Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Daycare apps are insecure surveillance dumpster-fires; and more!
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Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.
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Daycare apps are insecure surveillance dumpster-fires: Apps are like software, only worse.
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Hey look at this
* The Jovian Duck: LaMDA and the Mirror Test rifters.com/crawl/?p=10269
* Taking the 6th edition of Car Wars for a test drive boingboing.net/2022/06/21/tak…
* Agnes Giberne's The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (1898) publicdomainreview.org/collection/sto… 4/
#15yrsago Open Source Consortium to regulators: Stop the BBC’s DRM! web.archive.org/web/2007021006…
#15yrsago Broadcast Treaty wounded and dying! web.archive.org/web/2007062610…
#15yrsago Podcasting @BruceS's "Hacker Crackdown" craphound.com/news/2007/06/2… 5/
#10yrsago St Colin and the Dragon: great torn paper kids’ comic memex.craphound.com/2012/06/22/st-…
#10yrsago EFF joins the defense in Charles Carreon v. The Whole Goddamned Internet eff.org/press/releases…
#10yrsago @BruceS interviewed about the New Aesthetic web.archive.org/web/2012062607… 6/
#10yrsago Top US drug cop can’t tell the difference between marijuana and heroin web.archive.org/web/2012062413…
#10yrsago Science fiction in Africa bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00…
#5yrsago A Chinese vitamin MLM cult is replacing healthcare for poor Ugandans web.archive.org/web/2020092511… 7/
#5yrsago For the first time, Jeremy Corbyn overtakes Theresa May in UK polls independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
#5yrsago US Copyright Office recommends sweeping, welcome changes to America’s DRM laws vice.com/en/article/d3z… 8/
#5yrsago Crowdfunding a pro-vaccination bus to follow the anti-vaxxer bus gofundme.com/f/craigs-prova…
#5yrsago Canada: Trump shows us what happens when “good” politicians demand surveillance powers cbc.ca/2017/what-happ… 9/
#5yrsago A DRM-locked, $400 tea-brewing machine from the Internet of Shit timeline gizmodo.com/a-400-smart-te…
#5yrsago John Oliver dared a coal exec to sue him, and now he’s being sued washingtonpost.com/news/morning-m… 10/
#5yrsago Tumblr is now owned by a phone company, so it’s stopped fighting for Network Neutrality theverge.com/2017/6/21/1581…
#5yrsago A history of artist Anish Kapoor and his assholic mission to own the color black wired.com/story/vantabla… 11/
#1yrago Peloton bricks its treadmills pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vap…
#1yrago Juul's junk science pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vap…
#1yrago Improving the #ACCESSAct: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vap… 12/
Monday's threads: The sex industry isn't technophilic; Schroedinger's streaming service just died; 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:
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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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Recent appearances:
* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669
* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event…
* Privacy is the New Celebrity
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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… 19/
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