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Inside: Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable; and more!

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Tomorrow (11/12), I'm at @WaterstonesOxf:
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Sun (11/13), I'm presenting at @AaronSwartzDay:
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11/16, I'm in DC for the Arthur C Clarke Award:
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Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable: A photon torpedo on the bridge in Act I will go off by Act III.

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* Classic Computers Papercraft Collection archive.org/details/amiga-… Computer Papercrafts/Amstrad-CPC-264-Papercraft-Ver-2/ (h/t Ars Technica) 5/
#20yrsago AIs ate my economy web.archive.org/web/2002112706…

#20yrsago How Karl Rove used a Blackberry to put W in office web.archive.org/web/2002111215…

#20yrsago Fast-forwarding is not a crime! latimes.com/archives/la-xp… 6/
#15yrsago Democrats: Colleges must do copyright surveillance, or else scoopsmangum.blogspot.com/2007/11/democr…

#15yrsago @DBtodomundo considers IKEA as a video game web.archive.org/web/2007110822…

#15yrsago Top US spook officially redefines "privacy" to mean "surveillance" web.archive.org/web/2007111307… 7/
#10yrsago TSA inspectors get a larger annual clothing allowance than Marine lieutenants get through their whole careers washingtonexaminer.com/tsa-uniform-pe…

#10yrsago Intel to Boy Scouts: no more donations if you don’t drop anti-gay policy oregonlive.com/silicon-forest… 8/
#5yrsago Excellent, plain-language explainer on corporate and 1 percenter tax evasion, with a simple solution nytimes.com/interactive/20…

#5yrsago Paradise Papers reveal cozy relationship between Stubhub and Canadian botmaster/tout kingpin cbc.ca/news/business/… 9/
#5yrsago Equifax’s CEO isn’t sure whether they’ve finally started encrypting their servers yet techtarget.com/searchsecurity… 10/
Yesterday's threads: Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy; 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:

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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:

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Chokepoint Capitalism at @WaterstonesOxf, Nov 12:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/chokepoint-c…

* @AaronSwartzDay and International Hackathon, Nov 13:
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* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @library_futures Webinar, 11/17
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* Chokepoint Capitalism at @ThePeale Museum (Baltimore), 11/18:
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* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Conversation with @Superwuster, #Informed22/@knightfdn (Miami), 11/30:
informed22.interkinnect.com

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 17/
Recent appearances:

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics (@teamhumanshow)
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* @PitchforkEcon
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* Why Patients Should Hack Med Tech (@Defcon 30)
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Inside: Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/11/10/you…

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TONIGHT! I'm at the #RadicalBookFair in #Edinburgh, with my Chokepoint Capitalism co-author @rgibli!
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Sun (11/13), I'm presenting at @AaronSwartzDay:
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A class action suit against Apple and Amazon accuses the companies of price-fixing Ios devices through an agreement that blocks third-party sellers from Amazon unless they're authorized by Apple.

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The suit should be a slam-dunk - but even more, the conduct it accuses Apple and Amazon of should never have been permitted in the first place. 3/
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