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Inside: McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/25/cri…

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#SanFrancisco! I'm in town TODAY AT 2PM with "Chokepoint Capitalism," @rgibli's and my latest book!

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McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution: "How would you like to pay that today?"

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Hey look at this

* Framework’s new Chromebook: upgradable, customizable theverge.com/2022/9/21/2336…

* 20 Mechanical Principles in a Lego Machine

* 5 Walled Gardens: Browsers Essential to the Internet; OSes Are Holding Them Back research.mozilla.org/browser-compet… 5/

#20yrsago Labels shoot selves in foot by focusing on stopping P2P itweb.co.za/content/WnxpE7…

#20yrsago Haunted Mansion movie inches forward web.archive.org/web/2002120108…

#15yrsago Chinese MMO bans in-game gender-bending web.archive.org/web/2007101201… 6/

#15yrsago Harvard lawyers shred Harvard Coop’s claim that book prices are “property” web.archive.org/web/2007110400…

#15yrsago Donald Duck foiled a patent application iusmentis.com/patents/priora…

#15yrsago Scroogled in the Wall Street Journal wsj.com/articles/SB119… 7/

#15yrsago Amazon creates gigantic DRM-free music store! web.archive.org/web/2007122111…

#10yrsago Guerrilla Grafters covertly add fruit-tree branches to ornamental trees web.archive.org/web/2012092100… 8/

#10yrsago UK government spent millions arming and training Congolese and Sudanese soldiers theguardian.com/politics/2012/…

#10yrsago Pranksters crash final speech of corporate tax avoidance taxman, posh hilarity ensues 9/

#10yrsago Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection: four discs of New Orleans jazz with guest appearances from Tom Waits, Pete Seeger, Del McCoury and others memex.craphound.com/2012/09/25/pre… 10/

#10yrsago Study: Republican state voting laws “will disenfranchise 10,000,000 Hispanic US citizens” web.archive.org/web/2012092408… 11/

#10yrsago Laptop rental companies reach cash-free, pointless settlement with toothless FTC for taking secret naked pictures of customers having sex, harvesting medical records and banking passwords and more wired.com/2012/09/laptop… 12/

#10yrsago EU working group produces the stupidest set of proposed Internet rules in the entire history of the human race arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Debunking the NYT feature on the wastefulness of data-centers web.archive.org/web/2012092600… 13/

#10yrsago Cyclists are safe and courteous, and your disdain for them is grounded in cognitive bias slate.com/technology/201… 14/

#10yrsago 64,000 drug-bust samples in Mass. were processed by a dirty lab tech who tampered with them, altered weight, faked positive and tests for illegal substances stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012… 15/

#10yrsago @DBtodomundo and St Vincent performing each others’ songs together pitchfork.com/news/47868-wat… andvincent-perform-each-others-songs/

#5yrsago Deluded billionaire gives UC Irvine $200M to study homeopathy and “alternative” therapies skepchick.org/2017/09/uc-irv… 16/

#5yrsago Tinder stores a scary amount of information about what you do, including your Facebook history theguardian.com/technology/201…

#5yrsago Equifax CEO Richard Smith is finally resigning consumerist.com/2017/09/26/equ… 17/

#5yrsago America’s worst patent judge gets a scorching language lesson from the appeals court techdirt.com/2017/09/25/app…

#5yrsago Trump DoJ nominee Jon Adler loves Scientology’s bogus, occasionally lethal “detox” program wired.com/story/doj-nomi… 18/

#5yrsago Deloitte got comprehensively hacked in March and didn’t tell anyone theguardian.com/business/2017/…

#5yrsago John Oliver on monopolies, anti-trust and the death of real competitive markets 19/

#5yrsago RIP Kit Reed, brilliant giant of science fiction facebook.com/EllenDatlow/po…

#1yrago The Scholars of Night: John M Ford was a goddamned WIZARD pluralistic.net/2021/09/26/mik… 20/

Yesterday's threads: Billionaire grifters hate her; 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.

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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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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:

* Chokepoint Capitalism, @BookSoup (LA), 9/27
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* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @AltaJournal Live (Zoom), 9/28
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Discussing "Adventure Capitalism" with @RayCraib, @SkylightBooks (LA), 9/29
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* #OnlinePublicSphere2022, 10/3
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* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @BooksandBooks (Miami), 10/12
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
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* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
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* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:

* Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (@MachineKillsPod)
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* Billionaires As Policy Failure Factories (@CheeseMacro)
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* Where’s My Privacy? (@myjetpackca)
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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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