Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Bankruptcy and elite impunity; Stories from Black women's customer service hell; Tracking you with accelerometer signatures; Unauthorized cups; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/imp…
#Pluralistic
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Bankruptcy and elite impunity: The Sacklers offer billions of reasons to overthrow the system.
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Stories from Black women's customer service hell: The women who answer the phone when you call Disney, Airbnb, Carnival and others.
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Tracking you with accelerometer signatures: Yet another latent unique identifier with horrifying consequences.
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Unauthorized cups: RFID-equipped disposable cups deny water to homeless people.
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#20yrsago How to help someone use a computer pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/h…
#20yrsago Declines in advertising in major magazines in the first six months of 2001 web.archive.org/web/2001071410…
#15yrsago Cingular threatens Consumerist over “how to discriminate” docs consumerist.com/consumer/cd/ci…
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#10yrsago Batman logo in equation form reddit.com/r/pics/comment…
#10yrsago Bill Nye explains to Fox News why lunar volcanoes don’t disprove anthropogenic global warming web.archive.org/web/2011092418…
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#10yrsago House Committee passes bill requiring your ISP to spy on every click and keystroke you make online and retain for 12 months eff.org/deeplinks/2011…
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#10yrsago Vindictive WalMart erroneously accuses couple of shoplifting, has husband deported, wife fired, costs them house and car web.archive.org/web/2011100210…
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#10yrsago Man with camera in park who fled angry parent sought by police (turns out he was taking pix of his grandson) web.archive.org/web/2011082905…
#10yrsago Copyright extortionist ripped off his competitor’s threatening material torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-la…
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#10yrsago US ISP/copyright deal: a one-sided private law for corporations, without public interest eff.org/deeplinks/2011…
#10yrsago Why they call the Tories “the nasty party” theguardian.com/uk/2011/jul/28…
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#5yrsago The Ice Bucket Challenge did not fund a breakthrough in ALS treatment healthnewsreview.org/2016/07/ice-bu…
#5yrsago Silicon Valley banks offer tech giants’ new hires 100% mortgages on 24 hours’ notice bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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#5yrsago RIP, MAD Magazines’s Jack Davis bbc.com/news/entertain…
#5yrsago Laurie Penny at the DNC: “Dissent will not be tolerated. Protest will not be permitted.” medium.com/welcome-to-the…
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#5yrsago North Carolina’s voter suppression law struck down as “racist” cnn.com/2016/07/29/pol…
#5yrsago Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calls Apple’s tax strategy a “fraud” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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#5yrsago Trump campaign frisks, then blocks ticketed Washington Post reporter at Pence rally washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w…
#5yrsago Pregnancy-tracking app was riddled with vulnerabilities, exposing extremely sensitive personal information consumerreports.org/mobile-securit…
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#1yrago Bitcoin is not a socialist's ally pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…
#1yrago No consequences for police violence at BLM actions pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…
#1yrago Let's force Big Tech to interoperate pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…
#1yrago Break 'Em Up pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…
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#1yrago Police "unions" are not unions pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…
#1yrago Snowden's Little Brother intro pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…
#1yrago Audible Exclusives pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…
#1yrago Mexican copyright crushes free speech pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…
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#1yrago Afterland pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…
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Tuesday's threads: What would a live concert album sound like with all the songs taken out?; The infosec apocalypse is nigh; 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:
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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…
* Keynote speaker, The Quills Conference, Aug 12-15
quillsconference.com
* From Wayback to Way Forward: The @InternetArchive turns 25, Oct 21
eventbrite.com/e/from-wayback…
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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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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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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), @GlennF, @Sophpsych, @TheBekku, @SeamusBellamy, @hipsterelectron and @aggrowill.
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