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Today's threads:

A simple, incomplete ransomware defense; Community Health Services sued its way through the pandemic; Apple's complicity in Chinese state oppression; What Would OSS Look Like If It Were Healthy; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/18/unh…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow (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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A simple, incomplete ransomware defense: Attribution is hard, but whatever works.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1394667352776531969

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Community Health Services sued its way through the pandemic: When health is a business, medical debt is an asset.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1394682934091649024

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Apple's complicity in Chinese state oppression: Corporations don't have character, they have incentives.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1394706771747303427

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What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy: Sumana Harihareswara's Github talk.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1394712777084661760

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#15yrsago Audio from @bruces's “Arphid nor RFID” rant mazine.ws/node/314

#15yrsago Cops raid “sex slave cult” based on science fiction novels news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4…

#10yrsago List of economists involved in violent sex crimes, for Ben Stein blog.xkcd.com/2011/05/18/ans…

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#5yrsago Elsevier buys SSRN techdirt.com/articles/20160…

#5yrsago We Stand on Guard: in 100 years, America seizes Canada for its water memex.craphound.com/2016/05/18/we-…

#1yrago US insurers say paying for pandemic treatment is "selfless" pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

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#1yrago Deliveroo, without Deliveroo pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

#1yrago Restaurateur wreaks algorithmic vengeance upon Doordash pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/cod…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1394358358606446594

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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 David Dayen (Second Life Book Club), Jun 4, draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…

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Recent appearances:

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media


* Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans
open.spotify.com/episode/01dGJO…

* Can Antitrust Laws Destroy Surveillance Capitalism? (Majority Report)


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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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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