Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: A modest proposal to fix contracts; and more!
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This 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/
A modest proposal to fix contracts: Rescuing contracts from sprawling garbage legalese novellas masquerading as "agreements."
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Hey look at this
* 20 Years Of Copyright Wars gizmodo.com/cory-doctorow-…
* The Prompt Whisperer interconnected.org/home/2022/08/0… (h/t Monique van Dusseldorp)
* TikTok is quietly “shadow-promoting” content banned after Ukraine invasion tracking.exposed/pdf/PR-tiktok-… 4/
#20yrsago @EdFelten's new "Freedom to Tinker" blog freedom-to-tinker.com
#20yrsago CEA regrets the DMCA but fails to oppose DMCA successor web.archive.org/web/2002080501…
#20yrsago Get Your Exx On web.archive.org/web/2002081314… 5/
#15yrsago Alice in Sunderland: the weirdest graphic novel I’ve ever enjoyed memex.craphound.com/2007/08/09/ali…
#15yrsago @CBC blogging policy isn’t their policy web.archive.org/web/2007101709…
#15yrsago How AT&T fought for privacy — 80 years ago web.archive.org/web/2007090709… 6/
#15yrsago @UMG goes DRM-free nytimes.com/2007/08/10/bus…
#15yrsago Plastic bags are devourng the planet salon.com/2007/08/10/pla…
#15yrsago French kid who translated Potter 7 faces charges memex.craphound.com/2007/08/10/fre… 7/
#15yrsago Venetian merchants have tourist and “rude-tourist” prices web.archive.org/web/2008021422…
#10yrsago UK prisons to open outsource call centres; @David_Cameron urges business to switch to prison labour theguardian.com/society/2012/a… 8/
#10yrsago Toronto to host real-life flamethrower game based on Street Fighter II joeydevilla.com/2012/08/09/sup…
#10yrsago @VirginAustralia moved firefighter from seat next to boys because men can’t be seated next to unaccompanied children freerangekids.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/man… 9/
#10yrsago How do we make web stuff that’s secure enough for human rights workers? web.archive.org/web/2014041610…
#10yrsago France’s batshit #HADOPI copyright law on life-support; three strikes is dying eff.org/deeplinks/2012…
#10yrsago Diaper-box AT-AT web.archive.org/web/2012080305… 10/
#10yrsago Former @MPAA CTO who switched sides explains to the White House why #SOPA is stupid techdirt.com/2012/08/08/for…
#10yrsago Mexican-US illegal migration has been largely static since the 1950s paw.princeton.edu/article/crisis… 11/
#10yrsago Slick anti-corruption video takes on US copyright system arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#10yrsago Chinese cops treat kidnapping as a routine form of largely acceptable debt-collection foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/08/chi… 12/
#5yrsago Foxconn has a long history of lying about its plans to open plants and create jobs nakedcapitalism.com/2017/08/foxcon…
#5yrsago India censors access to the @InternetArchive’s Wayback Machine indiatoday.in/technology/new… 13/
#5yrsago India lost access to the @InternetArchive because two Bollywood studios couldn’t be bothered with takedowns torrentfreak.com/internet-archi…
#5yrsago Man, cops sure do love calling their surveillance programs “Skynet” vice.com/en/article/qvv… 14/
#5yrsago Acting Madly: the secret history of the lost MAD-alike magazines of the satire boom memex.craphound.com/2017/08/10/act…
#5yrsago Blackwater founder and DeVos war-criminal sibling Trump should install merc-backed viceroy in Afghanistan democracynow.org/2017/8/9/at_ur… 15/
#5yrsago You can hijack a gene sequencer by hiding malware in a DNA sample web.archive.org/web/2017082907…
#5yrsago @FCC will fix America’s shitty internet by declaring fast internet access unimportant to Americans arstechnica.com/information-te… 16/
#5yrsago Detailed analysis of the hyper-partisan @Facebook “news” business buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs…
#5yrsago Every meeting and trip the FCC’s neutricidal chairman Ajit Pai took since Trump’s inauguration web.archive.org/web/2017081107… 17/
#1yrago End of the line for @Uber: Accounting tricks and tech gimmickry don't matter when the coffers are empty pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unt…
#1yrago When your boss wants an AI camera in your bedroom pluralistic.net/2021/08/09/com… 18/
#1yrago The 22 Murders of Madison May: @MaxBarry's existential interdimensional crime thriller pluralistic.net/2021/08/09/com… 19/
Monday's threads: Podcasting "So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me"; 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… 21/
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… 22/
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/ 23/
Upcoming appearances:
* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
defcon.org/html/defcon-30…
* Launch for @Motherboard's Terraform anthology, @Vice offices (Los Angeles), Aug 18
eventbrite.com/e/terraform-bo… 24/
Upcoming appearances:
* Radical Interoperability: An Internet Disassembly Manual, Aug 29 15h (@BurningMan Center Camp)
* Chokepoint Capitalism: a Better Deal for Creative Labor, Aug 30, 13h (@BurningMan @PalenqueNorte, 915 and B) 25/
Upcoming appearances:
* Interview with @BunnieStudios on the Precursor and Trusting Trust, Aug 31, 12h (@BurningMan Liminal Labs, 945 and Rod's)
* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), Sept 21-24
live.unfinished.com 26/
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… 27/
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… 28/
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