Today's threads:
A simple, incomplete ransomware defense; Community Health Services sued its way through the pandemic; Apple's complicity in Chinese state oppression; What Would OSS Look Like If It Were Healthy; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/18/unh…
#Pluralistic
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Tomorrow (5/19), I'm doing a talk called "Seize the Means of Computation," at the Ryerson Centre for Free Expression:
cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…
And on Thu (5/20), I'm doing a keynote called "Privacy Without Monopoly," for the Northsec conference:
nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…
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A simple, incomplete ransomware defense: Attribution is hard, but whatever works.
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Community Health Services sued its way through the pandemic: When health is a business, medical debt is an asset.
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Apple's complicity in Chinese state oppression: Corporations don't have character, they have incentives.
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What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy: Sumana Harihareswara's Github talk.
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#15yrsago Audio from @bruces's “Arphid nor RFID” rant mazine.ws/node/314
#15yrsago Cops raid “sex slave cult” based on science fiction novels news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4…
#10yrsago List of economists involved in violent sex crimes, for Ben Stein blog.xkcd.com/2011/05/18/ans…
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#5yrsago Elsevier buys SSRN techdirt.com/articles/20160…
#5yrsago We Stand on Guard: in 100 years, America seizes Canada for its water memex.craphound.com/2016/05/18/we-…
#1yrago US insurers say paying for pandemic treatment is "selfless" pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…
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#1yrago Deliveroo, without Deliveroo pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…
#1yrago Restaurateur wreaks algorithmic vengeance upon Doordash pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…
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Yesterday's threads: Paygo, false consciousness and the IRS; The Public Interest Internet; Concluding How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism; and more!
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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…
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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…
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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 appearances:
* Seize the Means of Computation, @RyersonCFE, May 19, cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…
* Privacy Without Monopoly, @NorthSec_io, May 20, nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…
* In conversation with David Dayen (Second Life Book Club), Jun 4, draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…
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Recent appearances:
* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media
* Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans
open.spotify.com/episode/01dGJO…
* Can Antitrust Laws Destroy Surveillance Capitalism? (Majority Report)
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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…
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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…
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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).
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