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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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"Switching costs" are one of the great underappreciated evils in our world: the more it costs you to change from one product or service to another, the worse the vendor, provider, or service you're using today can treat you without risking your business.

1/ A painting of Moses parting the Red Sea, with taerrified and grateful Israelites around his feet and an onrushing army of charioteers in pursuit. Moses has been replaced with a vintage editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam as a stern cop holding out a billyclub, on his breast is the crest of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. The roiling Red Sea has been overlaid with a US $100 bill.
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Oct 29
I think it behooves us to be skeptical of stories about AI driving people to believe wrong things and commit ugly actions. Not that I like the AI slop that is filling up our social media, but when we look at the ways that AI is harming us, slop is pretty low on the list.

1/ A man lying in a hospital bed, wearing a sinister mind-control helmet. His hands are clenched into fists and he is grimacing. Through a hole in the wall we see a prancing vaudevallian, whose head has been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse avatar. Behind this figure is the giant red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' At the end of the bed stand a trio - Mom, Dad and daughter - in Sunday best clothes, their backs to us, staring at the mind-controlled man's face. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC ...
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Oct 26
Two decades ago, I was part of a group of nerds who got really interested in how each other managed to do what we did. The effort was kicked off by @mala, who called it "Lifehacking" and I played a small role in getting that term popularized:



1/ craphound.com/lifehacksetcon…A 1930s-era suited male figure seated at a formal desk that is mounted high with papers. His head has been replaced with that of a grinning elephant. Reaching through the papers, parting them like the Red Sea, is a giant, friendly male hand, along with a bit of shirt and suit-cuff.
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While we were all devoted to sharing tips and tricks from our own lives, many of us converged on an outside expert, David Allen, and his bestselling book "Getting Things Done" (GTD, to those in the know):



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Oct 24
A paradox: in 1970, most Americans found it relatively easy to afford a house, and the average US house cost 5.9x the average US income. In 2024, Americans find it nearly impossible to afford a house, and the average American house costs...5.9x the average American income.

1/ A cowboy-hatted, tuxedoed, cigar-smoking Ronald Reagan sits at a coffin/table with the angel of death, which is gesticulating wildly. Reagan holds a green Monopoly house; several more, and a hotel, rest on the coffin before him. The hazy edges of the scene give way to a sepia-tinted, vintage aerial photo of the Levittown suburbs
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Feels like a puzzler, right? Can it really be true that the average American house is as affordable to the average American earner as it was in 1970?

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If Trump's norm-breaking is a threat to democracy (and it is), what should Democrats do? Will breaking norms to defeat norms only accelerate the collapse of norms, or do we fight fire with fire, breaking norms to resist the slide into tyranny?

1/ A rearing GOP elephant (with Trump's hair) facing off against bucking Democratic mule. Between them is a grimacing Statue of Liberty, leaning to one side. Behind the Trump elephant looms a clown with a MAGA clown-hat, brandishing a pistol. Behind the Democratic mule is a science worker using a set of tongs to add a glowing atom to a giant test-tube full of technological artifacts. Behind them roil dark purplish storm-clouds.
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