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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Jeremy Meyer's typewriter assemblages; HHS to pharma: stop bribing writing docs; The Attack Surface Lectures; Youtube-dl is back; Someone Comes to Town Part 23; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pil…

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I'm speaking on a panel at Kaspersky's Shaping the Digital Future Summit early tomorrow morning:

transparency.kaspersky.com/home

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Jeremy Meyer's typewriter assemblages: Symmetry is everything.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1328406358559866880

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HHS to pharma: stop bribing writing docs: No more cash-for-Rx.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1328421354442346496

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The Attack Surface Lectures: Part 1, Politics and Protest.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1328436723387224065

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Youtube-dl is back: EFF to the rescue!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1328448543338577920

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Someone Comes to Town Part 23: The latest in my podcast.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1328458960664289280

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#15yrsago Sony’s spyware “remover” creates huge security hole freedom-to-tinker.com/2005/11/15/son…

#15yrsago Sony issues non-apology for compromising your PC web.archive.org/web/2005112405…

#15yrsago Sory Electronics: Will Sony make amends for infecting our computers? web.archive.org/web/2005112500…

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#15yrsago Sony infects more than 500k networks, including military and govt web.archive.org/web/2006061405…

#15yrsago Sony’s rootkit uninstaller is *really* dangerous freedom-to-tinker.com/2005/11/14/don…

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#10yrsago New Calgary mayor sets bar for transparency with searchable vids and realtime audio streams of council meetings gordonmcdowell.com/20101108-yyc-c…

#10yrsago Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades nytimes.com/2015/11/14/boo…

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#1yrago Banned from Youtube, Chinese propagandists are using Pornhub to publish anti-Hong Kong videos qz.com/1747617/chines…

#1yrago Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? nybooks.com/articles/2019/…

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#1yrago “Hope literacy,” “functional denial” and other ways to keep going in this difficult time earthisland.org/journal/index.…

#1yrago Uber pretended its drivers were contractors, and now it owes New Jersey $650m in employment tax news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

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#1yrago Thanks to an article about why science fiction great John M Ford’s books are out of print, they’re coming back slate.com/culture/2019/1…

#1yrago Hong Kong protesters’ little stonehenges impede police cars

https://twitter.com/rhokilpatrick/status/1195350548062654465

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#1yrago The poorest half of Americans have nothing left, so now the 1%’s growth comes from the upper middle class wolfstreet.com/2019/11/13/how…

#1yrago US health care’s life-destroying “surprise bills” are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies theamericanconservative.com/articles/gouge…

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#1yrago Big Tech’s CEOs can’t possibly fix Big Tech medium.com/bloomberg-opin…

#1yrago Trump’s signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida propublica.org/article/supery…

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#1yrago Activists target Facebookers over “Gold Tier” sponsorship of Kavanaugh event theverge.com/2019/11/14/209…

#1yrago Hong Kong protests: “Might as well go down fighting” theatlantic.com/international/…

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Friday's threads: Big Car wants to pump the brakes on Right to Repair; How to Fix the Internet; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1327275733476020227

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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:

* Shaping the Digital Future Summit/Kaspersky, Nov 17, transparency.kaspersky.com/home

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

* Keynote, Cologne Futures, Nov 27, details TBD

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

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Recent appearances:

* Fully Charged: The future of energy over the next 300 years
fullycharged.show/podcasts/podca…

* Allen School Distinguished Lecture "Early Onset Oppenheimers"


* Author Stories Podcast


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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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