Thread by @doctorow

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…

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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.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1319669347070013442

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Cracking the Ghislaine Maxwell redactions: An interesting variation on an old theme.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1319678254211493889

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Bring back the CCC: Towards a Job Guarantee.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1319686165386063872

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Foxconn out-trumped Trump: And Wisconsin paid the price.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1319699270518206464

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#15yrsago Technorati indexes 20 millionth blog epeus.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_epe…

#5yrsago DoJ to Apple: your software is licensed, not sold, so we can force you to decrypt ia801501.us.archive.org/27/items/gov.u…

#5yrsago Botnets running on CCTVs and NASs imperva.com/blog/cctv-ddos…

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#5yrsago Astounding showpiece table full of hidden compartments nested in hidden compartments ctfinefurniture.com

#5yrsago Investing in David v Goliath: hundreds of millions slosh into litigation finance funds nytimes.com/2015/10/25/mag…

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#5yrsago Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is the next book you should read memex.craphound.com/2015/10/23/ta-…

#5yrsago Antioxidants protect cancer cells, help tumors to spread arstechnica.com/science/2015/1…

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#5yrsago 70% of CEOs’ effect on company performance can be attributed to random chance onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

#5yrsago FCC trying to stop phone companies that rip off prisoners’ families bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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#1yrago A visual history of Soviet anti-religious artwork theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

#1yrago When the HR department is a robotic phrenologist: “face-scanning algorithm” gains popularity as a job-applicant screener washingtonpost.com/technology/201…

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#1yrago Japanese robot hotel chain ignored repeated warnings that its in-room “bed-facing” robots could be turned into spy devices tokyoreporter.com/business/robot…

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#1yrago You Must Remember This podcast returns to tell the secret history of Disney’s most racist movie, Song of the South youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2019/…

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#1yrago NYT abruptly eliminates its “director of information security” position:

https://twitter.com/runasand/status/1186775481615605760

#1yrago Edtech spyware to school boards: hire us to spy on your kids and we’ll help you sabotage teachers’ strikes qz.com/1318758/school…

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Yesterday's threads: 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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1319312823428608006

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: darkdel.com/store/p1840/Av…

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

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

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

* Coding Democracy/Toronto International Festival of Authors, 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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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Lowering the Bar (loweringthebar.net)

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