Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Podcasting "Managing aggregate demand"; The 22 Murders of Madison May; When your boss wants an AI camera in your bedroom; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/09/com…
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I'm a guest of honor and keynote speaker at Salt Lake City's Quills Conference on writing, Aug 12-15:
quillsconference.com
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Podcasting "Managing aggregate demand": What antitrust law tells us about the moral way to cope with demand that outstrips supply.
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The 22 Murders of Madison May: Max Barry's existential interdimensional crime thriller.
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When your boss wants an AI camera in your bedroom: "Work from home" is really "live at work."
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#20yrsago AI researchers unveil a software robot that they claim can write news stories theguardian.com/uk/2001/aug/09…
#15yrsago Robot garage loses software license, strands parkers web.archive.org/web/2006081220…
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#15yrsago HOWTO photoshop a house into a haunted mansion web.archive.org/web/2006110702…
#15yrsago Canadian librarians decry “Captain Copyright” web.archive.org/web/2006081300…
#10yrsago Canadian scholars & public interest groups oppose Canada’s Internet spying law web.archive.org/web/2011081023…
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#10yrsago Lev Grossman’s The Magician King memex.craphound.com/2011/08/09/lev…
#5yrsago Proof-of-concept ransomware for smart thermostats demoed at Defcon pentestpartners.com/security-blog/…
#5yrsago How racist traffic stops criminalize black people, and what to do about it vox.com/2016/8/5/12364…
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#5yrsago Chicago cops switched off bodycams and high-fived after shooting unarmed black teen theroot.com/chicago-police…
#5yrsago Return of Dieselgate: 3 more hidden programs found in VW Audi/Porsche firmware reuters.com/article/us-vol…
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#5yrsago Your medical data: misappropriated by health-tech companies, off-limits to you wired.com/2016/02/our-me…
#5yrsago Illegal “Warranty Void If Removed” still ubiquitous: they’re on the Xbox One S vice.com/en/article/yp3…
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#5yrsago Mysterious medical research consortium: we should own volunteers’ clinical trial data for 5 years techdirt.com/articles/20160…
#1yrago Commercial real-estate's looming collapse pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/jus…
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#1yrago Test-proctoring software worsens systemic bias pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/jus…
#1yrago Jailed for pen-testing pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…
#1yrago Free the law pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…
#1yrago Google bans anticompetitive vocabularies pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…
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#1yrago Peter Thiel was right pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…
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Saturday's threads: Doordash privacywashes its war on workers; End bankruptcy shopping; 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:
* Keynote speaker, The Quills Conference, Aug 12-15
quillsconference.com
* Launch for @Ben_Rosenbaum's The Unraveling, Aug 23 (@Booksoup)
booksoup.com/event/benjamin…
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Recent appearances:
* Privacy Without Monopoly (@Defcon)
* Building the Digital Commons (@moneyontheleft)
moneyontheleft.org/2021/08/01/bui…
* Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset…
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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/2021/08/09/com…
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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 "Expectations management," part five of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.
doctorow.medium.com/expectations-m…
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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: Super Punch (superpunch.net).
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