failedLyndonLaRouchite , 20 days ago

@pluralistic

This *sounds really good, but I wonder if there is any data on how much this has actually saved real people, as in dollars or prevention of lawsuit/foreclosures/garnishment of wages

pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

On June 20th, I'll be in Oakland, CA to keynote the @Locusmag Awards:

https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD: Fighting corporate crime with both fists and 7-2 SCOTUS backing.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112592622301195678

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

Hey look at this

• Philip K. Dick, The Last Ten Years: A Conversation Between a Dark-Haired Girl and Tim Powers https://user.well.com/engaged.cgi?t=546&c=inkwell.vue&f=0 (h/t Wagner James Au)

• Toronto Games Week https://torontogamesweek.com/

• Economic Termites Are Everywhere https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/economic-termites-are-everywhere

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

#15yrsago Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/10/student-challenges-prof-wins-right-to-post-source-code-he-wrote-for-course/

#15yrsago France’s three-strikes copyright rule is unconstitutional and hence dead https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2009/06/10/hadopi-is-dead-three-strikes-killed-by-highest-court/

#15yrsago The Brain that Changes Itself: hopeful book on the science of neuroplasticity https://memex.craphound.com/2009/06/10/the-brain-that-changes-itself-hopeful-book-on-the-science-of-neuroplasticity/

#10yrsago National anti-censorship orgs protest cancellation of Little Brother summer reading program https://ncac.org/incident/little-brother-pensacola

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

#10yrsago Piketty’s inherited-wealth dystopia: private capital millionaires multiply https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27774753

#10yrsago How Heinlein went from socialist to right-wing libertarian https://newrepublic.com/article/118048/william-pattersons-robert-heinlein-biography-hagiography

#10yrsago Whistleblower org says it will go to jail rather than turning over its keys https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/to-defeat-encryption-feds-deploy-the-subpoena/

#10yrsago Texas school bans sunscreen because a child might drink it https://web.archive.org/web/20140608074518/http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/san-antonioarea-school-district-do-not-bring-sunscreen-school-18590.shtml

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

#10yrsago Small town sheriff buys tank: “the United States of America has become a war zone” https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/06/07/police-officer-safety-surplus-zeal-military-equipment-spurs-debate-mrap-military-vehicle/10170225/

#5yrsago A grandmother is suing the TSA for strip searching her to get a look at her panty liner, on Mother’s Day https://professional-troublemaker.com/2019/06/06/tsa-strip-searches-grandmother-on-mothers-day-for-over-feminine-hygiene-product-gets-sued/

#5yrsago A trove of leaks show that Brazil’s “anti-corruption” task force was secretly trying to oust Lula and install a far-right strongman https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-archive-operation-car-wash/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

#5yrsago Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they’re working https://eand.co/half-of-americans-are-effectively-poor-now-what-the-c944c518db6a

#5yrsago Competition can fix Big Tech, but only if we don’t make “bigness” a legal requirement https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead?fsrc=gp_en?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/regulatingbigtechmakesthemstrongersotheyneedcompetitioninsteadopenvoices

#5yrsago Weekend SIM-swapping blitz targets US cryptocurrency holders https://www.zdnet.com/article/wave-of-sim-swapping-attacks-hit-us-cryptocurrency-users/

#5yrsago The NRA begs gun nuts for donations, spends lavishly on its board of directors and execs https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/nra-money-flowed-to-board-members-amid-allegedly-lavish-spending-by-top-officials-and-vendors/2019/06/09/3eafe160-8186-11e9-9a67-a687ca99fb3d_story.html

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

#5yrsago On Grenfell’s second anniversary, 60,000 Britons are still living in firetraps clad in the same deadly, decorative materials https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grenfell-tower-fire-material-high-rise-buildings-flat-block-a8946276.html

#1yrago Links, dumped https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/10/in-the-dumps-2/#do-the-humpty-dump

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

Saturday's threads: Uplinkchump Linkdump; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112580809276876719

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

Upcoming appearances:

• @Locusmag Awards keynote (Oakland), Jun 20
  https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

• HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
  https://www.hope.net/talks.html

• American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
  https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

Recent appearances:

• Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-iHWzqGK0

• All Tech is Human
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKThzsYGjEQ

• RISD Debates in AI keynote:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdSEcmplaDs

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

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18+ pluralistic OP , 20 days ago

On June 20th, I'll be in Oakland, CA to keynote the @Locusmag Awards:

https://locusmag.com/2024-locus-awards-weekend/

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