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16 Dec, 20 tweets, 14 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: Email sabbaticals; Chaos Communications Congress; Landmark US financial transparency law; Rogues' Galleries and facial recognition; Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fra…

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Email sabbaticals: I'm going offline until next year.



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Chaos Communications Congress: Finally a way to do CCC without making your family furious.



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Landmark US financial transparency law: Beginning of the end for the US onshore-offshore industry.



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Rogues' Galleries and facial recognition: Self-fulfilling prophecies at the core of white supremacist policing.



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Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925: Gatsby, Dalloway, Buster Keaton, Ma Rainey, et al.



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#10yrsago Data mining the intellectual history of the human race with Google Book Search web.archive.org/web/2010121907…

#5yrsago America’s permanent, ubiquitous tent-cities placesjournal.org/article/tent-c…

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#5yrsago McKinsey is lying about its role in building ICE’s gulags, and paying to own the top search result for “McKinsey ICE” propublica.org/article/mckins…

#1yrago Bunnie Huang’s classic “Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen” is now free online

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#1yrago Private equity firms should be abolished mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-private-…

#1yrago ICANN hits pause on the sale of .ORG to Republican billionaires’ private equity fund icann.org/news/blog/org-…

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Yesterday's threads: Pornhub and payment processors; Asset forfeiture is just theft; EU competition rules have real teeth; Blockchain voting is bullshit; and more!

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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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:

* Chaos Communications Congress: "What the cyberoptimists got wrong - and what to do about it," Dec 27, 19h CET/10h Pacific rc3.world

* Chaos Communications Congress: Fireside Chat Dec 27, 20h CET/11h Pacific rc3.world

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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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

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If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "👛". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list

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

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's top sources: Waxy (waxy.org), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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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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Cities - and even states - across the USA have passed laws banning the use of facial recognition technology by governments; the most-often cited concern is surveillance and its ability to chill lawful conduct like protests.

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But as my @eff colleague @mguariglia writes for @FutureTenseNow, the risks run deeper than that, as historic debates have shown us. The early 20th century saw debates over "rogues galleries" (police files of photos of criminals and suspects).

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Governments have fallen as a result of these leaks. Journalists have been murdered for reporting them, whistleblowers have been imprisoned for telling the truth. These are a high-stakes window on the corruption, self-dealing and viciousness of the 1% and their criminal pals.

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I'm about to go offline until 2021 and I had planned to do ABSOLUTELY NO WORK OF ANY SORT while on break, but I made an exception, for an exceptional opportunity: the 32nd Chaos Communications Congress, which is remote this year.

rc3.world

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CCC is - notoriously - held during Christmas week, which means that the attendees are limited to people who either care about tech policy and security more than their families, or people who can talk their families into coming along.

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It's one of the best events I've ever attended (I brought my family along). My talk at that event, "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing," has had a long afterlife, in large part because of the kind and thoughtful reactions of the attendees.



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