago Drone delivery crashes: What do AI, self-driving cars and Amazon drones have in common? pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/com…

#1yrago Anti-vaxers cool the mark: Using sociology to understand the con pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/com… 7/

#1yrago Meet the new generation of pro-abortion activists: No more Mx Nice Intersectionalist pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/com… 8/

Yesterday's threads: A TRAP for workers; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1555213727221383168

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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:

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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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* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
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* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), Sept 21-24
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Recent appearances:

* DRM Secretly Polices You (@dtnsshow)
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* Bricking Tractors (Inside Agri-Turf)
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* Blockchain, Bitcoin & Selling The Brooklyn Bridge (@MMTPodcast):
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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.

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My latest Medium column is "Divination: How the Tim Powers method for secret histories keeps my creative juices flowing"

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