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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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May 19, 2021 • 19 tweets • 16 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Dead, broke; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/19/zom…

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

cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…

And tomorrow (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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Dead, broke: What it's like to inherit nothing but debt.



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#15yrsago Is one month’s piracy worth more than France’s GDP? web.archive.org/web/2006052402…

#10yrsago CDC explains how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthma…

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#5yrsago A look at digital habits of 13 year olds shows desire for privacy, face-to-face time blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digi…

#5yrsago Second Life’s Trump army lays siege to Bernie Sanders’s virtual HQ with swastika cannons vice.com/en/article/yp3…

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#5yrsago Angry dudes are downranking woman-oriented TV shows on review sites fivethirtyeight.com/features/men-a…

#5yrsago Apple rejects game about Palestine because political messages disqualify games from consideration arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05…

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#1yrago Softbank's "pegasus" grift pluralistic.net/2020/05/19/lar…

#1yrago "Shoe-leather" contact tracing works pluralistic.net/2020/05/19/lar…

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Yesterday'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 Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy; 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/2021/05/19/zom…

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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: Patrick Nielsen Hayden (twitter.com/pnh/).

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May 11
Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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Behavioral economists have a name for the steps we take to guard against temptation: a "Ulysses pact." That's when you take some possibility off the table during a moment of strength in recognition of some coming moment of weakness:



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May 9
Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people.

1/ A lonely mud-brick well in a brown desert. It has been modified to add a 'caganar' - a traditional Spanish figure of a man crouching down and defecating - perched on the edge of the well. The caganar's head has been replaced with the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The sky behind this scene has been blended with a 'code waterfall' effect 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 -- Cathe...
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The "Tragedy" hoax said that moving land from collective ownership "rescued" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who cared for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":



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May 6
Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

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But *unsubscribing* from Prime? That's a fucking *nightmare*. Somehow the company that can easily figure out how to sign up for a service is totally baffled when it comes to making it just as easy to leave.

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May 3
Even Google admits - grudgingly - that it is losing the spam wars. The explosive proliferation of botshit has supercharged the sleazy "search engine optimization" business.

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Today, results to common queries are 50% Google ads to spam sites, and 50% links to spam sites that tricked Google into a high rank (without paying for an ad):



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Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured far from the company's Seattle headquarters, in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.

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