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14 Dec, 23 tweets, 16 min read

Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Situation Normal; China's best investigative stories of 2020; Where money comes from; Raising money for Chelsea Manning; Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town part 26; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/12/14/sit…

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Situation Normal: The long-overdue second Leonard Richardson novel.

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China's best investigative stories of 2020: A glimpse into some very brave and dedicated reporters' work.

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Where money comes from: And what tax is for.

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Raising money for Chelsea Manning: The whistleblower and torture survivor needs our help.

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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town part 26: My last podcast of 2020.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1338574976350220288

#10yrsago Naomi Wolf on rape, justice and Julian Assange huffpost.com/entry/jaccuse-…

#5yrsago The Red Cross brought in an AT&T exec as CEO and now it’s a national disaster propublica.org/article/the-co…

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#5yrsago Philips pushes lightbulb firmware update that locks out third-party bulbs techdirt.com/articles/20151…

#5yrsago Cybercrime 3.0: stealing whole houses memex.craphound.com/2015/12/14/cyb…

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#1yrago McKinsey’s internal mythology compares management consultants to “the Marine Corps, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Jesuits” propublica.org/article/how-mc…

#1yrago Radicalized is one of the Wall Street Journal’s top sf books of 2019! memex.craphound.com/2019/12/14/rad…

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#1yrago AI Now’s annual report: stop doing “emotion detection”; stop “socially sensitive” facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2019_Re…

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#1yrago Private equity looters startled to be called out by name in Taylor Swift award-acceptance speech nypost.com/2019/12/13/pri…

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#1yrago Lawmaker admits not independently researching lobbyist’s claim that ectopic fetuses could be reimplanted in the uterus, blames medical journals radio.wosu.org/post/lawmaker-…

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Yesterday's threads: Share Festival 2020; Well-Armed Peasants; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1338198655778476033

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@washingtonpost

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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@torbooks

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, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, niso.plus/cory-doctorow-…

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Recent appearances:

* Worldshapers
theworldshapers.com/2020/12/06/epi…

* A More Competitive Web (Techdirt Podcast): techdirt.com/articles/20201…

* Big Tech Podcast:
cigionline.org/big-tech/cory-…

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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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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

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Today's top sources: Lisa Rein (twitter.com/lisarein), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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1998's Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended US copyrights by 20 years to life-plus-70 for human authors and 95 years total for corporate authors. The extension was retrospective, so works in the public domain went back into copyright.

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This was a wanton act of violence that doomed much of our culture to disappear entirely before its copyright expired, allowing it to be used and revitalized, rewoven into our cultural fabric.

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As Guariglia writes, "Suspicion is a circular process." In theory you got put into a Rogues Gallery because you were suspicious. In practice, being in a Rogues Gallery MADE YOU suspicious. A single photo taken after a single police encounter turned into an eternal accusation.

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It's been a decade since @apophenia introduced me to the idea of "email sabbaticals." That's when you go away and turn off your email.

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Not just setting an out-of-office message, but rather deleting all inbound mail and asking correspondents to try again after the break. In her message, boyd explains to those correspondents who know how to reach her mother that this is the only way to reach her.

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Here's the rationale: if you allow email to pile up while you're trying to unwind, it'll take months to catch up on when you get back, and you'll immediately burn out, incinerating all the value you got out of your break.

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