Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Facebook's alternative facts; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/15/thr…

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Facebook's alternative facts: If you don't like your transparency portal's data, shut it down.



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#20yrsago UK lobbyists want "respecting copyright" curriculum in schools web.archive.org/web/2001071813…

#20yrsago Gary Larson on online comics sharing web.archive.org/web/2001061008…

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#5yrsago UK PM Theresa May nukes climate change department, appoints a climate denier as Climate Secretary independent.co.uk/climate-change…

#5yrsago To hell with the Trolley Problem: here’s a much more interesting list of self-driving car weirdnesses medium.com/hidden-in-plai…

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#5yrsago Why do Pokemon avoid Black neighborhoods? bnd.com/news/nation-wo…

#5yrsago For 90 years, lightbulbs were designed to burn out. Now that’s coming to LED bulbs newyorker.com/business/curre…

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#5yrsago San Francisco’s bike lanes have become Uber’s pickup/dropoff zones (and the cops don’t care) sf.streetsblog.org/2016/07/13/col…

#1yrago Poesy slays pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

#1yrago PE's three kids in a trenchcoat fraud pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

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#1yrago Biden's $2T climate plan pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

#1yrago McKinsey waxes fat off coronavirus failures pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

#1yrago Homeschool to prison pipeline pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

#1yrago Spain has been an NSO customer since 2015 pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

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Yesterday's threads: Facebook employees stalk users; 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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Privacy Without Monopoly, @Defcon 29, Aug 7
defcon.org/html/defcon-29…

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Recent appearances:

Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset…

* Trustbusting (@NicoleSandler)


* Launch for @UnshavedMouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks):
crowdcast.io/e/virtual-even…

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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/2021/07/15/thr…

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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.

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My latest @Medium column is "Are We Having Fun Yet?" part one of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.

doctorow.medium.com/b-are-we-havin…

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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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Inside: Interop and the Public Interest Internet; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/16/pid…

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NOTE: I am on holidays until July 26

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Interop and the Public Interest Internet: To fight network effects, reduce switching costs.



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#5yrsago Trump makes it easy to forget what a dumpster fire all the other GOP nomination hopefuls were lrb.co.uk/v38/n15/eliot-…

#1yrago A new contract for land pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/tex…

#1yrago What's in Blueleaks pluralistic.net/2020/07/16/tex…

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16 Jul
When we talk about the internet's problems and solutions, we tend to focus on Big Tech, the monopolizers who dominate our digital lives. That's only natural.

But there's another internet, one that deserves our attention: The Public Interest Internet.

eff.org/issues/public-…

1/ EFF's 'Public Interest Inte...
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The Public Interest Internet is a "wider, more diverse, more generous world. Often run by volunteers, frequently without any institutional affiliation, sometimes tiny, often local, but free for everyone online to use and contribute to, this internet preceded big tech."

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15 Jul
Facebook acquired a company called Crowdtangle in 2016; it makes a social media analytics tool that the press has used to monitor subject-matter trends on Facebook, especially in the runup to the 2020 elections.

Facebook just gutted Crowtangle.

nytimes.com/2021/07/14/tec…

1/ The Facebook '1 Hacker Way' sign, before it sit the Three Wi
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Crowdtangle had operated as a semiautonomous unit within Facebook, primarily used by media companies to track the social media performance of their stories. A turning point came when the @nytimes's @kevinroose figured out how to rank posts that included links to the real web.

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