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Inside: Biden set to appoint mass foreclosure cheerleader to the Fed; and more!

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#Pluralistic 1/ A bombed out neighborhood. Over the crumbling houses is the
Tomorrow (3/7) I'm doing a remote talk for #TUWien:

informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373

On 3/9, I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:

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And remote at #UManitoba:

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On 3/10, @Rgibli and I kick off @SXSW's readings:

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Biden set to appoint mass foreclosure cheerleader to the Fed: Janice Eberly provided cover for Tim Geithner's policy of No Banker Left Behind.

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Hey look at this

* Dumb Password Rules dumbpasswordrules.com (h/t Schneier)

* How to Photobash Art for your Zines! (h/t @Jstruan)

* can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI botharetrue.substack.com/p/can-everyone… (h/t @Metafilter) 4/
#15yrsago #TSA endangers child’s life by contaminating his feeding tube despite pleas web.archive.org/web/2008030817…

#15yrsago Treasury Dept confiscates domain names of Brit travel agent who booked #Cuba tours nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/… 5/
#15yrsago TSA: laptops will stop making planes explode if you just build a bag like this one web.archive.org/web/2008030616…

#15yrsago @NineInchNails made at least $750k from @CreativeCommons release in two days gondwanaland.com/mlog/2008/03/0… 6/
#10yrsago @Wikipedia and #libraries: a match made in heaven everybodyslibraries.com/2013/03/04/fro…

#10yrsago Transcript of @Lessig’s talk: “Aaron’s Law” nakedcapitalism.com/2013/03/transc…

#10yrsago How to be better at being pissed off at #BigTech locusmag.com/2018/03/cory-d… 7/
#10yrsago Access files on locked, encrypted Android phones by putting them in a freezer for an hour cs1.tf.fau.de/research/syste…

#10yrsago Fix the #DMCA! Repeal #AntiCircumvention and truly own your devices web.archive.org/web/2013031111… 8/
#10yrsago Random House launches ebook imprint that’s run like a predatory vanity press memex.craphound.com/2013/03/06/ran…

#5yrsago Six immortal superweapons the Democrats made for the president, which Trump gets to wield truthdig.com/articles/six-w… 9/
#5yrsago How #401k's created a class of suckers to be fleeced by the investor class nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opi…

#5yrsago Rhode Island proposes blocking all online porn and charging $20 to unblock it arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 10/
#5yrsago @GeekSquad’s secret spying on behalf of the #FBI went on for a decade and involved constant, ongoing collaboration eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

#5yrsago #Stalkerware vendor #RetinaX capitulates to vigilante hacker, shuts down “indefinitely” vice.com/en/article/neq… 11/
#5yrsago The UK government declined a chance to get £364m out of #Carillion before it failed, and public purse is now on the hook for that money theguardian.com/business/2018/…

#1yrago #StudentDebt strike called for May 1 pluralistic.net/2022/03/06/i-w… 12/
Saturday's threads: Solving the Moderator's Trilemma with Federation; 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:

* Seize the Means of Computation (TU Wien), 3/7
informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373

* @utsdct (#Austin), 3/9
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…

* Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture (@umanitobasci), 3/9
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e… 17/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @SXSW #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 3/10
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP…

* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, 3/20
events.iu.edu/ostromworkshop…

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
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Recent appearances:

* Making Big Tech Better vs Making it Smaller (@BruxConf2023):


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* The Gould Standard
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered). 23/

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