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

Inside: Against hygiene theater; Saving the planet is illegal; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/25/rin…

#Pluralistic

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Against hygiene theater: Wired: Ventilation. Tired: Handwashing. Fired: Sterilization.



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Saving the planet is illegal: Time to torch the Energy Charter Treaty.



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#15yrsago Don Knotts dead at 81 web.archive.org/web/2006062216…

#5yrsago Rosa Parks’s papers and photos online at the Library of Congress loc.gov/collections/ro…

#5yrsago HarperCollins to libraries: we will nuke your ebooks after 26 checkouts memex.craphound.com/2011/02/25/har…

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#5yrsago Disney offers to deduct contributions to its PAC from employees’ paychecks, to lobby for TPP arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago Read: The full run of If magazine, scanned at the Internet Archive archive.org/details/ifmaga…

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#1yrago Cops' qualified immunity pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/plu…

#1yrago Private equity looters underperform the S&P 500 pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/plu…

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Yesterday's threads: Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve; EVs as distributed storage grid; The Mauritanian; Court rejects TSA qualified immunity; Why Brits can no longer order signed copies of my books; 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 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 in paperback!

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

Signed copies here:
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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Upcoming appearances:

* Affordable Internet Day of Action, Mar 16, affordable-internet.ca

* World Ethical Data Forum keynote, Mar 17-19, worldethicaldataforum.org/wedf-2020

* Launching "The Future You" with Brian David Johnson, Mar 19, changinghands.com/event/march202…

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Recent appearances:

* Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future


* Talking "Permanent Record Young Readers' Edition" with Edward Snowden

* Talking "Agency" with William Gibson

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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/2021/02/25/rin…

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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: K-Zombies; Privacy is not property; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/26/mea…

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This is the last Pluralistic installment until mar 15; I'm taking a stay-at-home vacation/email sabbatical. I won't be reading messages from close of business on Friday, Feb 26 until 9AM Pac on Mar 15. Emails/DMs, etc that come in between now and then will be deleted unread.

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26 Feb
When all you have is market orthodoxy, everything looks like a market failure. Take privacy: giant, rapacious corporations have instrumented the digital and physical worlds to spy on us all the time, so some people think they should pay us for our data.

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There's a pretty rich theoretical history explaining why this "data dividend" is a stupid idea. First of all, private information isn't very property-like. And not just because it shares all the problems of digital works (infinitely, instantaneously copyable at zero cost).

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Private information makes for bad "property" because it is "owned" by multiple, overlapping parties who generally disagree about when and who to share it with. When you and I have a conversation, we both own the fact that the conversation took place.

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26 Feb
When you and your friends put your fingers on the ouija board planchette and it starts moving around, there's a chance your friends are just yanking your chain - but just as possible is that your friends are experiencing the ideomotor response.

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That's when your unconscious mind directs your muscles without your conscious knowledge. The movement of the planchette doesn't tell you what's going on in the spirit world, but it does tell you something about the internal weather of your friend's psyche, fears and hopes.

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Our narratives are social-scale planchettes, directed by mass ideomotor response. When a fake news story takes hold, it reveals a true fact: namely, the shared, internal models of how the world really works.

Fake news is an oracle, in other words.

locusmag.com/2019/07/cory-d…

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25 Feb
One of the worst barriers to preserving the planet in a state suitable for human habitation is the Energy Charter Treaty, an obscure 1994 treaty with 50+ signatories that allows energy companies to sue governments over environmental protection laws.

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The ECT has just been invoked by the German polluter @RWE_AG, which is suing the Dutch government for €1.4b over a law that bans coal plants by 2030.

euractiv.com/section/energy…

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All told, the EU faces AT LEAST €345b in ECT liability over its climate plans. In reality, the total could be much higher, because the ECT provides for damages equal to the value of physical plant and ALL PROJECTED FUTURE PROFITS from those plants.

investigate-europe.eu/en/2021/ect/

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25 Feb
A year ago, covid was a mystery. We didn't know how it spread, we didn't know who it infected, we didn't know how to treat it. All we knew was that it was spreading fast and the early epicenters were slaughterhouses.

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It's been a year, and now we know a lot more. One thing we know, for example, is that even though virus particles can linger for a long time on surfaces, you're not likely to catch the virus from these "fomites."

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Simple handwashing of the sort we should have all practised all along will do the trick. You don't need to sterilize your groceries or leave your parcels to sit on your doorstep for three days. Just wash your hands!

popsci.com/story/health/c…

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