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Inside: Antitrust is a labor issue; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/25/capri-v-tapestry/

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in THIS SATURDAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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Antitrust is a labor issue: Banning noncompetes is huge, but it's not all the FTC is doing!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112332042424572959

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Hey look at this

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The Pirate Google: making the point that Google’s as guilty of linking to torrents as The Pirate Bay https://web.archive.org/web/20090425044739/http://www.thepirategoogle.com/

Radical press demands copyright takedown of Marx-Engels Collected Works https://crookedtimber.org/2014/04/24/karlo-marx-and-fredrich-engels-came-to-the-checkout-at-the-7-11/

Band releases album as Linux kernel module https://github.com/usrbinnc/netcat-cpi-kernel-module

Joe Biden kicks off his presidential bid with a fundraiser hosted by Comcast’s chief lobbyist https://www.cbsnews.com/news/comcast-executive-to-host-joe-biden-fundraiser/

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“Black hat” companies sell services to get products featured and upranked on Amazon https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-marketplace-sellers-black-hat-scams-search-rankings

Vulnerabilities in GPS fleet-tracking tools let attackers track and immobilize cars en masse https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmpx4x/hacker-monitor-cars-kill-engine-gps-tracking-apps

Court case seeks to clarify that photographers don’t need permission to publish pictures that incidentally capture public works of art https://www.techdirt.com/2019/04/24/mercedes-goes-to-court-to-get-background-use-public-murals-promotional-pics-deemed-fair-use/

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A 40cm-square patch that renders you invisible to person-detecting AIs https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08653

Telcoms lobbyists oppose ban on throttling firefighters’ internet during wildfires https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/verizon-backed-lobby-group-opposes-ban-on-throttling-of-firefighters/

Angered by the No-More-AOCs rule, 31 colleges’ Young Democrats boycott the DCCC https://theintercept.com/2019/04/25/dccc-blacklist-college-democrats/

Older Americans are working beyond retirement age at levels not seen since 1962 https://web.archive.org/web/20201107235540/https://www.investmentnews.com/older-americans-are-twice-as-likely-to-work-now-as-in-1985-79176

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How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

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Yesterday's threads: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112327727934962273

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My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

http://lost-cause.org

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:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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Recent appearances:

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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in THIS SATURDAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

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