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1 Feb, 17 tweets, 13 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Someone Comes to Town Part 30; Unidirectional entryism; The good news about vaccination bad news; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/01/din…

#Pluralistic

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Someone Comes to Town Part 30: Nearly finished podcasting my 2006 novel!



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Unidirectional entryism: Why aren't there more RINOs?



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The good news about vaccination bad news: Attributing to malice AND incompetence (not intractability).



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#10yrsago If London’s police were in charge of Egyptian crowd-estimates

#10yrsago Harper’s publisher rejects $50K worth of pledges, will lay off staff anyway docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#10yrsago IPv4 is exhausted tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/01…

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#5yrsago Hollow rock turns into a router full of survival info when you build a fire beside it bldgblog.com/2016/01/hot-ro…

#5yrsago UK Snooper’s Charter is so broad, no one can figure out what it means vice.com/en/article/53d…

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Yesterday's threads: Mashing the Bernie meme; Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q; 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!

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

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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 young adult edition of Edward Snowden's memoir PERMANENT RECORD, Feb 9, eventbrite.com/e/edward-snowd…

* Boskone, 58, Feb 12-15, boskone.org

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

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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/2021/02/01/din…

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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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Criti-Hype; Right to Repair is back for 2021; The free market and rent-seeking; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/02/eut…

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Criti-Hype: Tech bros will settle for "evil genius."



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When you hear the phrase "free market," you probably think of "a market that is free from regulation" but that's the opposite of the phrase's original meaning!

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Adam Smith used the term to describe a market that was free from "economic rents" - money earned by owning things, rather than doing things. Smith recognized that markets attract parasites - "rentiers" - who seek to drain wealth by "investing" rather than building and doing.

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2 Feb
2018 was almost the year we won the #RightToRepair.

Instead, 2018 turned out to be the year we lost #R2R: 20 bills defeated in 20 state houses, and it was mostly @Apple's fault.

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2 Feb
There's a Yom Kippur joke I love: the rabbi and the richest man in town are praying, "Oh Lord, I am nothing, I am nothing!"

The synagogue's janitor sees them and joins in: "I am nothing!"

The richest man says to the rabbi: "Look who thinks he's nothing."

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The humblebrag is a wild phenomena, and it's endemic to a certain kind of tech criticism. When a technologist - what @mariafarrell calls a "prodigal tech bro" - confesses that he's an evil genius, then "genius" is the point.

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1 Feb
Silver linings pop up where you least expect 'em. Like you, I've been worried about the chaos in vaccine distribution.

I'm not talking about the maniacs who blockaded Dodger Stadium to prevent vaccinations:

latimes.com/california/sto…

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Or the guy who literally thinks the sky is a hoax who destroyed 500 vaccine doses:

washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02…

Nor the man-child who turned Philly vaccinations into an incompetent grift:

npr.org/sections/healt…

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I mean the common, garden variety clusterfuck of the parts of the vaccination process that AREN'T being actively sabotaged - the parts that are being run by people who are trying their hardest, who want to succeed, and are failing anyway.

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