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Oct 26, 2021 • 22 tweets • 18 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/26/ine…

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

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Signed copies:

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

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Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt: Or, why countries are spending more on "border security" than the climate emergency.

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#15yrsago This Week in Law, a new podcast twit.tv/shows/this-wee…

#10yrsago NewsCorp shareholders revolt against Murdoch family pressgazette.co.uk/a-very-difficu…

#10yrsago The Homeland Directive: taut technothriller for the paranoid era memex.craphound.com/2011/10/25/the… 4/
#5yrsago Lawsuit: mayor’s social media blocklists are public records techdirt.com/articles/20161…

#5yrsago EFF asks court to let American sue Ethiopia for hacking his computer and rounding up his friends eff.org/press/releases… 5/
#5yrsago When Californians vote on legal weed, they’ll also vote on wiping millions of arrest records vice.com/en/article/3da…

#5yrsago Al Franken and FCC commissioner Clyburn want limits on forced arbitration arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 6/
#5yrsago Mercedes’ weird “Trolley Problem” announcement continues dumb debate about self-driving cars memex.craphound.com/2016/10/25/mer…

#5yrsago RIP science fiction great Sheri Tepper locusmag.com/2016/10/sheri-…

#1yrago Facebook threatens ad-transparency group pluralistic.net/2020/10/25/mus… 7/
#1yrago The madness of elite varsity sports (HOAX!) pluralistic.net/2020/10/25/mus… 8/
Yesterday's threads: The Dems' most secret Congressional committee; Podcasting "Against The Great Forces of History"; 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:

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

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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:

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Signed copies here:
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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Lessons from the First Internet Ages (@KnightFndn), Nov 2-3
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* Keynote for @SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
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* Anti-Dystopian Congress (@GoetheInstitut), Nov 10-12
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Recent appearances:

* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):


* Making Money (@DIDiscworld)
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* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress
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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… 15/
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/2021/10/26/ine… 16/
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. 17/
My latest @Medium column is "The Traitorous Eight and the Battle of Germanium Valley," How California's ban on non-competes saved the tech industry from eugenics.

medium.com/@doctorow/a-th… 18/
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! 19/
Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 20/
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… 21/
Today's top sources: @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com). 22/

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Epic Systems makes the dominant electronic health record (EHR) system in America; if you're a doctor, chances are you're *required* to use it. For each hour a doctor spends with a patient, they spend *two* hours on clinically useless bureaucratic data-entry on an Epic EHR.

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How could a product so manifestly unfit for purpose be the absolute market leader? Simple: as @kuttnerwrites describes in an excellent feature in @TheProspect, Epic may be a *clinical* disaster, but it's a profit-generating *miracle*:



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The American Dream, such as it is, used to be *two* dreams, one based on work and solidarity, the other on asset appreciation and disconnected individualism. We killed the first one.

1/ A rotting apartment living room; the Wall Street 'Charging Bull' statue is in one corner; from one of its horns dangles a sign reading 'FOR RENT WALL ST.' Through a crumbling doorway, we see an aristocrat laid out on a guillotine, about to be beheaded. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ Carlos Delgado (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_-_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg
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As the New Deal gave way to the post-war social safety net, Americans discovered two paths to social mobility: they could join a union, and they could buy a home. Joining a union meant that your wages would rise with productivity.

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Denise Prudhomme's bosses at Wells Fargo insisted that the in-person camaraderie of their offices warranted a mandatory return-to-office policy, but when she died at her desk in her Tempe, AZ office, no one noticed for four days.

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That was in August. Now, Wells Fargo United has published a statement on her death, one that vibrates with anger at the callously selective surveillance that Wells Fargo inflicts on its workforce:



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In Canto 20 of *Inferno*, Dante confronts a pit where the sinners have had their heads twisted around backwards; they trudge, naked and weeping, through puddles of cooling tears.

1/ Giovanni Stradano's 1587 illustration of Canto 20 of Dante's *Inferno*, depicting the fortunetellers in the 4th Bolgia (pit) their heads rotated 180' on their necks, forced ever to walk in circles, looking backwards.
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In a completely unrelated subject, how about those election pollsters, huh?

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