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Author, journalist, activist. My latest is ATTACK SURFACE Books: Blog:

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    Today's threads (a thread). Inside: My talks with Snowden and William Gibson; Complicity, incompetence and Capitol Police; How Republicans froze Texas solid; Uber loses court battle, steals wages, censors whistleblower Archived at: 1/

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    “We Find Wildness” Gabriele Basilico (Unidentified Modern City)

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    Lysenko himself (top left) featured in a painting I did years ago. What a nut.

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    As once signed in a book I bought at a conference “information doesn’t want to be free, but people do”

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    Excellent analysis of Uber. I suspect you'll love this 'glossary entry' describing the Uber brand, by the peerless, poetic and not-on-Twitter Keller Easterling. It's the best single take on Uber I've read:

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    The business model for ‘big tech’ since at least the ‘60s: “a pile of shit this big must have a pony under it somewhere."

    Uber is a money-hemmorhaging bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). It's $6.8b losses in 2020 are not an aberration. 1/
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  9. 52 minutes ago

    Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (), Slashdot (). eof/

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  10. 52 minutes ago

    Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the at @pluralistic@mamot.fr. Here's today's edition: 19/

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    If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🤯". Suggestions solicited for future emojis! Subscribe here: 18/

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  12. 52 minutes ago

    You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at : no ads, trackers, or data-collection! Here's today's edition: 17/

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  13. 52 minutes ago

    My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter. 16/

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  14. 52 minutes ago

    Recent appearances: * Talking "Permanent Record" with Edward Snowden * Talking "Agency" with William Gibson * Software Freedom is Essential to Human Freedom ( keynote) 15/

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  15. 52 minutes ago

    Upcoming appearances: * Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22, * Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Contemporary Political Struggle: Social Movements, Social Surveillance, Social Media (with Zeynep Tufekci), Feb 24, 14/

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  16. 52 minutes ago

    My ebooks and audiobooks (from , , , 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." 13/

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  17. 52 minutes ago

    My 2020 book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposing a way to deal with both: Now, it's available in paperback! 12/

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  18. 53 minutes ago

    My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance." Get signed books from : 11/

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    Yesterday's threads: Planet Money on HP's myriad ripoffs; Strength in numbers; and more! 10/

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    Rental car immobilizes itself when driven out of cellular range Rethinking "de-growth" and material culture The Woman Who Loved Giraffes 9/

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    “Citizens” who speak at town meetings are hired, scripted actors Leaked memos suggest Volkswagen’s CEO knew about diesel cheating in 2014 8/

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