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22 Oct, 22 tweets, 17 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: IDing anonymized cops with facial recognition; ENDSARS; Companies target robots in disclosures; US border cruelty, powered by Google cloud; Free the law of Wisconsin; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/22/the…

#Pluralistic

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Today's Attack Surface Lecture: OpSec & Personal Cyber-Security: How Can You Be Safe?

With @runasand and @window

eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctoro…

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IDing anonymized cops with facial recognition: Privacy for the powerless, transparency for the powerful.



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ENDSARS: Global protests over Nigeria's murdering special police.



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Companies target robots in disclosures: Sentiment analysis is finally useful for something.



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US border cruelty, powered by Google cloud: IBM at Auschwitz.



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Free the law of Wisconsin: Carl Malamud wants you to read Wisconsin's jury instructions.



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#5yrsago Fable Comics: anthology of great comics artists telling fables from around the world memex.craphound.com/2015/10/22/fab…

#5yrsago Son of Dieselgate: second line of VWs may have used “defeat devices” web.archive.org/web/2015102220…

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#5yrsago DHS admits it uses Stingrays for VIPs, vows to sometimes get warrants, stop lying to judges arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago Half of Vanuatu’s government is going to jail theguardian.com/world/2015/oct…

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#5yrsago Obama administration petitions judge for no mercy in student debt bankruptcy readersupportednews.org/news-section2/…

#1yrago Margaret Atwood’s “The Testaments”: a long-awaited Handmaid’s Tale sequel fulfills its promise memex.craphound.com/2019/10/22/mar…

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#1yrago Materiality: a new science fiction story for the Oslo Architecture Triennale about sustainable, green abundance ia803101.us.archive.org/16/items/Cory_…

#1yrago Ernst and Young subjected women employees to “training” about keeping the company’s men happy huffpost.com/entry/women-er…

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#1yrago NJ school district bans indebted students from prom and field trips, refuses offer to pay off lunch debt inquirer.com/education/scho…

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Yesterday's threads: Comedic obituary poetry; Tom Lehrer in the public domain; Trustbusting is stimulus; Falsehoods programmers believe about time; and more!



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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Fantasy and Dystopia with @kadrey, @Litquake, Oct 23, eventbrite.com/e/fantasy-and-…

* @MileHiCon (Guest of Honor!), Oct 23-5, milehicon.org

* Coding Democracy with @maureenwebb for @festofauthors Oct 24 festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-…

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Recent appearances:

* TWiT: The J to J Protocol
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…

* Writing Excuses: Researching the FCK out of Things
writingexcuses.com/2020/10/11/15-…

* SRSLY WRONG: Stop Techno Dystopia!
srslywrong.com/podcast/220-st…

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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 Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2020/10/22/the…

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If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🥽". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's top sources: Four Short Links (oreilly.com/feed/four-shor…, Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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24 Oct
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Davis Haunters rise from the grave; RIAA kills youtube-dl; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/24/120…

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This weekend's events:

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Toronto International Festival of Authors (Sat): festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-…

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Davis Haunters rise from the grave: Oregon's Hallowe'en is saved.



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24 Oct
In 1998, Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. At the time, most of the attention was on Section 512 - AKA "notice and takedown," which absolves platforms from liability for users' infringement provided they respond quickly to removal demands.

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Over the years, this has been horrifically abused, with everyone from post-Soviet dictators to sexual predators to cults and literal Nazis using spurious copyright claims to censor their critics, often without consequence.

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But the real ticking time-bomb in the DMCA is Section 1201, the "anti-circumvention" rule, which makes it a felony (punishing by a 5-year prison sentence and a $500k fine) to help people tamper with "access controls" that restrict copyrighted works.

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24 Oct
The Davis Graveyard is a Portland, Oregon treasure: a family run, nonprofit annual haunt that is indescribably ambitious, spooky and brilliantly executed.

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The Davises have been serving their city for more than a decade, but in Sept they announced that they would not be putting on a show this year, due to the risk of exacerbating the pandemic. It was a heartbreak, but it was also the right call.

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But this story has a happy ending. The Clackamas County Scare Fair is a 20-30 minute drive-through, pandemic-safe haunt with a soundtrack broadcast on low-power FM radio, and the Davis Haunt has been integrated into it!

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24 Oct
The area below NYC's Union Square was once called "Book Row" - a six-block stretch boasting nearly 40 bookstores, many of them used and rare bookdealers. Today, the sole survivor is @strandbookstore, whose "18 miles of books" encompass new, used, rare and academic books.

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The Strand is a family owned business, now in its sixth generation. Like America's other great multigenerational bookselling dynasties - thinking of @WellerBookWorks in SLC - the sense of holy mission and history pervades the store.

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23 Oct
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Student loans are dischargeable; Cracking the Ghislaine Maxwell redactions; Bring back the CCC; Foxconn out-trumped Trump; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/23/fox…

#Pluralistic

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This weekend's events:

@MileHiCon (Fri/Sat/Sun): milehicon.org

@Litquake with @Richard_Kadrey (Fri): eventbrite.com/e/fantasy-and-…

Toronto International Festival of Authors/@festofauthors (Sat): festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-…

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Student loans are dischargeable: Billions in debt can be flushed away.



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23 Oct
In 2017, Donald Trump declared victory. Working with the far-right Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, he had brokered a deal to bring high-tech manufacturing jobs back to America, with a new, massive Foxconn plant that would anchor the new Wisconn Valley.

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Right away, there were three serious, obvious problems.

I. Foxconn are crooks. It's not just the Apple device factories where they drive workers to suicide, it's a long history of promising to build massive factories, absorbing billions in subsidies, and then bailing.

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It's a con they'd already pulled in Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil and in Pennsylvania. The US heist happened only four years before the Wisconsin deal (which offered $4b in subsidies!) was signed.

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