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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Dead, broke; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/19/zom…

#Pluralistic

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Today (5/19), I'm doing a talk called "Seize the Means of Computation," at the @RyersonCFE:

cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

And tomorrow (5/20), I'm doing a keynote called "Privacy Without Monopoly," for the @NorthSec_io conference:

nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…

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Dead, broke: What it's like to inherit nothing but debt.



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#15yrsago Is one month’s piracy worth more than France’s GDP? web.archive.org/web/2006052402…

#10yrsago CDC explains how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthma…

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#5yrsago A look at digital habits of 13 year olds shows desire for privacy, face-to-face time blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digi…

#5yrsago Second Life’s Trump army lays siege to Bernie Sanders’s virtual HQ with swastika cannons vice.com/en/article/yp3…

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#5yrsago Angry dudes are downranking woman-oriented TV shows on review sites fivethirtyeight.com/features/men-a…

#5yrsago Apple rejects game about Palestine because political messages disqualify games from consideration arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05…

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#1yrago Softbank's "pegasus" grift pluralistic.net/2020/05/19/lar…

#1yrago "Shoe-leather" contact tracing works pluralistic.net/2020/05/19/lar…

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Yesterday'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 Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy; 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 @ddayen (Second Life Book Club), Jun 4, draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…

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Recent appearances:

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media


* @mamohanraj and @ben_rosenbaum Are Humans
open.spotify.com/episode/01dGJO…

* Can Antitrust Laws Destroy Surveillance Capitalism? (@majorityfm)


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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 @mcrockefeller. 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 @[e-mail].

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's top sources: Patrick Nielsen Hayden (twitter.com/pnh/).

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