Join me this afternoon for the launch of the print edition of my 2020 book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM!
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Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight: First Nations treaties do not sign away electromagnetic franchises.
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How apps steal your location: A deep dive into the murky depths of surveillance markets.
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Understanding /r/wallstreetbets: More than a bull run, a symbiosis of a market maker and market destroyers.
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Knowledge is why you build your own apps: Outsourcing software development squanders vital understanding.
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#15yrsago Photographer’s bust-card silkscreened on white-balance cards
https://t.co/AeAdoPEOdF #15yrsago What the LibreOffice fork means for Oracle’s shabby treatment of Sun’s free software projects
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#15yrsago Danny O’Brien’s Open Source con presentation on Evil
https://t.co/XnNA1GTwjF #10yrsago William Gibson on Stuxnet
https://t.co/8ystFfWRRo #10yrsago Fair use for poets, demystified
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#5yrsago Bill Gates sold rights to the Tiananmen 1989 pictures to a Chinese company
https://t.co/6Ne78KoE0y #5yrsago Guess who donated all the money to Black Americans for a Better Future Super PAC? Rich white men.
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#5yrsago Anaheim: the happiest surveillance state on earth
https://t.co/lEDn8bVtPr #5yrsago Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen wipes out coral reef with his superyacht
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#5yrsago Florida mayors write to GOP presidential hopefuls demanding action on climate change
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#1yrago “A piece of shit”: Government report on Wells Fargo corruption shows top executives’ direct complicity in millions of acts of fraud
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#1yrago “The Art of Computer Designing”: stark, beautiful black-and-white images from 1993
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#1yrago What happens when you steadily ramp up the speed at which you listen to podcasts
https://t.co/O7L4xfcBQZ #1yrago After ransomware took Baltimore hostage, Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing the bugs ransomware exploits
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#1yrago The “ops lessons we all learn the hard way”
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#1yrago The Catholic Church broke its promise to publish a list of “credibly accused” abuser priests, so Propublica did it for them
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Yesterday's threads: Casino mogul steals First Nation's vaccine; Facebook champions (its own) privacy; Goldman CEO gets $17.5m reward for $4.5b fraud; and more!
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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
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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://t.co/Us0SPxlcmD Now, it's available in paperback!
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Launch for the print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, Jan 28,
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Recent appearances:
* Monocle Reads
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https://t.co/7YeNDAjLfc * Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change:
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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.
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