Thread by @doctorow

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.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1390302921368117250

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1390321713691328514

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1390330537080877060

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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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1389982762786906114

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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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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @[e-mail].

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's top sources: Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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