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…

#Pluralistic

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This weekend's events:

Milehicon (Fri/Sat/Sun): milehicon.org

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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RIAA kills youtube-dl: Everything not forbidden is mandatory.



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#5yrsago Globe and Mail: TPP’s copyright chapter will cost Canadians hundreds of millions theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor…

#1yrago BBC launches a Tor hidden service mirror to help people evade their countries’ censoring firewalls web.archive.org/web/2019102512…

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#1yrago The Youtubers’ union just wants Google to give them the rulebook wired.com/story/youtube-…

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



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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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

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

* Coding Democracy/Toronto International Festival of Authors, Oct 24 festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-…

* Keynote, Privacyweek, Oct 27 cfp.privacyweek.at/pw20/speaker/L…

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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!

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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: Dan Howland (twitter.com/ridetheory/).

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