#10yrsago 2BainCapital buys profitable American plant, ships it to China; soon-to-be-jobless workers train their overseas replacements theguardian.com/business/2012/… 9/
#10yrsago Animation teacher faces the sack for refusing to push “unnecessary, expensive” textbooks at hedge-fund invested Art Institute of California web.archive.org/web/2012081423…
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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 fellow Americans…if I may? I've only been a citizen for 5 weeks, but I have identified a key weakness in @TheDemocrats' election strategy, and I want to bring it up because it would be great if the forced birth/martial law/incarceration party didn't win the next election. 1/
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On Saturday, I sat in a crowded ballroom at Caesar's Forum in Vegas and watched @sickcodes jailbreak a John Deere tractor's control unit live, before an audience of cheering @Defcon 30 attendees (and, possibly, a few undercover Deere execs, who often attend Sickcodes's talks). 1/
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The presentation was significant because Deere - along with Apple - are the vanguard of the war on repair, a company that has made wild and outlandish claims about the reason that farmers must pay the company hundreds of dollars every time they fix *their own tractors*. 3/