Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud; Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle; John Deere's dismal infosec; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/rep…

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Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud: Eliminalia, where "we erase your past and help you build your future."



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Foxconn's Wisconsin death-rattle: Imagine losing your family home for a GOP media op.



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John Deere's dismal infosec: Paternalistic security works well, fails badly.



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#1yrago Riot Baby pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/rio…

#1yrago Mayor of Las Vegas says the "free market" will decide what's safe pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/rio…

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Yesterday's threads: The awesome destructive power of a billionaire; Banks made bank on covid overdraft charges; Moxie hacks Cellebrite; Fighting FLoC is compatible with fighting monopoly; EFF sues Proctorio over copyfraud; 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 (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Book launch for Bruce Sterling's Robot Artists & Black Swans (Book People), Apr 27, bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…

* Seize the Means of Computation, Ryerson Centre for Free Expression, May 19, cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

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* Right to Repair, Monopolies, and Solarpunk


* The surveillance state, digital monopolies, and why we should be worried (Podsongs)
anchor.fm/podsongs/episo…

* Conspiracy Theories (Utopian Horizons):
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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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Today's top sources: Ron Deibert (twitter.com/RonDeibert/), Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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