Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Madeline Ashby's 'Glass Houses'; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/13/influencers/
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I'm coming to BURNING MAN! On TUESDAY (Aug 27) at 1PM, I'm giving a talk called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE!" at PALENQUE NORTE (7&E). On WEDNESDAY (Aug 28) at NOON, I'm doing a "Talking Caterpillar" Q&A at LIMINAL LABS (830&C).
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Community voting for SXSW is live! If you wanna hear Rida Qadri and me talk about how gig workers can disenshittify their jobs with interoperability, vote for this one!
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150498
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Now I wish I was going to the playa this year! I've attended talks at Palenque Norte many times and served in the associated teahouse. (Hi Annie!)
Now I wish I was going to the playa this year! I've attended talks at Palenque Norte many times and served in the associated teahouse. (Hi Annie!)
@godzero I met another Palenque Norte volunteer working as a dealer at the Horseshoe Poker Room during the EFF Charity Tournament at Defcon last week!
@pluralistic
Not as sorry as I am to miss you.
Not as sorry as I am to miss you.
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Madeline Ashby's 'Glass Houses': A savage, high-tech locked-room mystery.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112955449165883092
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#20yrsago Waldrop: 1954 was a GREAT time to be a kid http://www.infinitematrix.net/columns/waldrop/waldrop13.html
#15yrsago Seder for liberated robots https://web.archive.org/web/20090816092953/https://papersky.livejournal.com/443771.html
#15yrsago Adobe: Once you license software in France, you can only use it in French https://web.archive.org/web/20090814174633/http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=670
#15yrsago Visualizing a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book https://flowingdata.com/2009/08/11/choose-your-own-adventure-most-likely-youll-die/
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#15yrsago EVE Online creates exotic financial instrument to combat gold-farming https://web.archive.org/web/20090813113841/http://www.massively.com/2009/08/11/the-fight-against-rmt-in-eve-online/
#15yrsago Anti-health-care loon says Stephen Hawking wouldn’t stand a chance under British health care system https://web.archive.org/web/20090806222911/https://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=333933006516877
#5yrsago Imagineering In a Box: free instructional video series from Disney and Khan Academy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv7sBCHvBEA
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#5yrsago Brazil’s highest court rules that Bolsonaro cannot use criminal investigations to harass Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/09/huge-victory-press-freedom-brazil-supreme-court-bars-bolsonaro-investigating-glenn
#5yrsago Donor maps show just how widespread Sanders’ support is https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/02/us/politics/2020-democratic-fundraising.html
#5yrsago Big Pharma’s origin: how the Chicago School and private equity shifted medicine’s focus from health to wealth https://newrepublic.com/article/149438/big-pharma-captured-one-percent
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#5yrsago Adversarial Fashion: clothes designed to confuse license-plate readers https://adversarialfashion.com/collections/all
#1yrago The Sacklers woulda gotten away with it if it wasn't for those darned meddling feds https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed
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Yesterday's threads: The paradox of choice screens; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112950546802865948
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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
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:
* Launch for Madeline Ashby's *Glass Houses* at Chevalier's Books (LA), Aug 16
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-madeline-ashbys-glass-houses-tickets-965286486867
* Disenshittify or die! (Burning Man, Palenque Norte, 7&E), Aug 27, 13h
* Talking caterpillar Q&A (Burning Man, Liminal Labs, 830&C), Aug 28, 12h
* Albacon (Albany/remote), Sep 13-15
https://albacon.org/2024/
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/
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Recent appearances:
* Enzittification with @Zitron & @brianmerchant
* The Paradigm Shift
https://paradigm-shift-on-4zzz.pinecast.co/episode/dbf12eaf/tech-criticism-with-cory-doctorow
* How To Fix The Internet ( @eff)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/podcast-episode-fighting-enshittification
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I'm coming to BURNING MAN! On TUESDAY (Aug 27) at 1PM, I'm giving a talk called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE!" at PALENQUE NORTE (7&E). On WEDNESDAY (Aug 28) at NOON, I'm doing a "Talking Caterpillar" Q&A at LIMINAL LABS (830&C).
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Community voting for SXSW is live! If you wanna hear Rida Qadri and me talk about how gig workers can disenshittify their jobs with interoperability, vote for this one!
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150498
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