Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: DC's security theater panned; Weaponing and monetizing apophenia; Awful voting-machine demands silence; Someone Comes to Town Part 27; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/11/see…

#Pluralistic

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DC's security theater panned: The curtain-call's gonna be BRUTAL.



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Weaponing and monetizing apophenia: 5G conspiracies have a business-model.



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Awful voting-machine demands silence: ES&S; piggybacks censorship on Dominion's grievances.



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Someone Comes to Town Part 27: My latest podcast installment.



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#15yrsago Hollywood’s MP denounces “users,” “EFF members” — video web.archive.org/web/2006032303…

#15yrsago #15yrsago Correcting the Record: Wikipedia vs The Register memex.craphound.com/2006/01/11/cor…

#5yrsago HOWTO make a motorcycle out of cigarette lighters web.archive.org/web/2016100808…

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#5yrsago Chelsea Manning reviews book of Aaron Swartz’s writing Chelsea Manning reviews book of Aaron Swartz’s writing

#5yrsago NSA says it will take four years to answer questions about its kids’ coloring book vice.com/en/article/vv7…

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#1yrago William Gibson talks about scrapping and rewriting a novel after the 2016 Trump election theguardian.com/books/2020/jan…

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#1yrago Wireheading: when machine learning systems jolt their reward centers by cheating lesswrong.com/posts/vXzM5L6n…

#1yrago America’s most popular governor: the lavishly corrupt Larry Hogan [R-MD] newrepublic.com/article/156183…

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Yesterday's threads: Busting myths about the Night of the Short Fingers; Impeachment and realignment; and more!



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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:

* What if the future of our public lives online looked like _____? (panel at New_ Public), Jan 13, newpublic.org/festival/event…

* Keynote for linux.conf.au, Jan 22 (US) 23 (Australia) linux.conf.au/schedule/

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Recent appearances:

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard):
play.acast.com/s/cyber/hedgin…

* Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change:
hbr.org/podcast/2020/1…

* 2020 Beaverbrook Lectures:


* Bibliotherapy/Shelf Healing:
buzzsprout.com/1509671/6580831

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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.

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

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Today's top sources: Hackaday (hackaday.com), Utopian Encyclopedia (rollership.tumblr.com), Boing Boing (boingboing.net).

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13 Jan
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: 20 years a blogger; Will Biden bust trusts?; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/13/two…

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20 years a blogger: Reflections on a lifetime of reflecting.



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Will Biden bust trusts?: Obama's third term would be a disaster for antitrust.



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13 Jan
Despite the massive triumphs of the world's largest corporations and most rapacious billionaires during the covid crisis, neoliberalism is in ideological retreat: more people are more critical of the idea that "free markets" can solve big problems than at any time in my life.

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The Democratic nomination race was a fight between the neoliberal wing of the party and the Democratic Socialists, with the candidates representing a spectrum between those two sides (and the odd outlier on either side).

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Supposedly, the party grandees brokered peace between the two main factions, but the left is rightfully suspicious about whether Biden - and Republicans-who-sit-as-Dems like Joe Manchin - will deliver anything beyond symbolic gestures.

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13 Jan
Labyrinth
(1986) dir. Jim Henson
mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/640168595…
Labyrinth
(1986) dir. Jim Henson
mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/640168595…
Labyrinth
(1986) dir. Jim Henson
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13 Jan
It's been twenty years, to the day, since I published my first blog-post.

I'm a blogger.

Blogging - publicly breaking down the things that seem significant, then synthesizing them in longer pieces - is the defining activity of my days.

boingboing.net/2001/01/13/hey…

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Over the years, I've been lauded, threatened, sued (more than once). I've met many people who read my work and have made connections with many more whose work I wrote about. Combing through my old posts every morning is a journey through my intellectual development.

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It's been almost exactly a year I left Boing Boing, after 19 years. It wasn't planned, and it wasn't fun, but it was definitely time. I still own a chunk of the business and wish them well. But after 19 years, it was time for a change.

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12 Jan
→ To live without you, only that would be torture. A day alone, only that would be death. mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/640132644…
→ To live without you, only that would be torture. A day alone, only that would be death. mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/640132644…
→ To live without you, only that would be torture. A day alone, only that would be death. mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/640132644…
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