Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: In Search Of A Flat Earth; A cryptographic mystery solved; Youtube's war on algorithmic radicalization; The Hardware Lottery; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/09/18/the…
#Pluralistic
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My first-ever Kickstarter is on! Pre-order the audiobook and/or ebook of Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book, and help me redefine the way publishers, writers and readers deal with Big Tech monopolies!
kickstarter.com/projects/docto…
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In Search Of A Flat Earth: From Flat Earth to Qanon, the rise of murderous cults.
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A cryptographic mystery solved: How a Cuban numbers station's decade-long opsec fail blew Russian spies' cover.
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Youtube's war on algorithmic radicalization: Selective rabbit-hole elimination is HARD.
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The Hardware Lottery: Chip architecture is the secret legislator of machine learning.
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#5yrsago Tell-all free-to-play-game dev's confessions toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-…
#5yrsago Poker malware infects your computers and peeks at your cards welivesecurity.com/2015/09/17/the…
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Yesterday's threads: Attack Surface a la carte; Kapital! The board game; Private equity's new debt-and-loot bonanza; and more!
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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:
onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…
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My next book is ATTACK SURFACE, sequel to Little Brother and Homeland: it's a technothriller about a surveillance techie who goes home and learns the weapons she helped build are used against the racial justice movement founded by her best friend.
read.macmillan.com/promo/attacksu…
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Upcoming talks:
* Keynote for Law Via the Internet conference, Sept 22, crowdcast.io/e/LVI2020/regi…
* DWeb Meetup — If Big Tech Is Toxic, How Do We Build Something Better? Sept 22, eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-…
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My first picture book just came 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.
pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.
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Today's top sources: Kottke (kottke.org), Bruce Schneier (schneier.com), Four Short Links (oreilly.com/feed/four-shor…).
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