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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#15yrsago Science shouldn’t use copyright to silence Creationists web.archive.org/web/2005103102…

#5yrsago The two brilliant, prescient 20th century science fiction novels you should read this election season memex.craphound.com/2015/10/28/the…

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#5yrsago Modular spiral staircase system for trees canopystair.com

#5yrsago The more unequal your society is, the more your laws will favor the rich america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/…

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#1yrago The penniless hero of the ransomware epidemic has written more decryptors than anyone else propublica.org/article/the-ra…

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Yesterday's threads: Ferris wheel fine dining; Monopolies Suck; The president's extraordinary powers; Comcast v Comcast; Surveillance startup protected sexual harassers; 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:

* How to Fix the Internet/Reboot 2020, Nov 9, rebootconference.org/day-two

* Cyberterrorists, Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes, and Were-Pomeranians/Texas Book Festival, Nov 12, texasbookfestival.org/events/cyberte…

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Recent appearances:

* The Gould Standard:
glenngould.ca/thegouldstanda…

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

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

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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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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: Boing Boing (boingboing.net), Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Amazon says only corporations own property; Violent cops' deadly victim complex; Sue your medical bully; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/29/vic…

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Amazon says only corporations own property: Everyone else is a licensor.



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Violent cops' deadly victim complex: Murderers hiding behind victims' rights laws.



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One of my favorite podcasts is @armandalegshow, a show about self-defense from medical billing in the US health care system. As a Canadian in the US, I often feel gaslit by the system, as my doctors and their offices act as though predatory, disgusting practices are natural.

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Arm and a Leg documents these unethical practices in eye-watering detail, making it clear at ever turn that these are Not Okay, and that they are victimizing the American people, and must be overturned. And, in the meantime, they focus on practical ways to protect yourself.

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Marsy's Law is a model victim's rights law that many states have adopted (it's on the ballot in Kentucky next week), often at the behest of law enforcement agencies that argue for the right to anonymity for the victims of crimes.

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But Marsy's Law is so broadly worded that one of its primary uses is to shield violent cops - even those who kill - from public scrutiny, as @USATODAY's @kennyjacoby and @propublica's @ryangabrielson write today.

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If you visit Amazon's Prime Video homepage, you'll see that the title of that page is "Rent or Buy: Prime Video." There's a plain-language meaning of "buy" that most of us understand, but Amazon says we're wrong.

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Amanda Caudel is a Prime user who brought suit against Amazon for embedding a gotcha clause in its sprawling terms of service that allows it to revoke the videos you "buy" from it, calling the practice deceptive.

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Amazon's motion to dismiss is telling: they say that you're not buying a video, you're buying a license for "on-demand viewing over an indefinite period of time." That is, a pig in a poke.

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