Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Podcasting "Qualia"; Lazy Congress only schedules 9 days' work this summer; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/28/dub…
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Podcasting "Qualia": My column on quant-bias, antitrust, drug policy and epidemiology.
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Lazy Congress only schedules 9 days' work this summer: We're not paying you to party on donors' yachts.
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#15yrsago Jim Baen, sf publisher, has passed away web.archive.org/web/2011062819…
#10yrsago YouTube listens to fraudulent NyanCat takedown notice, drags heels on put-back from creator web.archive.org/web/2011062813…
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#10yrsago Wyoming’s corporation mills manufacture privileged artificial “people” to order web.archive.org/web/2011062923…
#5yrsago Hope Larson’s “Compass South”: swashbuckling YA graphic novel memex.craphound.com/2016/06/28/hop…
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#5yrsago Fansmitter: malware that exfiltrates data from airgapped computers by varying the sound of their fans arxiv.org/abs/1606.05915
#5yrsago Healthcare workers prioritize helping people over information security (disaster ensues) cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/pubs/ksbk…
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#5yrsago The Olympics are profitable for every host city (that lies about the numbers) timharford.com/2016/06/how-do…
#5yrsago Gun-waving cop who attacked black teenaged girl in her bathing suit faces no charges dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/06/23/gra…
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#5yrsago Always-on CCTVs with no effective security harnessed into massive, unstoppable botnet arstechnica.com/information-te…
#5yrsago Mississippi state rep tells distraught mom to buy kid’s lifesaving meds ‘with money she earns’ sunherald.com/news/local/cou…
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Yesterday's threads: ISP announces 86% slowdown "in line with others"; 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:
* Launch for @unshavedmouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks), Jul 10, mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021
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Recent appearances:
* Big Tech Fix, Feet to the Fire podcast:
feet2fire.net/e/a-bigtech-re…
* The ACCESS Act, @ConsumerReports:
consumerreports.org/digital-rights…
* Raging Chicken @rtpress podcast:
rcpress.podbean.com/e/out-dcoup-li…
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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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!
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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - and as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest Medium column is "Moral hazard and monopoly," on the need to break up big tech platforms
doctorow.medium.com/moral-hazard-a…
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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), Bruce Schneier (schneier.com).
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