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28 Jun, 20 tweets, 16 min read
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:
feet2fire.net/e/a-bigtech-re…

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

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/29/thr…

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SCOTUS to wrongfully accused terrorists: "drop dead": Kavanaugh finds new ways to be wrong.



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Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit: Bad web-design is a choice.



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The Child Tax Credit is a seriously good piece of policy, in which America's poorest families are eligible for $2-3k/year in subsidies, a move projected to cut American child poverty in half.

There's one problem: the IRS has no idea how to reach America's poorest families.

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Many of the people eligible for CTC don't file tax returns and even if they did, they'd have no contact with the IRS, because the tax-prep monopoly killed all attempts to create a "free file" system where the IRS sends you a prefilled return with the info they already have.

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When I say "sabotaged," I'm not speaking hyperbolically. The tax-prep industry, led by Intuit, led the fight for 20 years, with their cultlike leader Brad Smith at the forefront of a bribery and intimidation campaign.

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28 Jun
When people call the US Supreme Court "corporate-friendly," it's often hard to know what that means in concrete terms. But here's an example of what it means when the highest court in the land is in the tank for big business.

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Transunion is a giant credit reporting bureau. These companies have their origin in a company called "Retail Credit" (now Equifax). RC paid people to spy on their neighbors and kept secret files on who was a "race mixer," a homosexual, or a political radical.

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These files were sold to employers, financial institutions and landlords to help them discriminate against people for their political, sexual or racial views.

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28 Jun
Say what you will about Congressional partisan divisions, there's one area of unity: the need for self-care.

That's why the House voted to give itself only *9 days* of work between Jul 2 and Sept 19 (the Senate's workaholics will put in 11 days' work out of 75 summer days).

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I get it. It's been a tough 18 months. Who ISN'T tired?

But Congress ALREADY works a three-day week (the remaining two days are spent "dialing for dollars," begging rich people for money in exchange for making policy that benefits the wealthy).

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But Congress has work to do - work like passing the PRO Act, which will help everyday workers win some of the labor rights that Congress takes for granted, like paid vacations, health benefits, and a decent pension.

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28 Jun
This week on my podcast, I read "Qualia," my May, 2021 @locusmag column about quantitative bias, epidemiology, antitrust and drug policy. It's a timely piece, given the six historic antitrust laws that passed the House Judiciary Committee last week:

doctorow.medium.com/moral-hazard-a…

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The pandemic delivered some hard lessons about quantitative bias - that's when you pay attention to the parts of a problem that you can do math on, not because they're the most important, but because you know how to do math.

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The most obvious lesson comes from the failure of exposure notification apps, which were supposed to take the place of "shoe-leather" contact tracing, wherein a public health workers establish personal rapport with infected people to help identify others who might be at risk.

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