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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/10/unn…

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Today (Saturday) at 2PM PT, I'm helping @unshavedmouse launch his debut novel,"When the Sparrow Falls" at an event with @MystGalaxyBooks:
mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

My review:
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Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too: Part of a broad antimonopoly agenda.



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#20yrsago On the care and feeding of hackers demigodllc.com/~zak/geek/hack…

#20yrsago The Extent of Systematic Monitoring of Employee E-mail and Internet Use web.archive.org/web/2001071120…

#20yrsago Marvel Comics isn’t dead yet! web.archive.org/web/2001110618…

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#20yrsago @TimOReilly on Craig Mundie's OSCON keynote web.archive.org/web/2001070110…

#15yrsago BPI: We should be able to cut off your Internet memex.craphound.com/2006/07/10/bpi…

#15yrsago New Atari 2600 game cartridge released quernhorst.de/atari/ac.html
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#15yrsago Dale Bailey's "The Resurrection Man’s Legacy and Other Stories," southern gothic sf memex.craphound.com/2006/07/09/sou…

#10yrsago Mystery of the Haunted Mansion Hatbox Ghost: solved! disneyhistoryinstitute.com/2011/07/actual…

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#5yrsago The week in Pokemon: home invasions, armed robbery, police militarization memex.craphound.com/2016/07/10/the…

#5yrsago Jughead: Zdarsky’s reboot is funny, fannish, and freaky memex.craphound.com/2016/07/10/jug…

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#1yrsago Macron demands national database of porn preferences pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago Clamshell currency pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago How Finspy protects itself from security researchers pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

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#1yrago Police militarization has a business-model pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago Dataminr helped cops spy on protesters with Twitter pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago Teddy Ruxpin and the Haunted Mansion pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

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#1yrago Homebrew dongles let hospitals fix ventilators pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago Muppet Hamilton pluralistic.net/2020/07/09/enh…

#1yrago Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley pluralistic.net/2020/07/09/enh…

#1yrago Cops are buying breach data pluralistic.net/2020/07/09/enh…

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Thursday's threads: Indonesia's gig work tech resistance; Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card; 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:

* Project Abraham book club (to benefit Yezidi refugees):
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* Privacy Without Monopoly, @Defcon 29, Aug 7
defcon.org/html/defcon-29…

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Recent appearances:

* The Bitcoin Podcast:
thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-po…

* The Rent's Too Damned High, @MacroCheese:
realprogressives.org/podcast_episod…

* 3D Printing Sci-Fi, 3DPOD:
3dprint.com/282547/3dpod-e…

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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 @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/2021/07/10/unn…

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

My latest Medium column is "Self Publishing," about the consolidation in publishing and what to do about it

doctorow.medium.com/self-publishin…

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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: @borbulon (twitter.com/borbulon/), @NakedCapitalism).

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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!

Archived at:

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The Firstsecond cover for 'Bea Wolf.'
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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