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10 Feb, 20 tweets, 14 min read
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…

#Pluralistic

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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.

boskone.org

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Crooked cops play music to kill livestreams: Beverly Hills Police Department Sergeant Billy Fair blasting Sublime's Santeria.



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Duke is academia's meanest trademark bully: Empirically speaking, that is.



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Tory donors reap 100X return on campaign contributions: Stochastic corruption.



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A criminal enterprise with a country attached: Ladies and Gentlebeings, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.



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#15yrsago Canadian Red Cross vows to sue first aid kits, too web.archive.org/web/2006022211…

#15yrsago How statistics caught Indonesia’s war-criminals web.archive.org/web/2006042323…

#10yrsago Monkey Truck: colorful picture book with banana-farts and vroom-vrooms memex.craphound.com/2011/02/10/mon…

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#5yrsago Hackers stole 101,000 taxpayers’ logins/passwords from the IRS arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago Detoxing is (worse than) bullshit: high lead levels in “detox clay” statnews.com/2016/02/02/det…

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#5yrsago CIA boss flips out when Ron Wyden reminds him that CIA spied on the Senate techdirt.com/articles/20160…

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Yesterday's threads: 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!



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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:

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

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

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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/2021/02/10/duk…

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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: Nick Johnson (twitter.com/nicksdjohnson), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), James Boyle (twitter.com/thepublicdomain).

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Dependency Confusion; Adam Curtis on criti-hype; Catalytic converter theft; Apple puts North Dakota on blast; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/11/rho…

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Dependency Confusion: A completely wild supply-chain hack.



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11 Feb
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