Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Epson boobytrapped its printers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/08/07/ink…
#Pluralistic 1/
Next Sat (Aug 13), I'm co-presenting a program item at @Defcon (Las Vegas) called "Literal Self-Pwning: Why Patients - and Their Advocates - Should Be Encouraged to Hack, Improve, and Mod Med Tech" with @CDameffMD & @jefftullymd:
forum.defcon.org/node/242205 2/
Epson boobytrapped its printers: "For your protection."
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Hey look at this
* @superwuster, Biden’s Anti-Big Tech Adviser, Has Been Living the Dream wired.com/story/plaintex…
* The FAA Wants To Know How Small YOU Think Plane Seats Should Be simpleflying.com/faa-minimum-se…
* Angry teacher rant reddit.com/r/LateStageCap… 4/
#10yrsago @NealStephenson’s Some Remarks, a remarkable essay collection memex.craphound.com/2012/08/07/nea…
#10yrsago If Hemingway (and Shakespeare, and co) were coders byfat.xxx/if-hemingway-w…
#20yrsago Ben Franklin, hax0r web.archive.org/web/2002021604… 5/
#5yrsago Five reasons to play D&D grimmwisdom.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/5-r…
#10yrsago Science fiction grand master Jack Vance rockin’ a uke and a kazoo 6/
#5yrsago Amazon is the poster child for everything wrong with post-Reagan anti-trust enforcement yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-a…
#5yrsago “Adversarial perturbations” reliably trick AIs about what kind of road-sign they’re seeing arxiv.org/pdf/1707.08945… 7/
#5yrsago Real-estate speculators bought the road and sidewalk in a gated wealthy San Francisco enclave sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier…
#1yrago End bankruptcy shopping: No more Sacklers, ever pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-… 8/
#1yrago Doordash privacywashes its war on workers pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-…
#1yrago Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get…
#1yrago Scammers sell griefers social media banning services pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get… 9/
Friday's threads: Uber's still not profitable; 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… 11/
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… 12/
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:
* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
defcon.org/html/defcon-30…
* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), Sept 21-24
live.unfinished.com 14/
Recent appearances:
* DRM Secretly Polices You (@dtnsshow)
dailytechnewsshow.com/2022/07/29/drm…
* Bricking Tractors (Inside Agri-Turf)
inside-agriturf.captivate.fm/episode/bricki…
* Blockchain, Bitcoin & Selling The Brooklyn Bridge (@MMTPodcast):
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/135-cory-docto… 15/
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… 16/
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