Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Facebook shouldn't be in charge of how you use Facebook; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/08/unf…

#Pluralistic

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The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!

us.macmillan.com/books/97812507…

Signed copies:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:

sowl.co/uqT2G

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Facebook shouldn't be in charge of how you use Facebook: Unfollow Everything and the need for (good) tech regulation.



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#15yrsago Cheney to Bob Woodward: “That’s bullshit!” [click] web.archive.org/web/2006101620…

#10yrsago WIPO boss: the Web would have been better if it was patented and its users had to pay license fees memex.craphound.com/2011/10/08/wip…

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#5yrsago What it’s like to register to vote in states with voter suppression law bbc.com/news/election-…

#5yrsago Wells Fargo whistleblower describes bank’s culture of blackballing threats and coerced corruption npr.org/sections/money…

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Yesterday's threads: DoS a federal agency, then charge for access; "Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains; and more!



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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

One-month, $30 audiobook bundle with all three Little Brother books:

sowl.co/uqT2G

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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
eventbrite.com/e/from-wayback…

* Keynote for @SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
seagl.org/news/2021/06/0…

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Recent appearances:

* Community & Technology


* Infosec Apocaylpse (We're In podcast)
were-in.simplecast.com/episodes/cory-…

* Walled Culture


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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/2021/10/08/unf…

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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.

My latest Medium column is "Hope, not optimism," a rule-of-thumb-based theory of change.

medium.com/@doctorow/hope…

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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: @JWZ (jwz.org/blog/).

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The @Facebook whistleblower's testimony was refreshing and frightening by turns, revealing the company's awful internal culture, where product design decisions that benefited its users were sidelined if they were bad for its shareholders.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: DoS a federal agency, then charge for access; "Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains; and more!

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

#Pluralistic

1/
The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!

us.macmillan.com/books/97812507…

Signed copies:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:

sowl.co/uqT2G

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DoS a federal agency, then charge for access: Enq carries on a tradition of genuinely terrible startup ideas.



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A key lesson from the #PandoraPapers is that "tax haven" is a gross misnomer. In reality, the distant, finance-blighted treasure islands are not where the dirty money ends up - of course not, there's nothing to buy there.

1/ A laundrette whose floor and walls are skinned with tartan.
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The "offshore" sector is like a pinball flipper - plutes and crooks bounce their money off of these tiny, out-of-the-way places, and they fire it back across the ocean, typically through an "onshore-offshore" secrecy haven.

pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avo…

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