Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Scammers sell griefers social media banning services; Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get…

#Pluralistic

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I'm giving the keynote for the (free) virtual track at Defcon 29 (Aug 5-8): "Privacy Without Monopoly: Paternalism Works Well, But Fails Badly."

defcon.org/html/defcon-29…

It's based on the white paper Bennett Cyphers and I co-wrote for EFF:

eff.org/wp/interoperab…

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Scammers sell griefers social media banning services: And charge their victims 100x more to get un-banned.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1423676918453313544

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Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke: Especially compared with the independent Ad Obervatory, which the company wants to destroy.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1423687342796152839

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#20yrsago Steve Ballmer: "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS" ntk.net/ballmer/dancem…

#10yrsago $300 Million Button: making customers create logins to buy cost etailer $300M/year web.archive.org/web/2009012201…

#5yrsago How and why to short Uber qz.com/707947/investo…

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#1yrago Stiglitz quits Panama’s official money-laundering panel over internal sabotage reuters.com/article/us-pan…

#1yrago Web companies can track you — and price-gouge you — based on your battery life cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publi…

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#5yrsago 1 billion computer monitors vulnerable to undetectable firmware attacks defcon.org/html/defcon-24…

#1yrago Qanon is an ARG (pt II) pluralistic.net/2020/08/06/no-…

#1yrago NY AG wants to dissolve NRA pluralistic.net/2020/08/06/no-…

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#1yrago Writers Guild vanquishes a major agency pluralistic.net/2020/08/06/no-…

#1yrago Ventilation vs covid pluralistic.net/2020/08/06/no-…

#1yrago NY State's promising new antitrust law pluralistic.net/2020/08/06/no-…

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Yesterday's threads: Meet the new generation of pro-abortion activists; Anti-vaxers cool the mark; Drone delivery crashes; Facebook escalates war on accountability; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1423360580786692096

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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

* Launch for @Ben_Rosenbaum's The Unraveling, Aug 23 (@Booksoup)
booksoup.com/event/benjamin…

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Recent appearances:

* Building the Digital Commons (@moneyontheleft)
moneyontheleft.org/2021/08/01/bui…

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

* Trustbusting (@NicoleSandler)


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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/2021/08/06/get…

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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 "Managing aggregate demand," part three of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.

doctorow.medium.com/managing-aggre…

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @[e-mail].

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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