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

Inside: Snowden's young adult memoir; Favicons as undeletable tracking beacons; The ECB should forgive the debt it owes itself; Fleet Street calls out schtum Tories; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/09/per…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight, I'm helping Ed Snowden launch the young readers' version of his spectacular memoir "Permanent Record." Join us for a livestream event with Copperfield Books on Feb mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… at 19h Pacific.

eventbrite.com/e/edward-snowd…

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Snowden's young adult memoir: The Young Readers' edition of Permanent Record.



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Favicons as undeletable tracking beacons: F-cache considered harmful.



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The ECB should forgive the debt it owes itself: Another round of austerity will destroy the European project.



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Fleet Street calls out schtum Tories: When Paul Dacre and Katharine Viner agree...



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#15yrsago Canadian Red Cross wastes its money harassing video game makers web.archive.org/web/2006022102…

#15yrsago Our music preferences are driven by the crowd as much as taste livescience.com/7016-science-h…

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#15yrsago Disneyland model recreates Yippie invasion of 1970 web.archive.org/web/2007061205…

#10yrsago BBC to delete 172 unarchived sites, geek saves them for $3.99 web.archive.org/web/2011021015…

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#5yrsago A digital, 3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time mojoptix.com/fr/2015/10/12/…

#5yrsago Eviction epidemic: the racialized, weaponized homes of America’s cities newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…

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#5yrsago Copyright trolls who claimed to own “Happy Birthday” will pay $14M to their “customers” consumerist.com/2016/02/09/hap…

#5yrsago Australia, the driest country on Earth, eliminates basic climate science research scientificamerican.com/article/austra…

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#5yrsago Vtech, having leaked 6.3m kids’ data, has a new EULA disclaiming responsibility for the next leak vice.com/en/article/bmv…

#5yrsago Jughead is asexual themarysue.com/jughead-asexua…

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Yesterday's threads: The grand conclusion 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!

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:

* Talking Attack Surface with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Feb 9, eventbrite.com/e/reboot-attac…

* 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:

* Chop Shop Economics soundcloud.com/chopshopeconom…

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

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

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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/2021/02/09/per…

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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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Republican North Dakota legislators have introduced #SB2333, a bill that prohibits large tech companies from locking their users into a single app store or payment processor.

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11 Feb
Back in the early 2010s, people started falling into open sewer entrances in New York City and other large metros - because a China-driven spike in the price of scrap metal, combined with post-2008 unemployment, gave rise to an army of metal-thieves.

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nytimes.com/2021/02/09/cli…

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Adam Curtis is a brilliant documentarian, and films like Hypernormalization and series like All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace had a profound effect on my thinking about politics, technology and human thriving.

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In "Dependency Confusion," security researcher @alxbrsn describes how he made a fortune in bug bounties by exploiting a new supply-chain attack he calls "dependency confusion," which allowed him to compromise "Apple, Microsoft and dozens of others."

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Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Crooked cops play music to kill livestreams; Duke is academia's meanest trademark bully; Tory donors reap 100X return; A criminal enterprise with a country attached; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk…

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This weekend, I'll be participating in Boskone 58, Boston's annual sf convention, where I'm doing panels and a reading.

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