Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Gig workers around the globe; Mutual Aid and David Graeber; Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kro…
#Pluralistic
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CORRECTION: Yesterday's edition erroneously described the Framework laptop as the first system to receive a 10/10 from Ifixit. A few other laptops have received this rating. I regret the error.
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Gig workers around the globe: One disease, many pathologies.
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Mutual Aid and David Graeber: A new, illustrated edition of Kropotkin's masterpiece, with an introduction from the great, much-missed hero of Occupy.
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Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news: Orwell was an optimist.
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#15yrsago Rented AT&T home phone cost elderly woman $2,000 over 40 years usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2…
#15yrsago French DRM activists surrender to police web.archive.org/web/2007011018…
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#10yrsago Cost of raising middle-income child in USA increases by 40% over ten years money.cnn.com/2011/09/21/pf/…
#5yrsago HTML standardization group calls on W3C to protect security researchers from DRM eff.org/deeplinks/2016…
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#5yrsago I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise memex.craphound.com/2016/09/22/i-h…
#5yrsago China’s elites appear to be exfiltrating billions while on holidays bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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#5yrsago Wells Fargo fired the whistleblowers who reported massive fraud, and that’s a crime money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/inv…
#5yrsago Phoebe and her unicorn are back in Razzle Dazzle Unicorn! memex.craphound.com/2016/09/22/pho…
#1yrago Facebook threatens to leave EU pluralistic.net/2020/09/22/unc…
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#1yrago Uber for evicting people pluralistic.net/2020/09/22/unc…
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Yesterday's threads: The Actual Star; Ignore career advice from established writers; The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever used; 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."
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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:
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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:
* From Wayback to Way Forward: The @InternetArchive turns 25, Oct 21
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* Keynote for @SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
seagl.org/news/2021/06/0…
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Recent appearances:
* Infosec Apocaylpse (We're In podcast)
were-in.simplecast.com/episodes/cory-…
* Walled Culture
* Poesy the Monster Slayer, Turn the Page
turnthepage.blubrry.net/2021/09/02/tur…
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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 - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
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My latest Medium column is "Everything is Always Broken, and That’s Okay," about the importance of interoperability to self-determination:
doctorow.medium.com/everything-is-…
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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: @Learningpillars (twitter.com/LearningPillars).
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