Saving the planet is illegal: Time to torch the Energy Charter Treaty.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105792924035484833

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#15yrsago Don Knotts dead at 81 https://web.archive.org/web/20060622165335/https://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/02/25/knotts.obit.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

#5yrsago Rosa Parks’s papers and photos online at the Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/collections/rosa-parks-papers/about-this-collection

#5yrsago HarperCollins to libraries: we will nuke your ebooks after 26 checkouts https://memex.craphound.com/2011/02/25/harpercollins-to-libraries-we-will-nuke-your-ebooks-after-26-checkouts/

#5yrsago Disney offers to deduct contributions to its PAC from employees’ paychecks, to lobby for TPP https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/disney-ceo-asks-employees-to-chip-in-to-pay-copyright-lobbyists/

#5yrsago Read: The full run of If magazine, scanned at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine

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#1yrago Cops' qualified immunity https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/pluralistic-your-daily-link-dose-25-feb-2020/#moralhazard

#1yrago Private equity looters underperform the S&P 500 https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/pluralistic-your-daily-link-dose-25-feb-2020/#extraordinaryclaims

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Yesterday's threads: Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve; EVs as distributed storage grid; The Mauritanian; Court rejects TSA qualified immunity; Why Brits can no longer order signed copies of my books; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105787672259306774

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html

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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:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

Now, it's available in paperback!

https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism/9781736205907

Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Affordable Internet Day of Action, Mar 16, https://www.affordable-internet.ca/

* World Ethical Data Forum keynote, Mar 17-19, https://worldethicaldataforum.org/wedf-2020

* Launching "The Future You" with Brian David Johnson, Mar 19, https://www.changinghands.com/event/march2021/brian-david-johnson-future-you-break-through-fear-and-build-life-you-want

* Balancing Worldbuilding and Narrative (with Karen Osborne and Kali Wallace), Mar 24, https://ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YSvD5IjGS7Su2z-xhQN1ZA

* Interop: Self-Determination vs Dystopia (FITC), Apr 19-21, https://fitc.ca/presentation/interop/

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Recent appearances:

* Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future (CERIAS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yC_hBDS-RU

* Talking "Permanent Record Young Readers' Edition" with Edward Snowden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipfjn3bir8

* Talking "Agency" with William Gibson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijGkwzrE1MY

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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.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com).

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@pluralistic I'm not apologizing for this