Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Corporate Bullshit; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/19/apologetics-spotters-guide/
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From the latter authors website:
https://inthepublicinterest.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-12-at-1.41.58-PM.png
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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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Corporate Bullshit: From manumission to minimum wages, it's always the same nonsense.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112989329694506680
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Hey look at this
* Public Ownership of Public Goods https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/public-ownership-of-public-goods
* Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American Militia https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-secret-ap3-militia-american-patriots-three-percent (h/t Jesse Eisinger)
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#15yrsago How free ebooks are good for well-known and obscure writers https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/aug/18/free-ebooks-cory-doctorow
#10yrsago Here’s all the stuff the Pentagon has sold to local law enforcement – cheap! https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/aug/15/we-have-pentagon-1033-program-data/
#10yrsago Monopolists are perfectly impedence-matched with bureaucrats https://timharford.com/2014/08/monopoly-is-a-bureaucrats-friend-but-a-democrats-foe/
#10yrsago Videoing police violence is the new “See something, say something” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/16/fergusons-citizen-journalists-video
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#10yrsago Fictional products don’t violate trademark laws https://www.techdirt.com/2014/08/15/software-company-loses-trademark-case-against-batman-over-fictional-software/
#5yrsago Towards a better practice of online news-corrections https://newscollab.org/2019/08/15/bringing-news-corrections-further-into-the-digital-age/
#5yrsago The case for allowing children to vote https://crookedtimber.org/2019/08/17/give-children-the-vote/
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Saturday's threads: "Disenshittify or Die"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112978817775297358
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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:
* 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:
* Tech Rights & The Future of Privacy (Synthetic Minds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD5iAV1YmO4
* Enzittification with @Zitron & @brianmerchant
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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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