Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: Sci-Fi Genre; Saudi Aramco is gushing debt; Emailifaction is digital carcinization; Cheap Chinese routers riddled with backdoors; Talking interop on EFF's podcast; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/24/zaw…

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Sci-Fi Genre: Sarah Gailey and Chuck Wendig on the Attack Surface Lectures.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1331234632767922189

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Saudi Aramco is gushing debt: Vision 2030 strikes again.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1331275079951413249

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Emailifaction is digital carcinization: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1331280625945350149

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Cheap Chinese routers riddled with backdoors: Actively exploited by Mirai.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1331293060349661184

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Talking interop on EFF's podcast: We call it competitive compatibility.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1331296992631291904

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#10yrsago Menstruating woman subjected to TSA grope because panty-liner obscured her vulva on pornoscanner blog.gladrags.com/2010/11/24/tsa…

#5yrsago Randall “XCKD” Munroe’s Thing Explainer: delightful exploded diagrams labelled with simple words memex.craphound.com/2015/11/24/ran…

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#5yrsago Shamrock shake: Pfizer’s Irish “unpatriotic loophole” ducks US taxes arstechnica.com/science/2015/1…

#5yrsago WTO rules against US dolphin-safe tuna labels because they’re unfair to Mexican fisheries theintercept.com/2015/11/24/wto…

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#5yrsago J Edgar Hoover was angry that the Boy Scouts didn’t thank him effusively enough muckrock.com/news/archives/…

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#1yrago Peak billionaire: a billionaire tries to purchase a party nomination to outflank anti-billionaires so he can run against another billionaire time.com/5735384/capita…

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#1yrago A poor, Trump-voting Florida town opened a government grocery store to end its food desert, but it’s “not socialism” washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11…

#1yrago I made Wil Wheaton recite the digits of Pi for four minutes, then a fan set it to music soundcloud.com/nicholasland/p…

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#1yrago The Lincoln Library executive director got fired for renting Glenn Beck the original Gettysburg Address chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/11/22/lin…

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Yesterday's threads: Opsec and personal security; Australian predictive policing tool for kids; A textbook grift; Labor and large firms; The power of procurements; Guatemala's guilltoines; Someone Comes to Town part 24; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330940283802980353

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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:

* Nerdcanon Podcast:
nerdcanon.com/episode-25-cor…

* Plutopia Podcast:
plutopia.io/2020/11/23/cor…

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

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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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Slashdot (slashdot.org), Deeplinks (eff.org/deeplinks/).

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