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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Bankruptcy and elite impunity; Stories from Black women's customer service hell; Tracking you with accelerometer signatures; Unauthorized cups; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/imp…

#Pluralistic

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Bankruptcy and elite impunity: The Sacklers offer billions of reasons to overthrow the system.



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Stories from Black women's customer service hell: The women who answer the phone when you call Disney, Airbnb, Carnival and others.



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Tracking you with accelerometer signatures: Yet another latent unique identifier with horrifying consequences.



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Unauthorized cups: RFID-equipped disposable cups deny water to homeless people.



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#20yrsago How to help someone use a computer pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/h…

#20yrsago Declines in advertising in major magazines in the first six months of 2001 web.archive.org/web/2001071410…

#15yrsago Cingular threatens Consumerist over “how to discriminate” docs consumerist.com/consumer/cd/ci…

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#10yrsago Batman logo in equation form reddit.com/r/pics/comment…

#10yrsago Bill Nye explains to Fox News why lunar volcanoes don’t disprove anthropogenic global warming web.archive.org/web/2011092418…

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#10yrsago House Committee passes bill requiring your ISP to spy on every click and keystroke you make online and retain for 12 months eff.org/deeplinks/2011…

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#10yrsago Vindictive WalMart erroneously accuses couple of shoplifting, has husband deported, wife fired, costs them house and car web.archive.org/web/2011100210…

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#10yrsago Man with camera in park who fled angry parent sought by police (turns out he was taking pix of his grandson) web.archive.org/web/2011082905…

#10yrsago Copyright extortionist ripped off his competitor’s threatening material torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-la…

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#10yrsago US ISP/copyright deal: a one-sided private law for corporations, without public interest eff.org/deeplinks/2011…

#10yrsago Why they call the Tories “the nasty party” theguardian.com/uk/2011/jul/28…

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#5yrsago The Ice Bucket Challenge did not fund a breakthrough in ALS treatment healthnewsreview.org/2016/07/ice-bu…

#5yrsago Silicon Valley banks offer tech giants’ new hires 100% mortgages on 24 hours’ notice bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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#5yrsago RIP, MAD Magazines’s Jack Davis bbc.com/news/entertain…

#5yrsago Laurie Penny at the DNC: “Dissent will not be tolerated. Protest will not be permitted.” medium.com/welcome-to-the…

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#5yrsago North Carolina’s voter suppression law struck down as “racist” cnn.com/2016/07/29/pol…

#5yrsago Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calls Apple’s tax strategy a “fraud” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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#5yrsago Trump campaign frisks, then blocks ticketed Washington Post reporter at Pence rally washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w…

#5yrsago Pregnancy-tracking app was riddled with vulnerabilities, exposing extremely sensitive personal information consumerreports.org/mobile-securit…

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#1yrago Bitcoin is not a socialist's ally pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…

#1yrago No consequences for police violence at BLM actions pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…

#1yrago Let's force Big Tech to interoperate pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…

#1yrago Break 'Em Up pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…

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#1yrago Police "unions" are not unions pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…

#1yrago Snowden's Little Brother intro pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…

#1yrago Audible Exclusives pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…

#1yrago Mexican copyright crushes free speech pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…

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#1yrago Afterland pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/aft…

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Tuesday's threads: What would a live concert album sound like with all the songs taken out?; The infosec apocalypse is nigh; 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:

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

* Keynote speaker, The Quills Conference, Aug 12-15
quillsconference.com

* From Wayback to Way Forward: The @InternetArchive turns 25, Oct 21
eventbrite.com/e/from-wayback…

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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 @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/2021/07/29/imp…

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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 "Now you’ve got two problems," part three of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.

doctorow.medium.com/now-youve-got-…

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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: @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), @GlennF, @Sophpsych, @TheBekku, @SeamusBellamy, @hipsterelectron and @aggrowill.

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Feb 5
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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Inside: MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing; and more!

Archived at:

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1/ pluralistic.net/2025/02/04/pow…A vintage ad for Amway Nutrilite supplements; the illustration in the center of the ad has been replaced with a WPA mural depicting trade unionists rising up against capitalism.
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MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing: In the mirror world, community organizers are community predators.



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Jan 27
If Elon Musk wants to cut $2t from the US federal budget, there's a pretty straightforward way to get there - just eliminate all the beltway bandits who overcharge Uncle Sucker for everything from pharma to roads to (of course) rockets, and make the rich pay their taxes.

1/ A highwayman in a tailcoat and top-hat with Elon Musk's laughing face points a pair of oversized revolvers at a bent-double Uncle Sam, his face a bitter mask; Sam is being crushed under a small mountain of variegated fardels, e.g., large sacks, barrels, and railroad rails. In the background is a halftoned image of a Falcon Heavy rocket plummeting out of the sky, chased by a plume of flame. Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/52005460639/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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There *is* a ton of federal bloat, but it's not coming from useless programs or overpaid federal employees.

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Jan 25
The core regulatory proposition of the tech industry is "it's not a crime if we do it with an app." It's not an unlicensed taxi if we do it with an app. It's not an illegal hotel room if we do it with an app.

1/ Two caricatures of top-hatted millionaires whose bodies are bulging money-sacks. Their heads have been replaced with potatoes. The potatoes' eyes have been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' They stand in a potato field filled with stoop laborers. The sky is a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. 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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It's not an unregistered security if we do it with an app. It's not wage theft if we do it with an app.

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Jan 24
"Boss politics" are a feature of corrupt societies. When a society is dominated by self-dealing, corrupt institutions, strongman leaders can seize control by appealing to the public's fury and desperation.

1/ An altered version of a Gilded Age editorial cartoon titled 'Who controls the Senate?' which depicts the Senate as populated by tiny, ineffectual politicians ringed by massive, bloated, brooding monopolists. A door labeled 'people's entrance.' is firmly locked. A sign reads, 'This is a senate of the monopolists, by the monopolists and for the monopolists.' The image has been altered: an editorial cartoon of Boss Tweed, portrayed as a portly man in a business suit with a money-bag for a head, stands in the foreground. He is wearing a MAGA hat. On his shoulder perches a tiny, 'big stick' swin...
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Then, the boss can selectively punish corrupt entities that oppose him, and since *everyone* is corrupt, these will be valid prosecutions.

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Jan 22
Turns out Donald Trump isn't the only world leader with a tech billionaire "first buddy" who gets to serve as an unaccountable, self-interested de facto business regulator. UK PM Kier Starmer has just handed the keys to the British economy over to Jeff Bezos.

1/ A vintage Puck cover illustration depicting a tophatted millionaire as a puppeteer, operating two marionettes, one dressed as a general, the other as a businessman. It has been altered: the puppeteer's face has been replaced with Jeff Bezos's. The general marionette's face has been replaced with Keir Starmer's. The other marionette's face has been replaced with a vintage oil pastel drawing of an outraged bricklayer in a folded paper hat. The puppet theater is surmounted by the UK royal crest. Image: UK Parliament/Maria Unger (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keir_Starmer_...
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Oh, not literally. But here's what's happened: the UK's Competitions and Markets Authority, an organisation charged with investigating and punishing tech monopolists (like Amazon) has just been turned over to Doug Gurr, the guy who used to run Amazon UK.

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Jan 20
Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us *wish* we could leave them; and even those of us who've escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too.

1/ A page out of a medieval hand-illuminated grimoire; it is an illustration of a tree, with each branch terminating in a demon; these branches are annotated in an unknown script. The demons have been replaced with 19th century caricatures of shouting millionaire industrialists.
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It's lazy and easy to think that our friends who are stuck on legacy platforms run by Zuckerberg and Musk lack the self-discipline to wean themselves off of these services.

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