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Jun 28, 2021 • 20 tweets • 16 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Qualia"; Lazy Congress only schedules 9 days' work this summer; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/28/dub…

#Pluralistic

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Podcasting "Qualia": My column on quant-bias, antitrust, drug policy and epidemiology.



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Lazy Congress only schedules 9 days' work this summer: We're not paying you to party on donors' yachts.



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#15yrsago Jim Baen, sf publisher, has passed away web.archive.org/web/2011062819…

#10yrsago YouTube listens to fraudulent NyanCat takedown notice, drags heels on put-back from creator web.archive.org/web/2011062813…

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#10yrsago Wyoming’s corporation mills manufacture privileged artificial “people” to order web.archive.org/web/2011062923…

#5yrsago Hope Larson’s “Compass South”: swashbuckling YA graphic novel memex.craphound.com/2016/06/28/hop…

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#5yrsago Fansmitter: malware that exfiltrates data from airgapped computers by varying the sound of their fans arxiv.org/abs/1606.05915

#5yrsago Healthcare workers prioritize helping people over information security (disaster ensues) cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/pubs/ksbk…

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#5yrsago The Olympics are profitable for every host city (that lies about the numbers) timharford.com/2016/06/how-do…

#5yrsago Gun-waving cop who attacked black teenaged girl in her bathing suit faces no charges dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/06/23/gra…

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#5yrsago Always-on CCTVs with no effective security harnessed into massive, unstoppable botnet arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago Mississippi state rep tells distraught mom to buy kid’s lifesaving meds ‘with money she earns’ sunherald.com/news/local/cou…

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Yesterday's threads: ISP announces 86% slowdown "in line with others"; 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:

* Launch for @unshavedmouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks), Jul 10, mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

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Recent appearances:

* Big Tech Fix, Feet to the Fire podcast:
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* The ACCESS Act, @ConsumerReports:
consumerreports.org/digital-rights…

* Raging Chicken @rtpress 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/2021/06/28/dub…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - and as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Moral hazard and monopoly," on the need to break up big tech platforms

doctorow.medium.com/moral-hazard-a…

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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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Bruce Schneier (schneier.com).

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Jul 18
The telegraph and the telephone have a special place in the history and future of competition and Big Tech. After all, they were the original tech monopolists. Every discussion of tech and monopoly takes place in their shadow.

1/ The cover of the Harvard University Press edition of Richard R Johns's 'Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications.'
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Back in 2010, @SuperWuster published *The Master Switch*, his bestselling, wildly influential history of "The Bell System" and the struggle to de-monopolize America from its first telecoms barons:



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Jul 14
Like you, I've heard a *lot* about Project 2025, Heritage Foundation's roadmap for Trump, should he win the presidency. Given the Heritage Foundation's centrality to the American authoritarian project, it's about as awful and frightening as you might expect.

1/ An X-ray of a broken femur. On either side of the fracture is a elephant (cropped from a medieval illumination) facing one another, in the livery of the GOP logo.
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But (nearly) all the reporting and commentary on Project 2025 badly misses the point.

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Jun 28
In 2017, Equifax suffered the worst breach in history, leaking the deep, nonconsensual dossiers it had compiled on 148m Americans, 15m Britons and 19k Canadians, to form an immortal, undeletable reservoir of kompromat and readymade identity-theft:



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A Depression-era photo of a used car lot with three cars for sale. It has been hand-tinted. The sky has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. All of the car headlights have been replaced with the hostile red eye of 'HAL 9000' in Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Equifax knew the breach was coming. It wasn't just their top execs liquidating their stock in Equifax before the announcement of the breach - it was also that they ignored *years* of increasingly urgent warnings from IT staff about the problems with their server security.

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Jun 27
We're living through one of those moments when millions of people become suddenly and overwhelmingly interested in fair use, one of the subtlest and worst-understood aspects of copyright law. It's not a subject you can master by skimming a Wikipedia article!

1/ EFF's banner for the 'Unfiltered' white paper, depicting TV static overlaid with a parody of the Youtube logo and wordmark, but instead of 'Youtube' it reads 'Fair Use,' with glitched vertical and horizontal sync that distorts the logo. Image: EFF https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/yt-fu-1b.png CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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I've been talking fair use with laypeople for decades. I've met so many people with the unshakable, serene confidence of the *truly* wrong, like those who think fair use means you can always take x words from a book, or y seconds from a song, and no more.

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Jun 26
EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more roads-greater distances-more cars dictate that the future of our cities and planet requires public transit - *lots* of it.

1/ A firebombed cityscape under a smoky red sky. In the foreground is a gigantic brick, most of the length of a city block, with a set of solar panels atop it. Image: 臺灣古寫真上色 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raid_on_Kagi_City_1945.jpg Grendelkhan (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ground_mounted_solar_panels.gk.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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But no matter how much public transit we install, there's always going to be *some* personal vehicles on the road, and not just bikes, ebikes and scooters.

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Jun 24
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Inside: Weinersmith and Boulet's "Bea Wolf"; and more!

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On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY:



On July 20, I'm appearing at Chicago's @BookvillExiles:



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Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the @ClarionUCSD Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!



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