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22 Jun
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Improving the ACCESS Act; Juul's junk science; Peloton bricks its treadmills; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vap…

#Pluralistic

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This Saturday, I'm appearing on a panel at the #LocusAwards for @locusmag. @WTalabi, @UnlikelyWorlds, @karenthology and I will discourse on "Future Tech: Working the Science into Your Fiction" at 13h Pacific.

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Improving the ACCESS Act: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better.



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22 Jun
"Tread," a $3000 "smart" treadmill from @onepeloton, is a deathtrap. 125,000 Treads have been recalled after the devices injured 72 people and killed a child.

bbc.com/news/business-…

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Say what you will about Peloton's safety engineering, but never fault the evil genius of its strategists. The company responded to the news by bricking the Treads in the field and demanding $40/month "subscriptions" from owners to continue using them.

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The pretense here is that the subscription comes with safety software that means that you treadmill will not maim you or murder your children.

This raises an obvious question: why not just put that software into all the existing Tread devices for free?

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22 Jun
Every time I write about vaping and the extraordinary lengths that the tobacco industry (epitomized by Juul, a sister company to Marlboro) has gone to in order to convince children to vape, I hear from people who tell me that vaping is safe, especially compared to smoking.

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This month, I wrote "I Quit," about my own smoking cessation, with some of Juul's dirtiest tricks, including increasing the nicotine in its child-targeted fruit flavors and its fake "mental health seminars" in schools where they promote vaping.

doctorow.medium.com/i-quit-9ae7b60…

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One Juul trick I wasn't aware of at the time? Faking the research on the safety of vaping.

In a just-published paper for BMJ Tobacco Control, a group of evidence-based medicine specialists document Juul's safety research fraud.

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21 Jun
Last week, Congress introduced the #ACCESSAct, one of the most significant, pro-competitive, pro-user tech laws in American legislative history.

eff.org/deeplinks/2021…

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It will require large tech platforms to open up to interoperability, so you can leave the platform for a rival without losing contact with your friends, communities, audiences and customers.

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By lowering the switching cost of walking away from Big Tech, Congress could create space for co-ops, tinkerers, nonprofits, startups and public services to create small, user-centered communities built on giving people technological self-determination.

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21 Jun
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Inside the Clock Tower"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/21/int…

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Podcasting "Inside the Clock Tower": Reading my Consumer Reports story about an interoperable future.



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21 Jun
Today on my podcast, I read "Inside the Clock Tower," a short science fiction story for @ConsumerReports that depicts a future of interoperable social media (as contemplated by the recently introduced #ACCESSAct).

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The ACCESS Act would require large social media platforms to create gateways (APIs) that new services could plug into, so that users who quit the monopoly services would still be able to talk to the friends, customers and communities they left behind

eff.org/deeplinks/2021…

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