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19 Nov, 5 tweets, 6 min read
Today on the Attack Surface Lectures (a series of 8 panels exploring themes from the third Little Brother book, hosted by @torbooks and 8 indie bookstores)r: Cyberpunk & Post-Cyberpunk with @NB_Chris & @bruces, which @AndersonsBkshp hosted on Oct 19.



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You can watch it without Youtube's surveillance courtesy of the @internetarchive:

archive.org/details/asl-cy…

Or get the audio as an MP3:

archive.org/download/asl-c…

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Earlier instalments in the series:

I. Politics and Protest (with @evacide and @rondeibert, hosted by @strandbookstore):

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

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

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

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III. Race, Surveillance, and Tech with @culturejedi
and @mer__edith, hosted by @Booksmith

craphound.com/attacksurface/…

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Here's a master post with all the media as it is goes live:

craphound.com/news/2020/11/1…

And you can also get this as it's posted on my podcast feed - search for "Cory Doctorow podcast" in your podcatcher or use the RSS:

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podca…

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

Inside: Little Revolutions; Russian Cyberpunk Farm; We're already (badly) forgiving student debt; Facebook bullies watchdog; Google's monopoly rigged the ad market; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/20/sov…

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Little Revolutions: Bethany C Morrow and Tochi Onyebuchi on the Attack Surface Lectures.



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Russian Cyberpunk Farm: Superb comedy-dystopia in a russo-futuristic vein.



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20 Nov
The quest to bring antitrust law to bear against tech companies is finally paying off, but it's been a long, hard slog. At the vanguard have been two legal scholars: Columbia law's @linamkhan and Yale's @DinaSrinivasan.

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The first watershed moment was Khan's Jan 2017 Yale Law Review paper "Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox," which laid the groundwork for understanding the inadequacies of Ronald-Reagan-style antitrust for tackling platform capitalism.

yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-a…

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In Sep 2018, Srinivasan went one better with her Berkeley Business Law Review paper "The Antitrust Case Against Facebook," which made a compelling case that even under the narrow antitrust Reagan created, Facebook was still an illegal monopolist.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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20 Nov
Today, @WIRED ran my op-ed about @Facebook's war on #AdObservatory, an @nyuniversity project that enlists users to gather the ads FB serves so researchers and accountability journalists can measure how FB is living up to its promises on paid disinfo.

wired.com/story/facebook…

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Facebook is really bad at keeping its promises. At a moment in which paid disinformation on social media threatens the integrity of US elections and the credibility of US democracy, FB threatened to destroy a watchdog that documents FB's failures to live up to its promises.

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FB is waging a two-front war on the scrappy academics who run this project: first, there are the legal threats (which depend on very shaky legal ground), and then there's a disinformation campaign that smears these academics and their work.

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20 Nov
Forgiving US student debt is a no-brainer: as a nation, America has saddled its best-educated young people with a lifetime of debt whose interest serves the parasitic rentier economy while suppressing their ability to use those education to our collective benefit.

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The pathetic argument that opponents have mustered is that forgiving student debt is unfair to the people who paid off their debts through sacrifice and hard work - in the same way that a covid treatment is unfair to people who recovered through sheer immunoresponse.

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In his analysis, "The Student Debt Crisis is a Crisis of Non-Repayment," @Econ_Marshall demonstrates the hollowness of this objection. First, he observes that we are already forgiving student debt, at unprecedented levels, in the worst way possible.

phenomenalworld.org/analysis/crisi…

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20 Nov
Birchpunk's brilliant debut video is "RUSSIAN CYBERPUNK FARM // РУССКАЯ КИБЕРДЕРЕВНЯ," a 4:30 comedo-dystopian design fiction in the form of a recruiting ad for a futuristic Russian roboticized farm.



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It packs about a million gags into a very short space: not just janky, rural, Russian junkbots, but also a little robosexual romance, mutant kombucha, aerostatic domestic disputes, and terrible civil engineering.

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To say nothing of the fractal cucumber (or as a Russian friend once called it, "Banana Siberski!"), the glitched out augmented reality, and the black hole underneath the outhouse seat.

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