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Inside: How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends; and more!

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#NYC! I'm in town this week with "Chokepoint Capitalism," @rgibli's and my latest book! See us tonight at 7PM at @mcnallyjackson Seaport:

mcnallyjackson.com/event/rebecca-…

And on Friday at @NYUEngelberg!

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(and in between, I'll be at #UnfinishedLive: live.unfinished.com)

More cities here:

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How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends: A new interop design fiction from EFF.

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Hey look at this

* Regs2Riches regs2riches.com (outstanding!) (h/t Andrew Hunter)

* DIY graphics calculator galdeano02 hardware (h/t @hackaday)

* It’s Time For A Federal Anti-SLAPP Law To Protect Online Speakers eff.org/deeplinks/2022… 5/

#20yrsago Infosec advice for civil society web.archive.org/web/2002040120…

#15yrsago Brian Dettmer’s “Book Autopsies” — sliced book sculptures web.archive.org/web/2007092503…

#15yrsago @KarlSchroeder’s Ventus now a free CC download web.archive.org/web/2007092022… 6/

#15yrsago Mozilla creating a foundation to improve email web.archive.org/web/2007091820…

#15yrsago Head of US copyright says “DMCA does what it is supposed to do” memex.craphound.com/2007/09/17/hea… 7/

#15yrsago NYTimes kills its paywall: “Google visitors make more dough than subscribers” nytimes.com/2007/09/18/bus…

#15yrsago Airport cops’ database includes your reading material wired.com/2007/09/u-s-ai… 8/

#15yrsago MediaDefender sends takedowns for leaked mail, gets savagely taunted arstechnica.com/information-te…

#15yrsago Harvard bookstore: Our prices are “property” web.archive.org/web/2007102706… 9/

#10yrsago Thin-skinned, plagiarizing Philippines Senator criminalizes “libel” with last minute stealth-attack on cybercrime bill raissarobles.com/2012/09/18/who…

#10yrsago Court to hear argument on the privacy implications of “junk” DNA databases eff.org/deeplinks/2012… 10/

#10yrsago HOWTO be a good commenter whatever.scalzi.com/2012/09/18/how…

#10yrsago Scroogled: CC-licensed story about the day Google turned evil web.archive.org/web/2007092019…

#10yrsago Terrorists suck at terrorism politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmuell… 11/

#10yrsago District Attorneys rent out their letterhead to debt collectors, split the shakedown loot nytimes.com/2012/09/16/bus…

#10yrsago Turing and Burroughs: a beatnik SF novel by @rudytheelder rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/09/1… 12/

#10yrsago A mandatory $180 art school textbook about “prehistory to 1800” with no pictures, thanks to a lack of mysterious “copyright clearances” ashleyit.com/blogs/brentash… 13/

#10yrsago Obama 2012 campaign erases all previous civil liberties campaign guarantees web.archive.org/web/2012091909…

#5yrsago World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resigns eff.org/deeplinks/2017… 14/

#5yrsago Florida Power and Light lobbyists made it illegal to use solar during outages miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-fru…

#5yrsago Vancouver housing co-op rescinds family’s apartment because unborn child is a girl cbc.ca/news/canada/br… 15/

#5yrsago No one wants to host the Olympics thewire.in/sport/why-nobo…

#5yrsago Equifax was always dirty, it bills the US government for millions, and was repeatedly hacked memex.craphound.com/2017/09/19/equ… 16/

#5yrsago America’s dirtiest, biggest student lender neutralized by federal watchdog bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago Study shows mainstream press condemns Nazis and anti-racist activists at comparable rates fair.org/home/in-month-… 17/

#5yrsago @Annaleen’s Autonomous: a robosexual romp through an unequal future where biotech patent-enforcement is the only law memex.craphound.com/2017/09/19/ann…

#5yrsago California Democrats sell out online privacy in the dead of night eff.org/deeplinks/2017… 18/

#5yrsago #Dieselgate kills 5,000 Europeans per year phys.org/news/2017-09-d…

#5yrsago In California’s foreclosure valley, rents soar thanks to hedge fund landlords nakedcapitalism.com/2017/09/wall-s… 19/

#5yrsago Survey: Canadians are increasingly denying science, climate and vaccines vice.com/en/article/mb7…

#5yrsago Turkish high school students will no longer be taught “controversial” evolutionary theory english.alaraby.co.uk/features/turke… 20/

#5yrsago Downtown LA: high vacancy rates and catastrophic homelessness web.archive.org/web/2017091800… 21/

Friday's threads: Moneylike; 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… 23/

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… 24/

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/ 25/

Upcoming appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism, @mcnallyjackson (NYC), Sept 19, 7PM
mcnallyjackson.com/event/rebecca-…

* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), 9/21-23
live.unfinished.com

* Chokepoint Capitalism with @reckless, @NYUEngelberg (NYC) 9/23, 7PM
eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c… 26/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism, SFPL (San Francisco), 9/25
sfpl.org/events/2022/09…

* Chokepoint Capitalism, @BookSoup (LA), 9/27
booksoup.com/event/cory-doc… 27/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Discussing "Adventure Capitalism" with @raycraib, @skylightbooks (LA), 9/29
blog.pmpress.org/events/raymond…

* #OnlinePublicSphere2022, 10/3
globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/events/regulat…

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org 28/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:

* Billionaires As Policy Failure Factories (@CheeseMacro)
realprogressives.org/podcast_episod…

* Where’s My Privacy? (@myjetpackca)
wheresmyjetpack.ca/2022/09/14/doc…

* Launch for @motherboard's Terraform antho
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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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