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Cory Doctorow PO-FACED MENTALITY

@doctorow

2 Dec

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Massive Predpol leak confirms that it drives racist policing; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/12/02/emp…

#Pluralistic 1/

@DarkDel

I'm going overseas for work on Dec 7, which means time to order signed/personalized copies of my books from @DarkDel is running out!

Attack Surface:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

Little Brother/Homeland:
darkdel.com/store/p1750/Co… 2/

How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Co…

Poesy the Monster Slayer:
darkdel.com/store/p1562/_P… 3/

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Cory Doctorow PO-FACED MENTALITY

@doctorow

2 Dec

When you or I seek out evidence to back up our existing beliefs and ignore the evidence that shows we're wrong, it's called "confirmation bias." 1/

It's a well-understood phenomenon that none of us are immune to, and thoughtful people put a lot of effort into countering it in themselves. 2/

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:

pluralistic.net/2021/12/02/emp… 3/

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Cory Doctorow PO-FACED MENTALITY

@doctorow

1 Dec

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Fintech is a scam, a listicle in eight parts; Teaching thread management with puzzle games; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/12/01/sat…

#Pluralistic 1/

@darkdel

I'm going overseas for work on Dec 7, which means time to order signed/personalized copies of my books from @darkdel is running out!

Attack Surface:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

Little Brother/Homeland:
darkdel.com/store/p1750/Co… 2/

How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Co…

Poesy the Monster Slayer:
darkdel.com/store/p1562/_P… 3/

Read 25 tweets

Cory Doctorow PO-FACED MENTALITY

@doctorow

1 Dec

I fell in love with computers in the mid-1970s, starting when I was six and my dad brought home a teletype that could connect to his university's mainframe with an acoustic coupler - a kind of proto-modem with a cradle that fit our kitchen's rotary-dial phone handset. 1/

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:

pluralistic.net/2021/12/01/sat… 2/

The next phase was the CARDIAC, a cardboard computer that you punched out, assembled and operated, following instructions to move counters around registers and solve simple computation problems:

instructables.com/CARDIAC-CARDbo… 3/

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Cory Doctorow PO-FACED MENTALITY

@doctorow

1 Dec

The world's economy ground to a halt during the pandemic as millions died, production slowed or stopped altogether, and the resulting supply chain disruptions made many essential products and services impossible to deliver. 1/

And yet, the world's billionaires added $5.5b to their net worth during that time.

ips-dc.org/global-billion… 2/

Thank "financialization," the subordination of the real economy - the economy that makes and delivers the things we need - to the financial economy, a global high-stakes casino where wanton destruction of businesses and lives can be a path to unimaginable wealth and power. 3/

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