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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
@doctorow
May 6, 2021 • 21 tweets • 17 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Scammers recycled covid nose-swabs; Ed-tech apps spy on kids; NY AG attributes Net Neutrality fraud to telcos; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boo…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow (May 7), the @GburgBookFest is featuring me in an interview conducted by John @Scalzi; we pre-recorded the event but I'll be in the live chat for the premiere.



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Scammers recycled covid nose-swabs: Indonesia had 1.6m infections and these supervillains helped export them.



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Ed-tech apps spy on kids: Disciplinary Technology, SDKs, censorware, and education.



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NY AG attributes Net Neutrality fraud to telcos: 18 million fraudulent comments filed in the FCC docket.



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#10yrsago Syria’s man-in-the-middle attack on Facebook eff.org/deeplinks/2011…

#5yrsago America’s prisons are replacing vital in-person visits with expensive, nonfunctional video calling mic.com/articles/14277…

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#5yrsago Data-driven look at America’s brutal, racist debt-collection machine propublica.org/article/so-sue…

#5yrsago Community college evicts daycare center to make room for Goldman Sachs golocalprov.com/news/daycare-c…

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#5yrsago 2,000 US doctors endorse Sanders’ single-payer healthcare proposal washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…

#5yrsago FBI has been harassing a Tor developer since 2015, won’t tell her or her lawyer why blog.patternsinthevoid.net/fbi-harassment…

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#5yrsago Weird porn author who was dragged into Hugo Awards mess pulls off epic troll dailydot.com/unclick/chuck-…

#1yrago Ohio's got snitchline for bosses whose workers who won't go back pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/mol…

#1yrago Sacrifice banks to save businesses pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/mol…

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Yesterday's threads: Stimmies killed the McJob; MRNA vaccines and Clarke's Law; 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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* In conversation with @Scalzi (@GburgBookFest), May 7,

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, May 12, knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…

* Book launch for @Aminder_D's Cyclopedia Exotica, May 12, crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…

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Recent appearances:

* Hexapodia XIII with J Bradford De Long and Noah Smith
braddelong.substack.com/p/podcast-hexa…

* Podcapitalism Podcast
postcapitalismpodcast.com/cory-doctorow/

* Talking "Robot Artists & Black Swans" with Bruce Sterling
archive.org/details/robot-…

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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/2021/05/06/boo…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

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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: Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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May 6
Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

1/ A hand depositing a ballot in a perspex ballot box on a black background. The box is full of yellow-green piss and the ballot features an angry robot made from Amazon boxes and the phrase 'I am not a robot.' The box has an Amazon logo across its top. Image: Isabela.Zanella (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballot-box-2.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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But *unsubscribing* from Prime? That's a fucking *nightmare*. Somehow the company that can easily figure out how to sign up for a service is totally baffled when it comes to making it just as easy to leave.

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May 4
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Director Irvin Kershner posing with Darth Vader, IG-88 and Boba Fett gameraboy2.tumblr.com/post/749583586…
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May 3
Even Google admits - grudgingly - that it is losing the spam wars. The explosive proliferation of botshit has supercharged the sleazy "search engine optimization" business.

1/ A wall of Spam cans stacked many layers high and deep. Superimposed over it are UI elements from the Google 1998 homepage: a search box, a 'Google Search' button, and an 'I'm feeling lucky' button. The middle four rows of Spam cans have been colorized to match the Google four-color logo tones. Image: freezelight (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spam_wall_-_Flickr_-_freezelight.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
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Today, results to common queries are 50% Google ads to spam sites, and 50% links to spam sites that tricked Google into a high rank (without paying for an ad):



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May 1
Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured far from the company's Seattle headquarters, in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.

1/ A Boeing 737 Max with Boeing livery, flying through a grey-blue sky. It has split in two. The tail section, which is falling out of the sky, has a large REJECTED stamp on it. A parachute sailing away from the wreckage suspends a '¯\_(ツ)_/¯' ASCII shrug emoji. Image: Tom Axford 1 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_sky_with_wisps_of_cloud_on_a_clear_summer_morning.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Clemens Vasters (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N7379E_-_Boeing_737_MAX_9.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons...
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Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured far from the company's Seattle headquarters, in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.

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Apr 30
Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Monopolies are intrinsically destabilizing and inevitably implode...eventually. Guessing *which* of the loathesome monopolies that make us all miserable will be the first domino is a hard call, but Ticketmaster is definitely high on my list.

1/The Capitol building. Before it sits a vast pile of hundred dollar bills in rubber-banded packets. Behind it is a set of stadium concert lights. Overhead hangs a crooked, dirty sign bearing the Live Nation wordmark. The Capitol building is a-crawl with vivid green tentacles. Image: Matt Biddulph (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/13904063945/ CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ -- Flying Logos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
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It's not that event tickets are the most consequential aspect of our lives. The monopolies over pharma, fuel, finance, tech, and even beer are all more important to our day-to-day.

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Cigna - like all private health insurers - has two contradictory imperatives:

I. To keep its customers healthy; and

II. To make as much money for its shareholders as is possible.

1/ An existential plane extending to an abstract background. Scattered through the scene are mainframes and control panels, being worked by faceless figure. In the center stands a downcast MD in old-fashioned scrubs. In the foreground to the right is an impatient older man in a business suit, staring at his watch and brandishing a sheaf of papers. In the background left is a grim reaper figure raising a glass of blood in a toast, the blood spattering his robes. In the center background in large magnetic 'computer font' lettering is the word 'NO.'
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Now, there's a hypothetical way to resolve these contradictions, a story much beloved by advocates of America's wasteful, cruel, inefficient private health industry.

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