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Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: Opsec and personal security; Australian predictive policing tool for kids; A textbook grift; Labor and large firms; The power of procurements; Guatemala's guilltoines; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/23/ops…

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Opsec and personal security: Runa Sandvik and Window Snyder on the Attack Surface Lectures.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330890552569516033

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Australian predictive policing tool for kids: Digital phrenology vs racialized kids.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330898304549339136

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A textbook grift: Economics, Final Edition.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330907385615945728

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Labor and large firms: Lessons from Caterpillar and Hollywood.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330923084405063680

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The power of procurements: A streamlined way to regulate IoT.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330927637959610370

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Guatemala's guillotines: Protesters torch the parliament.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330932317225844736

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Someone Comes to Town part 24: This week on my podcast.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330933618894487553

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#10yrsago Machine of Death goes Creative Commons machineofdeath.net/ebook

#10yrsago TSA looks at Adam Savage’s junk, misses his two 12″ razor blades

#5yrsago Blankets: New edition of Craig Thompson’s graphic masterpiece memex.craphound.com/2015/11/23/bla…

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#5yrsago What’s inside a “Hello Barbie” surveillance toy? somersetrecon.com/blog/2015/11/2…

#5yrsago US cops seized more through asset forfeiture in 2014 than US criminals stole through burglary armstrongeconomics.com/international-…

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#1yrago Without right to repair, the military can’t fix its own battlefield equipment nytimes.com/2019/11/20/opi…

#1yrago Indiana University Provost: The First Amendment says we can’t fire our notorious bigot professor, so here’s what we’re doing instead web.archive.org/web/2019112121…

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#1yrago Trump pledged that Amazon would be forced to pay its taxes; thanks to his #taxscam, their profits went up and their taxes stayed $0.00 finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-ta…

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#1yrago Civil society groups protest the sale of .ORG to a private equity fund and a collection of Republican billionaires savedotorg.org

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Yesterday's threads: An Especially Cursed House; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330570366352146432

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

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

* Keynote, Cologne Futures, Nov 27 medienpolitik.eu

* Beaverbrook Lecture: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, Nov 30, mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/…

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Recent appearances:

* Talkingheadz Podcast:
talkingpointz.com/talkingheadz-w…

* Can Web 3 Help Democracy?


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

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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: Noah Shifrin, Fipi Lele, Slashdot (slashdot.org), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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