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

Inside: How copyright filters lead to wage-theft; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/08/cop…

#Pluralistic

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I'm doing two live events next Wednesday, May 12:

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, a panel with @daphnehk for the Knight Center's Reimagine the Internet event
knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…

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

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How copyright filters lead to wage-theft: A Red Queen's race with fraudsters.



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#20yrsago Denmark plans to legalize music trading cnn.com/2001/TECH/inte…

#10yrsago NRA and Florida gag pediatricians: no more firearm safety advice for parents npr.org/2011/05/07/136…

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#5yrsago Conservative economics: what’s happened to the UK economy after a year of Tory rule independent.co.uk/news/business/…

#1yrago Volcano gods demand workers pluralistic.net/2020/05/08/vol…

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Yesterday's threads: The PRO Act and worker misclassification; $50k fellowships for critical technologists; The FTC's (kick-ass) Right to Repair report; 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:

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

* Book launch for Aminder Dhaliwal's Cyclopedia Exotica (Indigo), May 12, crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…

* Seize the Means of Computation, , May 19, cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

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Recent appearances:

* In conversation with John Scalzi at the Gaithersburg Book Festival


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

* Podcapitalism Podcast
postcapitalismpodcast.com/cory-doctorow/

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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/2021/05/08/cop…

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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: Webshit Weekly (n-gate.com/hackernews/).

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Last week, "Marina" - a piano teacher who publishes free lessons her Piano Keys Youtube channel - celebrated her fifth anniversary by announcing that she was quitting Youtube because her meager wages were being stolen by fraudsters.



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7 May
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The PRO Act and worker misclassification; $50k fellowships for critical technologists; The FTC's (kick-ass) Right to Repair report; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/07/pro…

#Pluralistic

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Later today (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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The PRO Act and worker misclassification: A turning point in the class war.



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7 May
It's been nearly two years since the @FTC's #NixingTheFix workshop on how corporations have sabotage our #RightToRepair. Finally, the Commission has issued its report, and it's hugely vindicating for R2R advocates.

ftc.gov/system/files/d…

1/ EFF's Right to Repair logo: a green flag with a crossed hamm
If you don't have time to read the 56-page report, check out @Ifixit's cheat-sheet, which highlights the salient points, namely:

ifixit.com/News/50251/ftc…

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* Companies routinely violate federal law by voiding their customers' warranties in retaliation for seeking independent repair

* Anti-repair tactics more heavily harm Black people and communities of color

* The pandemic made independent repair sabotage even more important

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7 May
In world of morally compromised technology and markets, a few entities stand out as consistently on the side of right. @ConsumerReports is one of them.

For 85 years, they have produced rigorous, unbiased, trustworthy accounts of the manufactured goods in our lives.

1/ A 1933 photo an electromechanical lab facility superimposed
As good as they are at this, understanding digital technology requires significant changes, as software-based devices (especially those that interact with remote services) are difficult to evaluate in the lab, since their characteristics can be silently altered at any time.

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CR rose to this challenge with a series of excellent, in-depth cybersecurity breakdowns of products and services, but it's still early days.

Enter the CR Digital Lab, with nonresidential fellowships "to uncover and address emerging consumer harms."

digital-lab.consumerreports.org/join/

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7 May
One of the Biden admin's most important pieces of legislation is the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (#PROAct), which reverses decades of union-busting policies and laws that have led to widening inequality, wage stagnation, and working poverty across America.

1/ 'ILGWU Local 62 marches in a Labor Day parade' - A group of
It's the first pro-worker law since 1935's NLRA, and it restores many of the rights to organize unions and create serious penalties for employers who break the law to prevent their workers from unionizing (today, employers break labor laws with impunity).

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For a great, plain-language breakdown of its contours, check out this breakdown by @GrimKim, @TeenVogue's labor reporter. Note that the law bans many of the dirtiest tricks used by Amazon to defeat the union drive in its Bessemer, Alabama warehouse.

teenvogue.com/story/what-is-…

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