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Inside: Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/15/simple-as-abc/
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This week (Jun 15/16) I'm speaking in London at the UK Competition and Markets Authority Data Technology and Analytics conference
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Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers: $100m flushed down the drain in Massachusetts.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108479688047520483
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Hey look at this
* EFF's analysis of the Data Privacy and Protection Act (tdlr: needs work) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/eff-urges-congress-strengthen-american-data-privacy-and-protection-act
* Email client K-9 Mail will become Thunderbird for Android https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/email-client-k-9-mail-will-become-thunderbird-for-android/ (h/t Slashdot) (I'm utterly dependent on both and I think this is probably great news)
* "Like all successful fascist narratives, [Top Gun Maverick] portrays our enemies as simultaneously all-powerful and extremely weak" https://letterboxd.com/bretterbox/film/top-gun-maverick/ (h/t JWZ)
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#20yrsago Colorado homeowners’ associations demand green lawns as the state burns https://web.archive.org/web/20020629032842/https://www.uswaternews.com/archives/arcsupply/2somhom6.html
#15yrsago HOWTO make ice-straws https://web.archive.org/web/20070717172641/http://www.instructables.com/id/SQDLVXYF2L4FTZ7/
#10yrsago Woman legislator in Michigan barred from future debates for using the word “vagina” in abortion debate https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/06/14/155059849/michigan-state-rep-barred-from-speaking-after-vagina-comments
#5yrsago What’s worse than shitty, hacked voting machines? Unauditable, shitty voting machines https://www.wired.com/story/georgia-runoff-election-hack-audit-vote/
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#5yrsago Not just savers! Wells Fargo also defrauded bankrupt mortgage borrowers https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/wells-fargo-loan-mortgage.html
#5yrsago American regions with high immigration enjoy persistent, long-term higher incomes and lower unemployment https://www.nber.org/digest/jun17/long-run-effects-immigration-during-age-mass-migration
#1yrago Taxes are for the little people: If your eyes glaze over at "carried interest loophole," wait'll you hear about "fee waivers" https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/15/guillotines-and-taxes/#carried-interest
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Yesterday's threads: Adventure Capitalism; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/108470330503571775
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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
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 Tor Books, Head of Zeus, 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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* UK Competition and Markets Authority Data Technology and Analytics conference (London), Jun 15-16
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-technology-and-analytics-conference-2022-registration-308678625077
* A New HOPE (NYC), Jul 24
https://www.hope.net/
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Recent appearances:
* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with Briahna Joy Gray):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67550669
* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
https://csi.asu.edu/calendar/events/the-sci-fi-feedback-loop-mapping-fictions-influence-on-real-world-tech/
* Privacy is the New Celebrity
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1806101/10643084
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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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If you're a Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is "Direct: The Problem of Middlemen," a review of Kathryn Judge's debut book about the problems of the middleman economy.
https://doctorow.medium.com/direct-the-problem-of-middlemen-a3651c62a207
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