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17 May, 18 tweets, 14 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Paygo, false consciousness and the IRS; The Public Interest Internet; Concluding How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/17/dis…

#Pluralistic

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This Weds (5/19), I'm doing a talk called "Seize the Means of Computation," at the Ryerson Centre for Free Expression:

cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

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

nsec.io/speaker/cory-d…

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Paygo, false consciousness and the IRS: Why we can't have nice things.



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The Public Interest Internet: Reviving pre-enclosure glory.



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Concluding How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Now, onto the audiobook mastering!



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#20yrsago Danish birds imitate ringtones web.archive.org/web/2002020912…

#15yrsago Wired News publishes damning docs from EFF vs AT&T wired.com/2006/05/att-wh…

#10yrsago HOWTO Make an office-supply X-Wing Fighter instructables.com/X-Wing-Fighter…

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#5yrsago Brian Wood’s REBELS book one — read the first issue here! memex.craphound.com/2016/05/17/bri…

#1yrago Instagram's slow-mo appeals court pluralistic.net/2020/05/17/che…

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Yesterday's threads: Who owns the covid vaccines; 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:

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media


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

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


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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/2021/05/17/dis…

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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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A truism in security is "attribution is hard." It's really hard to know who hacked you, first, because it's easy to deflect suspicion by leaving false clues, and second, because the bar for hacking even big, critical systems is so low.

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This week on my podcast, the seventh and final part of my serialized reading of my 2020 @ozm book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, a book arguing that monopoly – not AI-based brainwashing – is the real way that tech controls our behavior.

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

1/ The cover of One/Zero/Medium's paperback edition of 'How to
The book is available in paperback:

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

and DRM-free ebook :

sowl.co/bm2F7c

and my local bookseller, @darkdel, has signed stock that I'll drop by and personalize for you!

darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…

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And here's part one:

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And part two:

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And part three:

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1/ EFF's 'public interest internet' illustration: a 2.5-D gamel
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