Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Facebook employees stalk users; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/14/who…
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Facebook employees stalk users: Moral hazard vs the ACCESS Act.
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#20yrsago Spam blacklist MAPS starts charging for access slashdot.org/story/01/07/13…
#20yrsago Original Hotwired guidelines web.archive.org/web/2001072200…
#5yrsago North Carolina adopts the nation’s worst police bodycam law abc11.com/1422569/
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#5yrsago Vivendi lobbyist appointed to run copyright for UN agency web.archive.org/web/2016071705…
#5yrsago The long, racist history of Brexiteer Boris Johnson, the new UK Foreign Secretary bbc.com/news/world-367…
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#5yrsago It’s official: the Olympics result in the worst budget overruns of any megaproject papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
#5yrsago America’s infrastructure debt is so bad that towns are unpaving roads they can’t afford to fix wired.com/2016/07/cash-s…
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#5yrsago UK Labour’s dirty trick excludes 130,000 members from leadership vote itv.com/news/2016-07-1…
#5yrsago For the first time, a federal judge has thrown out police surveillance evidence from a “Stingray” device rawstory.com/2016/07/federa…
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#5yrsago The US has spent $122B training foreign cops and soldiers in 150+ countries, but isn’t sure who theintercept.com/2016/07/13/tra…
#5yrsago Security researchers: the W3C’s DRM needs to be thoroughly audited eff.org/deeplinks/2016…
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#1yrago Privacy as a right, not a product pluralistic.net/2020/07/13/you…
#1yrago Don't talk about cancer on FB pluralistic.net/2020/07/13/you…
#1yrago California goes antitrust on Google pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
#1yrago Big Oil can have you locked up pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
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#1yrago Target workers strike over chickenization pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
#1yrago Artists vs tax havens pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
#1yrago Catalan politician hacked with NSO Group malware pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
#1yrago Poesy the Monster Slayer pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
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Monday's threads: Podcasting "Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability"; The Sacklers will get to keep billions; 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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Privacy Without Monopoly, @Defcon 29, Aug 7
defcon.org/html/defcon-29…
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Recent appearances:
Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset…
* Trustbusting (@nicolesandler)
* Launch for @UnshavedMouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks):
crowdcast.io/e/virtual-even…
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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 @MCRockefeller. 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 - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
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My latest @Medium column is "Are We Having Fun Yet?" part one of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.
doctorow.medium.com/b-are-we-havin…
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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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