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Inside: The super-rich got that way through monopolies; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/17/monopolies-produce-billionaires/
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Catch me in #Miami! I'll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:
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I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:
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1 0 ReplyThe super-rich got that way through monopolies: A report in honor of Davos.
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1 0 ReplyHey look at this
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The coming storm
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Retrocomputer miniatures
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#GoogleSearch Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
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1 0 Reply#15yrsago Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance, a look at the bumbling, murdering, drunken idiots (and others) who’ve served as vice-president of the USA
#10yrsago #TimWu on FCC’s #NetNeutrality disaster
#10yrsago Random #NSA program generator, with denials
#10yrsago Parfaitzilla: the dessert that ate Japan
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1 0 Reply#10yrsago Scoring Obama’s NSA reforms (spoiler: it’s not good)
#15yrsago Mr Chicken: the genius who paints London’s fried-chicken signs
#10yrsago Congress requires publicly funded research to be publicly available
#10yrsago Android malware uses accelerometer readings to figure out if it was running on a real phone or in emulation
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1 0 Reply#5yrsago An archive of Freedom, #PaulRobeson and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper
#5yrsago Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards
#5yrsago Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA #TeachersStrike
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1 0 Reply#5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU #CopyrightDirective
#1yrago #CareInflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about
#1yrago #EleanorJanega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex
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1 0 ReplyYesterday's threads: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; and more!
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1 0 ReplyMy latest novel is "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):
Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
Both are national bestsellers!
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1 0 ReplyMy 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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1 0 ReplyUpcoming appearances:
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Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech (#CrashCourseEconomics)
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Books & Books (#CoralGables, #Florida), Jan 22
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Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (#Berlin), Jan 29
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The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 30
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