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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Oct 18, 2021 • 28 tweets • 25 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Corporatism made Deere ripe for a strike; Copyfraudster censors investigation of covid gadget; At last, a new Econ 101 textbook; Podcasting "Dead Letters"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/18/lab…

#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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Corporatism made John Deere ripe for a strike: Optimized for failure.



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Copyfraudster censors investigation of implausible covid gadget: When a US law is used to censor Indian scientific reporting.



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At last, a new Econ 101 textbook: CORE's "The Economy" vs homo economicus.



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Podcasting "Dead Letters": Email could be the last federated internet technology - but it isn't.



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#20yrsago Linux on a Big Mouth Billy Bass fish web.archive.org/web/2001090223…

#15yrsago How pickpockets work web.archive.org/web/2007011002…

#10yrsago Advice to the 1% from Lemony Snicket occupywriters.com/works/by-lemon…

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#10yrsago Proposed Australian law makes it an offense to insult Gaming Minister Michael O’Brien web.archive.org/web/2012050716…

#10yrsago EU vs Facebook: Facebook’s dossiers on Europeans breach EU privacy laws identityblog.com/?p=1201

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#10yrsago Aloha From Hell: Sandman Slim goes back to Hell and kicks more ass memex.craphound.com/2011/10/18/alo…

#10yrsago Why are more people opting for legal name-changes than ever before? bbc.com/news/magazine-…

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#5yrsago Everything Belongs to the Future: a tale of pharmadystopian, immortal gerontocrats memex.craphound.com/2016/10/18/eve…

#5yrsago Wrong things that programmers believe, a curated list github.com/kdeldycke/awes…

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#5yrsago UK government proposes issuing Britons with unique porn-viewing ID numbers openrightsgroup.org/blog/a-databas…

#5yrsago Islamophobic terrorist cell planned a “bloodbath” in Kansas, wanted to kill Muslim babies washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…

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#5yrsago UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal says GHCQ illegally spied for 17 years https

#5yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson says Elon Musk’s Mars plan is a “1920s science-fiction cliché” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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#5yrsago Matt Taibbi on Trump’s “fury and failure” rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

#5yrsago Howard Stern won’t release Trump tapes billboard.com/articles/news/…

#1yrago Happy World Standards Day or not pluralistic.net/2020/10/18/mid…

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#5yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson says Elon Musk’s Mars plan is a “1920s science-fiction cliché” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago Matt Taibbi on Trump’s “fury and failure” rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

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#5yrsago Howard Stern won’t release Trump tapes billboard.com/articles/news/…

#1yrago Happy World Standards Day or not pluralistic.net/2020/10/18/mid…

#1yrago Educator sued for criticising "invigilation" tool pluralistic.net/2020/10/17/pro…

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Saturday's threads: The Chicago Tribune is being murdered before our eyes; 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…

* Lessons from the First Internet Ages (@Knightfndn), Nov 2-3
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/…

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

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Recent appearances:

* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress
techpolicy.press/podcast/

* @InternetArchive:


* Trom:
videos.trom.tf/w/2vBxVQTa4hfC…

* This Week in Google
open.spotify.com/show/0lTcKFcbc…

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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/2021/10/18/lab…

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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 "Against the great forces of history," What @AdaPalmer’s University of Chicago Papal election LARP can teach us about our own future

medium.com/@doctorow/agai…

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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), @MattFlood (twitter.com/mattflood).

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My latest *Locus Magazine* column is "Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives," about the secret engine of sweeping political upheavals (like Trumpism) and their inherent fragility:



1/ locusmag.com/2025/05/commen…A Renaissance oil-painting of the assassination of Julius Caesar, modified to give Caesar Trump's hair and turn his skin orange, to make the knives glow, and to emboss a Heritage Foundation logo on the wall behind the scene.
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Something's very different in tech. Once upon a time, every bad choice by tech companies - taking away features, locking out mods or plugins, nerfing the API - was countered, nearly instantaneously, by someone writing a program that overrode that choice.

1/ A 19th century engraving of fiendishly complex machine composed of thousands of interlocking gears and frames (originally an image of a printing press, but modified so that it's just all gears and things), colored dark blue. It bears Woody Guthrie's guitar sticker, 'This machine KILLS fascists. To one side of it stands an image of Ned Ludd, taken from an infamous 19th century Luddite handbill, waving troops into battle. King Ludd's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie, the face within lost in shadow.
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Bad clients would be muscled aside by third-party clients. Locked bootloaders would be hacked and replaced. Code that confirmed you were using OEM parts, consumables or adapters would be found and nuked from orbit.

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"Understood: Who Broke the Internet?" is my new podcast for CBC about the enshittogenic policy decisions that gave rise to enshittification. Episode two just dropped: "ctrl-ctrl-ctrl":



1/ cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod…The logo for 'Who Broke the Internet' - a shattered hard-drive with the CBC logomark.
If you'd like an essay-formatted 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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The thesis of the show is straightforward: the internet wasn't killed by ideological failings like "greed," nor by economic concepts like "network effects," nor by some cyclic force of history that drives towards "re-intermediation."

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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Inside: AI and the fatfinger economy; and more!

Archived at:

#Pluralistic

1/ pluralistic.net/2025/05/02/kpi…A leg-hold trap whose trigger disc has been replaced with the hostile, glaring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' A giant man's finger enters the frame from one corner, aimed at the trigger. Image: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Index_finger_%3D_to_attention.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en -- Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

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3/ Image: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Index_finger_%3D_to_attention.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en -- 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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Patrick "patio11" McKenzie is a fantastic explainer, the kind of person who breaks topics down in ways that stay with you, and creep into your understanding of other subjects, too. Take his 2022 essay, "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero":



1/ bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optima…A rainforest in Chiapas, green and intergrown.
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It's a very well-argued piece, and here's the nut of it:

> The marginal return of permitting fraud against you is plausibly greater than zero, and therefore, you should welcome greater than zero fraud.

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Astrophysicist Adam Becker knows a bit about science and tech - enough to show, in his book *More Everything Forever* that claims tech bros make about space colonies, mind uploading, and other skiffy subjects are nonsense dressed up as prediction:



1/ hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-be…The Basic Books cover for Adam Becker's 'More Everything Faster.'
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