Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Gig workers around the globe; Mutual Aid and David Graeber; Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kro…

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CORRECTION: Yesterday's edition erroneously described the Framework laptop as the first system to receive a 10/10 from Ifixit. A few other laptops have received this rating. I regret the error.

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Gig workers around the globe: One disease, many pathologies.



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Mutual Aid and David Graeber: A new, illustrated edition of Kropotkin's masterpiece, with an introduction from the great, much-missed hero of Occupy.



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Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news: Orwell was an optimist.



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#15yrsago Rented AT&T home phone cost elderly woman $2,000 over 40 years usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2…

#15yrsago French DRM activists surrender to police web.archive.org/web/2007011018…

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#10yrsago Cost of raising middle-income child in USA increases by 40% over ten years money.cnn.com/2011/09/21/pf/…

#5yrsago HTML standardization group calls on W3C to protect security researchers from DRM eff.org/deeplinks/2016…

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#5yrsago I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise memex.craphound.com/2016/09/22/i-h…

#5yrsago China’s elites appear to be exfiltrating billions while on holidays bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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#5yrsago Wells Fargo fired the whistleblowers who reported massive fraud, and that’s a crime money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/inv…

#5yrsago Phoebe and her unicorn are back in Razzle Dazzle Unicorn! memex.craphound.com/2016/09/22/pho…

#1yrago Facebook threatens to leave EU pluralistic.net/2020/09/22/unc…

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#1yrago Uber for evicting people pluralistic.net/2020/09/22/unc…

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Yesterday's threads: The Actual Star; Ignore career advice from established writers; The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever used; 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:

* From Wayback to Way Forward: The @InternetArchive turns 25, Oct 21
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* Keynote for @SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
seagl.org/news/2021/06/0…

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Recent appearances:

* Infosec Apocaylpse (We're In podcast)
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* Walled Culture


* Poesy the Monster Slayer, Turn the Page
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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/2021/09/22/kro…

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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 "Everything is Always Broken, and That’s Okay," about the importance of interoperability to self-determination:

doctorow.medium.com/everything-is-…

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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!

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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: @Learningpillars (twitter.com/LearningPillars).

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The @CACMmag has just published my editorial, "Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants," explaining how interoperability was once an engine for competition and user empowerment - and how that ended.

cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021…

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As the title suggests, regulators are fed up with Big Tech's abuses, but they're not sure what to do about it. One approach is to "fix the companies" - like forcing Facebook to fight "disinformation" or making Google filter all user content for suspected copyright violations.

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The problem with this approach is that it's not clear whether the tech companies CAN solve these problems (for example, no copyright filter can distinguish between permitted uses like parody or commentary and infringing ones).

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Halloween Moon; The music monopolists; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/09/23/rem…

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The Halloween Moon: A YA novel from Nightvale creator Joseph Fink.



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The music monopolists: Thinking outside the antitrust box.



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23 Sep
Writing in @WIRED, @ilsr researcher and anti-monopolist @ronmknox gives a thorough, important account of how music industry monoplization resulted declining revenue for artists, even as the industry itself has reaped greater profits.

wired.com/story/opinion-…

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If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Importantly, Knox describes how concentration has come to every link in music's supply chain, from radio to recording, streaming to live performance. The monopolists who dominate these sectors fight fiercely between each other, but no matter who wins, artists lose.

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23 Sep
In "The Halloween Moon," @NightValeRadio co-creator @PlanetofFinks brings his superb, unmatchable gift for balancing the weird and the real to a spooky middle-grades novel that echoes such classics as @neilhimself's Coraline.

harpercollins.com/products/the-h…

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If you're a stranger to Fink's work, the thing you need to know is that Nightvale and his other projects manage to walk the tightrope between weird, creepypasta-style humor and real pathos, in a gloriously disorienting, reeling storytelling style.

memex.craphound.com/2015/10/20/the…

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The Halloween Moon tells the sale of Esther Gold, a 13 year old who loves Halloween more than anything, and organizes her whole year around it. But this year, her parents have decreed that she is too old for trick-or-treating, a transition she is absolutely unwilling to make.

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