Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Scammers recycled covid nose-swabs; Ed-tech apps spy on kids; NY AG attributes Net Neutrality fraud to telcos; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boo…
#Pluralistic
1/
Tomorrow (May 7), the @GburgBookFest is featuring me in an interview conducted by John @Scalzi; we pre-recorded the event but I'll be in the live chat for the premiere.
2/
Scammers recycled covid nose-swabs: Indonesia had 1.6m infections and these supervillains helped export them.
3/
Ed-tech apps spy on kids: Disciplinary Technology, SDKs, censorware, and education.
4/
NY AG attributes Net Neutrality fraud to telcos: 18 million fraudulent comments filed in the FCC docket.
5/
#10yrsago Syria’s man-in-the-middle attack on Facebook eff.org/deeplinks/2011…
#5yrsago America’s prisons are replacing vital in-person visits with expensive, nonfunctional video calling mic.com/articles/14277…
6/
#5yrsago Data-driven look at America’s brutal, racist debt-collection machine propublica.org/article/so-sue…
#5yrsago Community college evicts daycare center to make room for Goldman Sachs golocalprov.com/news/daycare-c…
7/
#5yrsago 2,000 US doctors endorse Sanders’ single-payer healthcare proposal washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…
#5yrsago FBI has been harassing a Tor developer since 2015, won’t tell her or her lawyer why blog.patternsinthevoid.net/fbi-harassment…
8/
#5yrsago Weird porn author who was dragged into Hugo Awards mess pulls off epic troll dailydot.com/unclick/chuck-…
#1yrago Ohio's got snitchline for bosses whose workers who won't go back pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/mol…
#1yrago Sacrifice banks to save businesses pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/mol…
9/
Yesterday's threads: Stimmies killed the McJob; MRNA vaccines and Clarke's Law; and more!
10/
My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."
Get signed books from @darkdel: darkdel.com/store/p1840/Av…
11/
My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…
Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…
12/
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/
13/
Upcoming appearances:
* In conversation with @Scalzi (@GburgBookFest), May 7,
* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, May 12, knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…
* Book launch for @Aminder_D's Cyclopedia Exotica, May 12, crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…
14/
Recent appearances:
* Hexapodia XIII with J Bradford De Long and Noah Smith
braddelong.substack.com/p/podcast-hexa…
* Podcapitalism Podcast
postcapitalismpodcast.com/cory-doctorow/
* Talking "Robot Artists & Black Swans" with Bruce Sterling
archive.org/details/robot-…
15/
My first picture book is 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…
16/
You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!
Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boo…
17/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
18/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "👩🏾🦯". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!
Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list
19/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.
Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…
20/
Today's top sources: Slashdot (slashdot.org).
eof/
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.