Thread by @doctorow

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…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329044361418424322

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1328823199681843202

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Telehealth chickenizes docs: And hurts patients (but it's great for investors!).

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329080653460062219

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Canada's GDPR: Down with fictional consent!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329090833925115915

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#15yrsago Brit backpackers take Indian call-centre jobs web.archive.org/web/2005121010…

#10yrsago Canadian Heritage Minister inadvertently damns his own copyright bill michaelgeist.ca/2010/11/moore-…

#5yrsago CEOs are lucky, tall men hbr.org/2015/11/are-su…

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#1yrago Podcast: Jeannette Ng Was Right, John W. Campbell Was a Fascist ia803108.us.archive.org/19/items/Cory_…

#1yrago Beyond antitrust: the anti-monopoly movement and what it stands for onezero.medium.com/the-utah-state…

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I'm giving a keynote (in a few minutes!) ("Monopolies, not mind-control") at the Data Natives conference today:

datanatives.io/conference/sch…

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Yesterday's threads: Cross-Media Sci-Fi with Amber Benson and John Rogers; Storage Wars; Embedded machine learning; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1328717309230211072

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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:

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

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

* Keynote, Cologne Futures, Nov 27, details TBD

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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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Today's top sources: Evan Kirstel (twitter.com/EvanKirstel), Slashdot (slashdot.org)

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