Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/
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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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American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides: A common core, but no commons.
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Hey look at this
Among Linguists, the #WordOfTheYear Is More of a Vibe
The #FTC Just Blocked Four Mergers in a Month. Here’s How Its Latest Win Fits Into the Broader Campaign to Revive #Antitrust
The charges against #Binance
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#20yrsago Developing nations shouldn’t respect US #copyright unless farm subsidies end
#20yrsago Self-parking #Prius
#20yrsago #Disney selling off #CelebrationFlorida
#15yrsago #Zimbabwean $100 trillion note
#15yrsago UK MPs to hide their expenses from #FreedomOfInformation requests
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#10yrsago Building a fully open, transparent laptop
#10yrsago Why the sum of all positive integers is -1/12
#10yrsago #NSA harvests 200M of SMSes every day with untargeted, global “#Dishfire” program
#10yrsago Congress calls on Schneier to give it answers that the NSA won’t https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/today_i_briefed.html
#10yrsago How to have a healthy relationship with technology
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#10yrsago What’s the most profitable price for an ebook?
#10yrsago #CopyrightTroll dodging disbarment by resigning from the bar?
#10yrsago The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, a graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg
#10yrsago Leaked: environmental chapter of the secret #TransPacificPartnership treaty
#10yrsago #BoothBabes are bad for business
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#10yrsago Blackphone: a privacy-oriented, high-end, unlocked phone
#10yrsago #HEADWATER: NSA program for sabotaging #Huawei routers over the Internet https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/headwater_nsa_e.html
#10yrsago Judge rules TSA #NoFly procedures unconstitutional
#10yrsago Dirty secrets of America’s most notorious #PatentTroll
#10yrsago UK consultation on #OrphanWorks
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#5yrsago Even the rightsholders think Europe’s #Article13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations
#5yrsago AOC’s debut speech on the Congressional floor: “It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want.”
#5yrsago Vermont official fact-checks mobile carriers’ coverage maps, proves they’re lying like crazy
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#5yrsago The glass is half-full (of bile over Facebook’s business-model)
#5yrsago Privatized energy utilities are burning down their states, but antitrust can make them stop
#5yrsago Trump’s #FCC chairman won’t do anything about your cellular company selling your location to bountyhunters because #shutdown
#5yrsago Shutdowns don’t get bad linearly; they get bad exponentially
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#5yrsago Tory voters: are you happy with your purchase?
#5yrsago Largest dump in history: 2.7 billion records; 773 million of them unique; 140 million never seen before "
#1yrago 1,000,000 stranded #Southwest passengers deserved better from #PeteButtigieg
#1yrago Normalize Dark Corners!
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Yesterday's threads: Sympathy for the spammer; and more!
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My 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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My 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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Upcoming appearances:
Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech (#CrashCourseEconomics)
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YsKONp5zRgeF6SVuIOb6hQ#/registration
Books & Books (#CoralGables, #Florida), Jan 22
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (#Berlin), Jan 29
The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 30
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Recent appearances:
The Lost Cause (The Writer's Voice)
What the Future will Bring (#HomelessRomantic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Vq8qW2A8I
Talking "The Lost Cause" with Warren Mosler (#MMTPodcast)
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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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