Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Ferris wheel fine dining; Monopolies Suck; The president's extraordinary powers; Comcast v Comcast; Surveillance startup protected sexual harassers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea…

#Pluralistic

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I'm giving a talk at Privacyweek Austria today!

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Ferris wheel fine dining: First the Budapest Eye, next, the world!



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Monopolies Suck: There is nothing harder to kill than an idea whose time has come to pass.



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The president's extraordinary powers: Congress handed the president emergency powers for centuries and never took them back (uh-oh).



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Comcast v Comcast: Which is weird, because Universal owns Comcast.



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Surveillance startup protected sexual harassers: Willingness to surveil is correlated with sociopathy.



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#15yrsago Counting Heads: exciting, major new sf novel memex.craphound.com/2005/10/27/cou…

#15yrsago Build a gingerbread Phantom Manor from Disneyland Paris haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/index506.html

#10yrsago HOWTO explain the Internet to a Dickensian street urchin fastcompany.com/1697711/flowch…

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#5yrsago Librarian of Congress grants limited DRM-breaking rights for cars, games, phones, tablets, and remixers eff.org/deeplinks/2015…

#5yrsago Ministry of Irony: Orwell estate tries to censor mentions of the number 1984 torrentfreak.com/orwell-estate-…

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#5yrsago Elite “wealth managers”: Renfields to the one percent bloodsuckers theatlantic.com/business/archi…

#1yrago Navy Yard worker outed by Unicorn Riot is indicted for lying to the FBI about his white nationalist group memberships inquirer.com/news/vanguard-…

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#1yrago Indigenous elder on Sidewalk Labs’s Toronto consultation: “like being given blankets and gun powder and whisky to trade for our participation” thestar.com/news/gta/2019/…

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Yesterday's threads: Phone surveillance, made in Canada; Chile restores democratic rule; Someone Comes to Town, Part 20; 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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* Misinformation and Disinformation in Science Fiction and Fantasy/LITA, Nov 17, details TBD

* Keynote, Data Natives, Nov 18, datanatives.io/tickets/

* Keynote, Cologne Futures, Nov 20, details TBD

* Keynote, Cybersummit 2020, Nov 26 cybera.ca/cyber-summit-2…

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Recent appearances:

* Attack Surface: A Reckoning
draxfiles.com/2020/10/26/sho…

* 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-…

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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…
Today's top sources: Dan Howland (twitter.com/ridetheory/), Super Punch (superpunch.net), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: RIAA's war on youtube-dl; Trump abandons supporters to freeze; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/28/tru…

#Pluralistic

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RIAA's war on youtube-dl: The rise of the resistance.



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Trump abandons supporters to freeze: More death cult shit.



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When the plague started, Trumpism's thought-leaders rushed to advise the elderly voters who constitute its base that they should engage in high-risk conduct:

pluralistic.net/2020/04/04/a-m…

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pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/rio…

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