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15 Feb, 17 tweets, 12 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: ADT insider threat; Billionaires think VR stops guillotines; Privacy Without Monopoly; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/15/uly…

#Pluralistic

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This Wednesday, I'm giving a talk called "Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future" for the Purdue University CERIAS Program:

cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_event…

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ADT insider threat: If you build it they will spy.



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Billionaires think VR stops guillotines: TARP with tasps.



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Privacy Without Monopoly: Podcasting a reading of the latest EFF whitepaper.



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#15yrsago RIAA: CD ripping isn’t fair use web.archive.org/web/2006021623…

#10yrsago “Psychic” cancels show due to “unforeseen circumstances” web.archive.org/web/2011021705…

#10yrsago CBS sends a YouTube takedown to itself reddit.com/r/WTF/comments…

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Yesterday's threads: Big Pharma will claim opioid fines as tax-deductions; 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:

* Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future (Purdue CERIAS), Feb 17, cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_event…

* 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/2021/02/15/uly…

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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).

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16 Feb
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Uber loses (another) $6.8b; Ring helped LAPD spy on BLM protests; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/rin…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow, I'm giving a talk called "Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future" for the Purdue University CERIAS Program:

cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_event…

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Uber loses (another) $6.8b: The market can stay predatory longer than you can stay angry.



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16 Feb
Ring - Amazon's surveillance doorbell division - has 4,000 "partnerships" with US police ("public safety") orgs. The company has lied about how these work for years, but the basic deal is that they give cops free stuff to buzz-market their products.

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Ring tells its customers that they get to choose whether to share the footage from their street-facing cameras with cops, but that's a lie, too. If you say no, the cops still get to look through your camera.

vice.com/en/article/43k…

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16 Feb
In late 2020, a coalition of predatory, money-losing, private-equity backed companies ran a $200m disinformation campaign that resulted in the passage of California's #Prop22, legalizing worker misclassification and mass-scale labor law violations.

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Almost immediately, the passage of #Prop22 led to the loss of unionized jobs paying a living wage and offering basic worker protections, especially for people of color - only to have them replaced by "gig work" that lacked any of the above.

pluralistic.net/2021/01/05/man…

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One of the primary funders - and beneficiaries - of Prop 22 was Uber, which pioneered worker misclassification. Uber is now pushing the EU to "harmonize" its regulations in a game of transatlantic pingpong where each volley makes things worse.

cnbc.com/2021/02/15/ube…

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15 Feb
This week on my podcast, a spoken-word version of "Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability," a major new white-paper that Bennett Cyphers and I co-authored for @EFF.

craphound.com/news/2021/02/1…

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It’s a paper that tries to resolve the tension between demanding that tech platforms gather, retain and mine less of our data, and the demand that platforms allow alternatives (nonprofits, co-ops, tinkerers, startups) to connect with their services.

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I read the first half of it this week - about 40 minutes' worth - and I'll finish it next week. If you don't want to wait, you can dive in with the written version straightaway:

eff.org/wp/interoperab…

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