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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: An antitrust murder whodunnit; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/03/pow…

#Pluralistic 1/ A modified version of a Soviet propaganda cartoon called 'Ca
Tomorrow (Oct 4), I'm appearing remotely in a @BKCHarvard seminar about "Chokepoint Capitalism," the book Rebecca Giblin and I just published about monopoly and unfairness in creative labor markets.

cyber.harvard.edu/events/chokepo… 2/
An antitrust murder whodunnit: I accuse Judge Bork with the Powell Memo in the smoke-filled room.

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Hey look at this

* Disability Inclusion Fund RFP docs.google.com/document/d/1RB…

* RIP, Chandler Davis: political prisoner, sf writer, mathematician caseazatmiftakhov.org/2022/09/28/cha…

* The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 4/
#20yrsago Why is it so hard to get a cab in San Francisco? web.archive.org/web/2002100304…

#20yrsago Notes from OSXCon’s DRM and Digital Hub panel web.archive.org/web/2002101823…

#20yrsago Sidekick, your mobile blogging pal web.archive.org/web/2002101712… 5/
#15yrsago RIAA: Our anti-fan lawsuits are costing us millions arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#15yrsago Can “girl games” transcend shopping, fashion and babies? wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/200…

#15yrsago Charlie Stross’s Halting State: Heist novel about an MMORPG memex.craphound.com/2007/10/02/cha… 6/
#15yrsago The Future of Ignoring Things https://web.archive.org/web/20071011000250/https://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=479&doc_id=134703&

#10yrsago Congress: The DHS’s “fusion centers” full of bad intelligence, lies, and imaginary buildings nytimes.com/2012/10/03/us/… 7/
#10yrsago A Wrinkle in Time, worthy graphic novel adaptation memex.craphound.com/2012/10/03/a-w…

#10yrsago Costumes that integrate wheelchairs buzzfeed.com/babymantis/20-…

#10yrsago Japan competes with Panama to pass the world’s worst copyright law torrentfreak.com/anti-downloadi… 8/
#10yrsago The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There memex.craphound.com/2012/10/02/the…

#5yrsago The same Equifax exec who greenlit suspicious stock-sales was also in charge of cybersecurity consumerist.com/2017/10/02/the… 9/
#5yrsago Thanks to the EU, the UK’s privacy law may solve the mystery of Facebook and the last US election theguardian.com/technology/201…

#5yrsago Latest Federal Reserve figures show widening wealth inequality, and it’s much worse if you’re not white jacobin.com/2017/10/wealth… 10/
#5yrsago Spanish tech activists publish a “how-to guide for preserving fundamental rights on the Internet” xnet-x.net/en/how-to-guid…

#5yrsago @TimOReilly explains how self-driving cars will bankrupt Uber 11/
#5yrsago Taser says its weapons don’t kill people, so Reuters built a massive database of 1000+ Taser deaths reuters.com/investigates/s…

#5yrsago The London Underground thinks it can sell travelers’ attention and wifi data for £322m news.sky.com/story/tfl-may-… 12/
#5yrsago Yahoo revises number of hacked accounts from 500,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago Trump’s ICE snitch-line is full of people secretly trying to deport their in-laws splinternews.com/this-is-what-i… 13/
#5yrsago Bluetooth sex toys are trivial to compromise just by walking around neighborhoods arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago /r/TheDonald on the Vegas shooting, before and after they learned it was a rich old white man reddit.com/r/sadcringe/co… 14/
#5yrsago Equifax: we missed 2.5 million people when we counted the size of our breach marketwatch.com/story/equifax-…

#5yrsago Trump’s pick for EPA pollution czar says kids are less sensitive to pollution than adults theintercept.com/2017/10/03/epa… 15/
#5yrsago Either we don’t live in a simulation, or computing works differently outside the Matrix web.archive.org/web/2017100216…

#5yrsago San Juan mayor barred from speaking on Trump’s Puerto Rico relief conference call independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… 16/
#5yrsago Supreme Court will rule on whether immigrants have constitutional rights abovethelaw.com/2017/10/does-t…

#5yrsago @greatdismal’s Archangel: a graphic story of the unfolding jackpot apocalypse memex.craphound.com/2017/10/03/wil… 17/
#1yrago How the IMF loan-sharks the global south pluralistic.net/2021/10/02/deb… 18/
Saturday's threads: How Palantir will steal the NHS; and more!

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 20/
My latest novel 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… 21/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @beaconPressBks et al) 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/ 22/
Upcoming appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @BooksandBooks (Miami), 10/12
booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso…

* Reboot Conference, @JoinLincoln (Miami), 10/13
eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-…

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
libraryjournal.com/event/library-… 23/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @Rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
writersfestival.org/events/fall-20…

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

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/s… 24/
Recent appearances:

* Eastern Blocks (@TWIT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…

* Triangulation: Chokepoint Capitalism
twit.tv/shows/twit-eve…

* Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (@MachineKillsPod)
soundcloud.com/thismachinekil… 25/
Happy #SpookySeason! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by @McRockefeller.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 26/
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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.

My latest @Medium column is "The True Genius of Tech Leaders"

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Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 29/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 30/
Today's top sources: Linda Holliday. 31/

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