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17 Nov, 4 tweets, 4 min read
Today in the Attack Surface Lectures - the 8 panels I ran with @torbooks and 8 indie bookstores to coincide with the release of the third Little Brother book in Oct: @jonrog1 and @amber_benson on Cross-Media SF, hosted by @booksmithtweets.



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If you'd prefer to watch without commercial surveillance, there's a mirror of this video on the @InternetArchive:

archive.org/details/asl-cr…

and here's an MP3 of just the audio:

archive.org/download/asl-c…

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I'm releasing an episode every day; yesterday's was Politics and Protest with @rondeibert and @evacide:

pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pil…

You can also get the audio every day through my podcast feed (search for "Cory Doctorow Podcast" or use the RSS):

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podca…

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Here's a master post with all the episodes as they're added:

craphound.com/news/2020/11/1…

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19 Nov
Alan Dean Foster is an sf legend - a writer who produced a shelf of original novels but also made a reputation novelizing movies and TV from Star Wars to Aliens, turning out books that transcended quickie adaptations, becoming beloved bestsellers in their own right.

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Disney now owns a bunch of these books, thanks to their acquisitions of Lucas and Fox, and these books continue to sell briskly. Disney not only isn't paying Foster any royalties for these books - they're refusing to even issue him royalty statements.

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18 Nov
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Race, surveillance and tech; The Mounties lied about social surveillance; Telehealth chickenizes docs; Canada's GDPR; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/18/alw…

#Pluralistic

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Race, surveillance and tech: The third Attack Surface lecture.



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The Mounties lied about social surveillance: They always get their self-serving rationalisations.



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18 Nov
Yesterday, Canadian Innovation Minister @NavdeepSBains introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act, which proposes a national privacy standard for Canada akin to Europe's #GDPR.

cbc.ca/news/politics/…

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The law is complex and will undergo many changes, but its two most salient features are:

I. The right to refuse to have your data collected and used; and

II. The right to have your data deleted if you change your mind.

With still penalties for companies that don't comply.

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The latter is self-explanatory, but the former is really interesting. Since the early days of packaged software, the tech industry has operated on the basis of a fictional consent: "By being stupid enough to be my customer (open this box, click this link, etc), you agree..."

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18 Nov
The "shitty technology adoption curve" describes the arc of oppressive technology: when you have a manifestly terrible idea, you can't ram it down the throats of rich, powerful people who get to say no. You have to find people whose complaints no one will listen to.

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So our worst tech ideas start out with prisoners, asylum seekers and mental patients, spread to children and blue collar workers, and ascend the privilege gradient to the wealthy and powerful as they are normalized and have their roughest corners sanded down.

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For example: If you ate your dinner under the unblinking gaze of a networked, remote-monitored video-camera 20 years ago, it was because you were in a supermax prison. Today, it's because you've been unwise enough to buy home cameras from Amazon, Google, or Apple.

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18 Nov
Today, on the Attack Surface Lectures - a series of 8 panels at 8 indie bookstores that @torbooks and I ran to launch the third Little Brother novel in Oct: Race, Surveillance, and Tech with @culturejedi and @mer__edith, hosted by @Booksmith.



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You can also watch this without Youtube surveillance on the @internetarchive:

archive.org/details/asl-in…

or listen to the audio as an MP3:

archive.org/download/asl-i…

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Earlier instalments in the series:

1. Politics and Protest (with @evacide and @RonDeibert, hosted by @strandbookstore):

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

2. Cross-Media Sci-Fi (with @amber_benson and @jonrog1, hosted by @booksmithtweets):

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

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