Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
Author/activist/journalist. New book: THE BEZZLE, a thriller about the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve https://t.co/4ZExCQHv6q @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Jul 27, 2021, 20 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: What would a live concert album sound like with all the songs taken out?; The infosec apocalypse is nigh; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/27/gas…

#Pluralistic

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What would a live concert album sound like with all the songs taken out?: Gavin Edwards' "Having Fun On Stage With Everybody."



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The infosec apocalypse is nigh: Ed Snowden on the NSO's malware.



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#20yrsago New "Chilling Effects" project tracks online takedowns eon.law.harvard.edu/chill/

#15yrsago Billy Bragg gets MySpace’s terms of service changed punknews.org/article/18343/…

#10yrsago Glenn Beck compares murdered Norway campers to “Hitler Youth” latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/201…

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#5yrsago Pro-tar-sands activists say dirty Canadian oil is better because “lesbians are hot” joeydevilla.com/2016/07/26/thi…

#5yrsago Highest-paid CEOs generate lowest shareholder returns msci.com/documents/1019…

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#5yrsago Olympics to companies: mentioning “Olympics” in social media is a trademark violation espn.com/olympics/story…

#5yrsago Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B because they’re charging for pix she donated to LoC law360.com/articles/82117…

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Yesterday's threads: Charter schools are money laundries; Disney parks and aggregate demand management; Oregon's carbon offsets go up in smoke; Surge pricing violates antitrust law; 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:

* Privacy Without Monopoly, @Defcon 29, Aug 7
defcon.org/html/defcon-29…

* Keynote speaker, The Quills Conference, Aug 12-15
quillsconference.com

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Recent appearances:

Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset…

* Trustbusting (Nicole Sandler)


* Launch for Neil Sharpson's When the Sparrow Falls (Mysterious Galaxy):
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 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!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/07/27/gas…

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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 "Now you’ve got two problems," part three of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.

doctorow.medium.com/now-youve-got-…

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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

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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: @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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