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26 Jan, 22 tweets, 16 min read
Today's threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Twitter's Project Blue Sky; Brazil's world-beating data breach; Evictions and utility cutoffs are covid comorbidities; "North Korea" targets infosec researchers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/26/no-…

#Pluralistic

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Join me this Thursday for the launch of the print edition of my 2020 book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM!

medium.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Twitter's Project Blue Sky: Fix the internet, not the platforms.



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Brazil's world-beating data breach: More than 100% of the population doxed.



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Evictions and utility cutoffs are covid comorbidities: 143,000 covid deaths due to economic precarity.



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"North Korea" targets infosec researchers: Fourth party collection, taken to the logic endpoint.



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#15yrsago How the malicious software on Sony CDs works freedom-to-tinker.com/2006/01/26/cd-…

#15yrsago Censorship: Comparisons of Google China and Google blogoscoped.com/censored/

#10yrsago DHS kills color-coded terror alerts web.archive.org/web/2014100801…

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#5yrsago Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky: smartass, soulful novel memex.craphound.com/2016/01/26/cha…

#1yrago Banks have returned to the pre-2008 world of automatic credit-limit increases for credit cards used by already indebted people bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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#5yrsago Profile of James Love, “Big Pharma’s worst nightmare” theguardian.com/society/2016/j…

#1yrago Fatal car wrecks are correlated with stock-market fluctuations sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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#1yrago Andrew Cuomo’s naked hostility drives out MTA president Andy Byford, the “Train Daddy” who has transformed the world’s rail systems railwayage.com/passenger/you-…

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#1yrago Two years after a federal law banning shackling women during childbirth was passed, prisoners in America are still giving birth in chains theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…

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Yesterday's threads: Plute buys mayor's house and serves eviction papers; Podcast of Someone Comes to Town; 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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My 2020 book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposing a way to deal with both:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Now, it's available in paperback!

barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-destr…

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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:

* Launch for the print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, Jan 28, medium.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* Launch for the young adult edition of Edward Snowden's memoir PERMANENT RECORD, Feb 9, eventbrite.com/e/edward-snowd…
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Recent appearances:

* Monocle Reads monocle.com/radio/shows/me…

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

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

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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!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/01/26/no-…

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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: Bruce Schneier (schneier.com), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), The Grugq (twitter.com/thegrugq).

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Casino mogul steals First Nation's vaccine; Facebook champions (its own) privacy; Goldman CEO gets $17.5m reward for $4.5b fraud; and more!

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