Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: It was all downhill after the Cuecat; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/20/ben…
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Catch me today (10/20) online at @LibraryJournal's Day of Dialog:
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#Montreal! On 10/23 I'm at @ArgoBookshop, 10/23:
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And #Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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It was all downhill after the Cuecat: On the origins of "user manipulation and surveillance."
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Hey look at this
* Creepy Ant Face Close-Up Haunts Nikon Small World Photo Contest cnet.com/science/creepy…
* How Ticketmaster Destroyed Live Music
* Teddy Roosevelt's Application to the Explorers Club flickr.com/photos/jurvets… 4/
#15yrsago @JesseBrown's radio show about gaming in China: propaganda, paranoia and gold-farming web.archive.org/web/2011092020…
#15yrsago Baseball players’ stats aren’t property espn.com/mlb/news/story… 5/
#15yrsago @GreatDismal on futurism, terrorism and other isms thetyee.ca/Books/2007/10/…
#15yrsago The Counterfeiters: superb concentration camp movie about the prisoners’ dilemma memex.craphound.com/2007/10/20/the… 6/
#15yrsago How the AP busted Comcast for blocking BitTorrent web.archive.org/web/2014042116…
#15yrsago Snitch-chips embedded in UK school’s uniforms archrights.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/chi…
#10yrsago Groucho meets Bradbury 7/
#10yrsago Identity thief’s amazing disguise fails to fool bank, toddlers web.archive.org/web/2012102023…
#10yrsago Coming to America: Six copyright accusations, lose your Internet arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 8/
#10yrsago Researcher claims feasibility of writing lethal wireless pacemaker viruses web.archive.org/web/2012101905…
#10yrsago Dutch government gives itself the right to break into your computer and destroy it bitsoffreedom.nl/2012/10/18/dut… 9/
#10yrsago Why casual sexism in science matters web.archive.org/web/2012102102…
#10yrsago Corruption in Arizona National Guard, from “bum-hunts” to sexual harassment huffpost.com/entry/national… 10/
#5yrsago NYPD has no backup for its seized property database, recording millions in annual seizures courthousenews.com/no-forfeiture-…
#5yrsago Leaked ICE forfeiture manual instructs agents to seize houses if they contain a phone implicated in crime theintercept.com/2017/10/13/ice… 11/
#5yrsago Mobile ad technique allows stalkers to follow you around a city for less than $1000 adint.cs.washington.edu/ADINT.pdf
#5yrsago Troubles loom for patent trolls who rent sovereign immunity from Native American tribes arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 12/
#5yrsago IRS to America: you were probably already doxed before the Equifaxpocalype, so don’t worry about it thehill.com/policy/cyberse… 13/
#5yrsago Two of the Chicago airport cops who beat up Dr David Dao got fired for lying about it (but not for the beating) consumerist.com/2017/10/18/two…
#5yrsago The Tories replaced benefits with “universal credit” and left a town to starve theguardian.com/society/2017/o… 14/
#5yrsago Viral Chinese mobile game requires players to “applaud” a speech by President Xi Jinping scmp.com/news/china/soc…
#5yrsago Quaker Apples & Cinnamon has “35% less sugar” because they’ve cut the portion size by 35%, while the price remains 100% reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuri… 15/
#5yrsago Apple brought back Braun design, but Google is bringing back Olivetti medium.com/s/story/google…
#5yrsago Facebook’s security is like a “college campus,” but they face threats like a “defense contractor” zdnet.com/article/leaked… 16/
#5yrsago @quinnnorton on sexual assault, community response, and restorative justice quinnnorton.medium.com/robert-scoble-…
#5yrsago Trump’s war on leakers has neutered the intelligence community’s whistleblower program, which diverts leakers foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/18/tur… 17/
#5yrsago Detailed anatomy of Wisconsin’s election-rigging, racist voter suppression motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
#1yrago The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/viz… 18/
#1yrago Copyleft lawsuit against Vizio will allow anyone to defend the commons pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/viz…
#1yrago The true, Terry Pratchett-esque origins of the trillion-dollar coin pluralistic.net/2021/10/19/moi… 19/
Tuesday's threads: Being good at your job is praxis; and more!
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from @BookSoup:
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My latest novel 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 ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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:
* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
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* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), 10/23
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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* Launch for xychelsea's "Readme.txt: A Memoir" (Bookshop.org), 10/26:
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
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* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepo…
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
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Recent appearances:
* Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (@lithub)
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* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use code "Doctorow" for a free month):
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* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)
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