Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: The super-rich got that way through monopolies; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/17/monopolies-produce-billionaires/
#Pluralistic
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Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: The super-rich got that way through monopolies; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/17/monopolies-produce-billionaires/
#Pluralistic
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Hey look at this
The coming storm
Retrocomputer miniatures
#GoogleSearch Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
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#15yrsago Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance, a look at the bumbling, murdering, drunken idiots (and others) who’ve served as vice-president of the USA
#10yrsago #TimWu on FCC’s #NetNeutrality disaster
#10yrsago Random #NSA program generator, with denials
#10yrsago Parfaitzilla: the dessert that ate Japan
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#10yrsago Scoring Obama’s NSA reforms (spoiler: it’s not good)
#15yrsago Mr Chicken: the genius who paints London’s fried-chicken signs
#10yrsago Congress requires publicly funded research to be publicly available
#10yrsago Android malware uses accelerometer readings to figure out if it was running on a real phone or in emulation
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#5yrsago An archive of Freedom, #PaulRobeson and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper
#5yrsago Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards
#5yrsago Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA #TeachersStrike
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#5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU #CopyrightDirective
#1yrago #CareInflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about
#1yrago #EleanorJanega’s “Once and Future Sex”: The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex
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Yesterday’s threads: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; and more!
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My latest novel is “The Lost Cause,” a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):
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My latest nonfiction book is “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation” from Verso Books:
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
Both are national bestsellers!
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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:
Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech (#CrashCourseEconomics)
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YsKONp5zRgeF6SVuIOb6hQ#/registration
Books & Books (#CoralGables, #Florida), Jan 22
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (#Berlin), Jan 29
The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 30
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