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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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May 15, 2021 • 20 tweets • 17 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Newsom's California fiber dream; The S&L crisis perfected finance crime; Big Pharma's vicious battle against universal covid vaccination; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/15/how…

#Pluralistic

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Next Weds (5/19), I'm doing a talk called "Seize the Means of Computation," at the @ryersoncfe:

cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

And on Thu (5/20), I'm doing a keynote called "Privacy Without Monopoly," for the @NorthSec_io conference:

nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…

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Newsom's California fiber dream: 100gbs symmetrical to every home in the state or bust!



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The S&L crisis perfected finance crime: The best way to rob a bank is to own one.



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Big Pharma's vicious battle against universal covid vaccination: Ghost-writing memos for GOP "public servants."



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#20yrsago Vegas outcall services phreak each others' phoneshttps://www.securityfocus.com/news/205

#15yrsago Gmail downgraded, no longer cracks PDFs web.archive.org/web/2006060305…

#10yrsago Walter Jon Williams uses pirate ebooks to rescue his backlist walterjonwilliams.net/2011/05/crowds…

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#5yrsago Algorithmic cruelty: when Gmail adds your harasser to your speed-dial lizdenys.com/journal/articl…

#1yrago Tear gas ice-cream pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…

#1yrago Whistleblower warns of massive mortgage fraud pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…

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#1yrago A people's vaccine pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…

#1yrago Google's GDPR reckoning pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…

#1yrago Understanding Qanon pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out…

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Yesterday's threads: A weapon of mass financial destruction; 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:

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

* Privacy Without Monopoly, @NorthSec_io , May 20, nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…

* In conversation with @ddayen (Second Life Book Club), Jun 4, draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…

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Recent appearances:

* @mamohanraj and @ben_rosenbaum Are Humans
open.spotify.com/episode/01dGJO…

* Can Antitrust Laws Destroy Surveillance Capitalism? (@majorityfm)


* In conversation with John @Scalzi at the @GburgBookFest


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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 @MCRockefeller. 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/2021/05/15/how…

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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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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Feb 12
Remember the Tiktok ban? I know, it was ten million years ago (in Musk years, anyway), so it may have slipped your mind, but let me remind you: Congress passed a law saying Tiktok was banned. Trump said he wouldn't enforce the law. The end.

1/ An official portrait of the US Supreme Court, with the justices sitting and standing before a red velvet curtain. Their faces have been replaced with the green 'Mr Yuck' logo. Floating in the middle of the image, obscuring several judges, is the Tiktok logo, with Trump's hair.
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No, really. I mean, sure, there's a bunch of bullshit about whether Trump will pick up the ban again after Tiktok's grace period ends, depending on whether they sell themselves to his creepy wax museum pal Larry Ellison. Maybe he will.

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Feb 11
Let me tell you about the most wasteful US federal government spending I know about. It's a humdinger. You and everyone you know are mired in it for weeks, or perhaps months, every year.

1/ A halftoned 2025 IRS 1040 form. To the left is a bloated billionaire figure in top hat, white gloves and tux, with the pouting face of Elon Musk. With one hand, he is yanking on a lever made out of a gilded dollar-sign. With the other hand, he contemptuously dangles a street urchin. The podium to which the lever is attached bears the Turbotax logo, a white checkmark in a red circle. To the left is a cascade of gold coins, falling out of an upended sack. Image: Wcamp9 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_-_March_28,_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creative...
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It will cost you, personally, thousands of dollars over your lifetime. I'm talking about filing your taxes.

Not *paying* your taxes. Paying your taxes is fine.

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Feb 5
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Inside: MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing; and more!

Archived at:

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1/ pluralistic.net/2025/02/04/pow…A vintage ad for Amway Nutrilite supplements; the illustration in the center of the ad has been replaced with a WPA mural depicting trade unionists rising up against capitalism.
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MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing: In the mirror world, community organizers are community predators.



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Jan 27
If Elon Musk wants to cut $2t from the US federal budget, there's a pretty straightforward way to get there - just eliminate all the beltway bandits who overcharge Uncle Sucker for everything from pharma to roads to (of course) rockets, and make the rich pay their taxes.

1/ A highwayman in a tailcoat and top-hat with Elon Musk's laughing face points a pair of oversized revolvers at a bent-double Uncle Sam, his face a bitter mask; Sam is being crushed under a small mountain of variegated fardels, e.g., large sacks, barrels, and railroad rails. In the background is a halftoned image of a Falcon Heavy rocket plummeting out of the sky, chased by a plume of flame. Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/52005460639/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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There *is* a ton of federal bloat, but it's not coming from useless programs or overpaid federal employees.

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Jan 25
The core regulatory proposition of the tech industry is "it's not a crime if we do it with an app." It's not an unlicensed taxi if we do it with an app. It's not an illegal hotel room if we do it with an app.

1/ Two caricatures of top-hatted millionaires whose bodies are bulging money-sacks. Their heads have been replaced with potatoes. The potatoes' eyes have been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' They stand in a potato field filled with stoop laborers. The sky is a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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It's not an unregistered security if we do it with an app. It's not wage theft if we do it with an app.

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"Boss politics" are a feature of corrupt societies. When a society is dominated by self-dealing, corrupt institutions, strongman leaders can seize control by appealing to the public's fury and desperation.

1/ An altered version of a Gilded Age editorial cartoon titled 'Who controls the Senate?' which depicts the Senate as populated by tiny, ineffectual politicians ringed by massive, bloated, brooding monopolists. A door labeled 'people's entrance.' is firmly locked. A sign reads, 'This is a senate of the monopolists, by the monopolists and for the monopolists.' The image has been altered: an editorial cartoon of Boss Tweed, portrayed as a portly man in a business suit with a money-bag for a head, stands in the foreground. He is wearing a MAGA hat. On his shoulder perches a tiny, 'big stick' swin...
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Then, the boss can selectively punish corrupt entities that oppose him, and since *everyone* is corrupt, these will be valid prosecutions.

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