Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs themselves; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/14/sti…
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Tomorrow (Monday) at 2PM PT, I'm chairing a webinar for ACM-USTPC called "Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology"
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Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs themselves: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product.
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#10yrsago Stolen government of Malaysia certificate used to sign malicious fake Adobe software update archive.f-secure.com/weblog/archive…
#10yrsago Chapel Hill sends SWAT team to arrest Occupy “anarchists” web.archive.org/web/2011111413… 4/
#10yrsago Secret documents reveal the flimsy case for Ofcom to give into BBC’s public TV DRM demands theguardian.com/technology/201…
#5yrsago Anish Kapoor banned from using world’s pinkest pink in retaliation for hoarding the blackest black vice.com/en/article/4xq… 5/
#5yrsago Remember when they told us Hillary, not Bernie, would beat Trump? fair.org/home/polls-sho…
#5yrsago Keep hoping machine running: Woody Guthrie’s New Years resolutions, 1943 memex.craphound.com/2016/11/14/kee… 6/
Yesterday's threads: How to be safe(r) online; and more!
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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at @darkdel:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 8/
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:
* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-@USTPC), Nov 15
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Upcoming appearances:
* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA: How to protect free expression, create competition and empower users all at once (@Article19org)
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Upcoming appearances:
* Launch for @happierman and @J9andIf's "You Feel It Just Below the Ribs" (@Keplers), Nov 18
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* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego @Comic_Con), Nov 28
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Recent appearances:
* @BridgeTales:
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* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):
* Making Money (@DIDiscworld)
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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… 15/
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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. 17/
My latest @Medium column is "Bait and Switch: Capitalism’s Shell Game: From Robert Bork to John Deere"
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.
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Today's top sources: @Slashdot (slashdot.org). 22/
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