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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
@doctorow
Dec 7, 2021 • 30 tweets • 24 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Give Me Slack"; A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime"; IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/sol…

#Pluralistic

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I'm going overseas for work on Dec 8, 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…

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

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

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Podcasting "Give Me Slack": On the parenting challenges of an era without second chances.



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A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime": Compliance, risk, white collar crime...



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IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers: But Karan Menon has their number.



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#20yrsago Busting the WSJ’s FUD on open 802.11 networks web.archive.org/web/2002011122…

#20yrsago The post-PC interface web.archive.org/web/2002011816…

#20yrsago Chris Raettig on KPMG's linking legal threats web.archive.org/web/2002020714…

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#15yrsago Canada’s documentaries lost to copyright web.archive.org/web/2006120900…

#10yrsago Business Software Alliance fractures over SOPA support cnet.com/news/kaspersky…

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#10yrsago Planesrunner: Ian McDonald’s YA debut is full of action-packed multidimensional cool, airships, electropunk and quantum physics memex.craphound.com/2011/12/06/pla…

#10yrsago Petition to get a pardon for Turing’s “gross indecency” conviction web.archive.org/web/2012011018…

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#10yrsago Derek Kirk Kim’s Same Difference: slacker Korean-American kids come of age in the Bay Area memex.craphound.com/2011/12/07/der…

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#10yrsago On Jan 1, awesome stuff will enter the public domain: HG Wells, Gertrude Stein, Buster Keaton, Walt Disney, Lenny Bruce (but not in the USA) publicdomainreview.org/collection/cla…

#10yrsago AT&T is the worst carrier in America. Again. ibtimes.com/verizon-wirele…

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#5yrsago Mr Robot has driven a stake through the Hollywood hacker, and not a moment too soon technologyreview.com/2016/12/07/155…

#5yrsago Learning about the internal culture of the NSA from 262 leaked articles from its internal employee newsletter theintercept.com/2016/12/07/dro…

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#5yrsago The kickstarted Pebble smartwatch is now a division of Fitbit, so they may “reduce functionality” on all the watches they ever sold kickstarter.com/projects/59750…

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#5yrsago For two years, criminals stole sensitive information using malware hidden in individual pixels of ad banners welivesecurity.com/2016/12/06/rea…

#5yrsago Italy’s referendum: a vote against neoliberalism and authoritarianism jacobinmag.com/2016/12/italy-…

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#5yrsago Quitting Facebook feels GREAT mathbabe.org/2016/12/06/i-q…

#5yrsago Stop calling it “Puppy-Burning” — it’s the “Alt-Warmth Movement” mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-i…

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#5yrsago dj BC has your Christmas mashups covered with this year’s amazing Santastic holiday music sampler djbc.net/christmash/

#1yrago China’s war on big data backstabbing pluralistic.net/2020/12/07/bac…

#1yrago The largest strike in human history pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/sur…

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#1yrago Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/sur…
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Sunday's threads: When you hear "one size fits all," think "universal"; 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…

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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:

* @intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20…

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Recent appearances:

* Seize the Means of Computation (@SeaGL)
seagl.org/archive/2021/s…

* Redistribute the Internet (@NGIForward Summit)
vimeo.com/651018259

* NFTs (@UpstreamPodcast)
soundcloud.com/upstreampodcas…

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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…
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/2021/12/07/sol…
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 "Pandemic of the Unvaccinated":

medium.com/@doctorow/pand…
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…
Today's top sources: @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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Jan 22
Turns out Donald Trump isn't the only world leader with a tech billionaire "first buddy" who gets to serve as an unaccountable, self-interested de facto business regulator. UK PM Kier Starmer has just handed the keys to the British economy over to Jeff Bezos.

1/ A vintage Puck cover illustration depicting a tophatted millionaire as a puppeteer, operating two marionettes, one dressed as a general, the other as a businessman. It has been altered: the puppeteer's face has been replaced with Jeff Bezos's. The general marionette's face has been replaced with Keir Starmer's. The other marionette's face has been replaced with a vintage oil pastel drawing of an outraged bricklayer in a folded paper hat. The puppet theater is surmounted by the UK royal crest. Image: UK Parliament/Maria Unger (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keir_Starmer_...
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Oh, not literally. But here's what's happened: the UK's Competitions and Markets Authority, an organisation charged with investigating and punishing tech monopolists (like Amazon) has just been turned over to Doug Gurr, the guy who used to run Amazon UK.

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Jan 20
Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us *wish* we could leave them; and even those of us who've escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too.

1/ A page out of a medieval hand-illuminated grimoire; it is an illustration of a tree, with each branch terminating in a demon; these branches are annotated in an unknown script. The demons have been replaced with 19th century caricatures of shouting millionaire industrialists.
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It's lazy and easy to think that our friends who are stuck on legacy platforms run by Zuckerberg and Musk lack the self-discipline to wean themselves off of these services.

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Jan 18
We're less than a month into 2025 and I'm already overwhelmed by my backlog of links! Herewith, then, is my 25th linkdump post, a grab-bag of artful transitions between miscellaneous subjects. Here's the previous 24:



1/ pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/A pile of miscellaneous junk. Image: Jen (cropped) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jenrab/4877784036 CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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Five years ago, Trump touted his "big, beautiful" replacement for NAFTA, the "free trade agreement" between the US, Mexico and Canada. Trump's NAFTA-2 was called the USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada Agreement) and it was pretty similar to NAFTA, to be honest.

1/ A 19th century painting depicting the burning of the White House during the War of 1812. The white Xes on the soldiers' uniforms have been replaced with white Canadian maple leaves.
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That tells you a couple things: first, NAFTA was, broadly speaking a good thing for Trump and the ultra-wealthy donors who backed him (and got far richer as a result). That's why he kept it intact.

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During the Napster wars, the record labels *seriously* pissed off millions of internet users when they sued over 19,000 music fans, mostly kids, but also grannies, old people, and dead people.

1/ A multiton bank vault door set in a red room. Within the vault, we see a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. In front of the fault is a ghoulish, skull-faced figure in a tailcoat and a red sash, holding a tube that is vomiting out a poorly differentiated stream of rubbish and slop.
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Jan 11
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1/ A Soviet propaganda poster depicting two workers holding flags in front of a locomotive. The flags have been replaced with US flags. The locomotive's face has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The maxim below has been replaced with the lettering from a Walmart 'everyday low prices' sign. The background has been replaced with a posterized grocery aisle. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao (modified) ht...
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In other words, economics is the "look what you made me do" stick that capitalism uses to beat us with.

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