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Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Bossware and shitty tech adoption; EVs as distributed storage; The Mauritanian; Court rejects TSA qualified immunity; Why Brits can no longer order signed copies of my books; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb…

#Pluralistic

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This afternoon, Zeynep Tufekci and I are delivering the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Contemporary Political Struggle: Social Movements, Social Surveillance, Social Media: ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve: White collar workers, your blue collar comrades tried to warn you.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1364613365327302659

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EVs as distributed storage grid: Go green, buy a bigger truck.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1364619944004972550

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The Mauritanian: Hitler painted roses and GWB does portraiture.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1364631986774544387

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Court rejects TSA qualified immunity: Government genital massages can be video-recorded.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1364639844480159754

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Why Brits can no longer order signed copies of my books: Brexit!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1364643098878353408

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#15yrsago Princeton prof explains watermarks’ failures freedom-to-tinker.com/2006/02/24/how…

#15yrsago Palm Beach County voting machines generated 100K anomalies in 2004 web.archive.org/web/2006022517…

#15yrsago Cutting board marked with measurement guides popgadget.net/2006/02/measur…

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#10yrsago Visualizing the wealth of America’s super-rich ruling class motherjones.com/politics/2011/…

#10yrsago MPAA: record-breaking box-office year is proof that piracy is killing movies arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#5yrsago Obama’s new Librarian of Congress nominee is a rip-snortin’, copyfightin’, surveillance-hatin’ no-foolin’ LIBRARIAN obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi…

#5yrsago A brief history of the surveillance debate memex.craphound.com/2016/02/24/a-b…

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#5yrsago After appointed city manager illegally jacked up prices, Flint paid the highest water rates in America freep.com/story/news/loc…

#5yrsago Math denialism: crypto backdoors and DRM are the alternative medicine of computer science theguardian.com/technology/201…

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#1yrago 81 Fortune 100 companies demand binding arbitration pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/plu…

#1yrago The Snowden Archive pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/plu…

#1yrago How "Authoritarian Blindness" kept Xi from dealing with coronavirus pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/plu…

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Yesterday's threads: Private equity's nursing home killing spree; Malcolm X's true killers; A voyage to the moon of 1776; German covid coinages; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1364249568083288067

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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 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 is now available in paperback!

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

Signed copies:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…

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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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