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24 Jun, 19 tweets, 18 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/24/pro…

#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.

locusmag.com/2021-locus-awa…

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The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless: Kill it with fire.



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#20yrsago Queer kid vs high-school censorware web.archive.org/web/2001080311…

#20yrsago AI has arrived! web.archive.org/web/2001062511…

#15yrsago Disney: We [will|won’t] sue if you put Pooh on a baby’s headstone web.archive.org/web/2006071119…

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#10yrsago Mexican Congress votes to reject ACTA techdirt.com/articles/20110…

#5yrsago The morning after the Brexit vote, Nigel Farage admits money for the NHS was a lie

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#5yrsago How to protect the future web from its founders’ own frailty memex.craphound.com/2016/06/24/how…

#5yrsago More than 30 people burned during Tony Robbins “motivational” firewalk web.archive.org/web/2016062705…

#5yrsago Sanders will vote Hillary nbcnews.com/politics/2016-…

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#5yrsago Google’s version of the W3C’s video DRM has been cracked memex.craphound.com/2016/06/24/goo…

#5yrsago Undercover reporter spent four months as a prison guard in a Louisiana pen run by CCA motherjones.com/politics/2016/…

#1yrago You are wrong about CDA 230 pluralistic.net/2020/06/24/rus…

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#1yrago Vegas casino workers beg for their lives pluralistic.net/2020/06/24/rus…

#1yrago AOC wins pluralistic.net/2020/06/24/rus…

#1yrago EU v FB (vg!) pluralistic.net/2020/06/24/rus…

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Tuesday's threads: Improving the ACCESS Act; Juul's junk science; Peloton bricks its treadmills; 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:

* Future Tech: Working the Science into Your Fiction (Locus Awards), Jun 26, locusmag.com/2021-locus-awa…

* Launch for @UnshavedMouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks) mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

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Recent appearances:

* Big Tech Fix, Feet to the Fire podcast:
feet2fire.net/e/a-bigtech-re…

* The ACCESS Act, @ConsumerReports:
consumerreports.org/digital-rights…

* Raging Chicken @rcpress podcast:
rcpress.podbean.com/e/out-dcoup-li…

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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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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/2021/06/24/pro…

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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.

My latest Medium column is "The EU, tech trustbusting and trade-wars": doctorow.medium.com/the-eu-tech-tr…)

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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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24 Jun
Before covid, "remote proctoring" tools were a niche product, invasive tools that spied on students who needed to take high-stakes tests but couldn't get to campus or a satellite test-taking room. But the lockdown meant that *all* students found themselves in this position.

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This could have prompted educators to reconsider the use of high-stakes tests. After all, high-stakes testing has well-understood limitations in pedagogy, and organizes education around a highly artificial ritual completely unlike the rest of scholarly *and* industrial life.

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24 Jun
I've been paying close attention to @RepThomasMassie during the #ACCESSAct markup and I can't figure out his point. He correctly observes that proprietary standards are anticompetitive, but opposes the gold standard for open standards, namely, an IPR policy requiring licensing
@RepThomasMassie has described himself as a software developer, but it really feels like he is way, way out of his depth on standardization. Has he ever participated in an SDO. Not being able to distinguish between "interop" and "common vuln" is a pretty tyro error.
It's stuff like this that makes people assume that lawmakers are incapable of understanding - and thus regulating - technology. @RepThomasMassie really needs to get up to speed on how standards work.
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23 Jun
In the #ACCESSAct hearing, @RepThomasMassie called the shared vulnerabilities in large-scale hacks as stemming from "interoperability." That's factually wrong. They have "shared dependencies" (use the same code/modules). This isn't the same thing as "interoperability."
Then @RepThomasMassie correctly warned that when firms get to define standards to their proprietary advantage, it produces monopoly power. However, #ACCESSAct provides for OPEN standards, developed independently of large firms.
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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.

locusmag.com/2021-locus-awa…

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