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Jan 5, 2022 • 17 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Hospital beds are a monopoly; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/01/05/hil…

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Note: I'm having my (other) hip replaced on Jan 11 and I've got a LOT of work to clear up between now and then. This may (or may not!) be the last edition of Pluralistic until I'm recovered from the surgery. 2/
Hospital beds are a monopoly: The casket to hospital bed monopoly pipeline.

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#15yrsago Doonesbury: the GW Bush years memex.craphound.com/2007/01/05/doo…

#5yrsago Around the world, old, rural voters count more than young people in cities users.polisci.umn.edu/~dsamuels/BJPS… 4/ Image
#5yrsago America’s gargantuan new corporate landlords evict the shit out of Americans bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago 4chan’s trumpist trolls are exploiting the Ghost Ship fire to narc out other DIY venues vice.com/en/article/d7j… 5/ Image
#1yrago Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers" pluralistic.net/2021/01/05/man…

#1yrago Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism pluralistic.net/2021/01/05/man… 6/ Image
Yesterday's threads: Science fiction is a Luddite literature; Neal Stephenson's 'Termination Shock'; Stellar images of quack exercise machines; 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… 8/
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… 9/ Image
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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Recent appearances:

* Moral Panic (@Drug_Science Podcast)
drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-mor…

* @HappenHerePod
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* Privacy, online platforms & misinformation (@NorthSec_io 2021)
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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… 12/ Image
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/2022/01/05/hil… 13/
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. 14/
My latest @Medium column is "The Internet Heist (Part I): The early days of the war to control the future"

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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!

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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… 17/

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Jul 26
Three companies control the market for school lunch payments. They take as much as 60 cents out of every dollar poor kids' parents put into the system to the tune of $100m/year. They're literally stealing poor kids' lunch money.

1/ On the left, a boxer in trunks, fists raised. His head has been replaced with the staring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' He wears a top hat. On the right, a squinting child in 19th century ragamuffin garb. Behind the boxer, a cascade of gold coins pours out of a giant sack. Beside the kid, a piggy bank. They stand in a school playground with a tumbledown tenement behind it. Image: 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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In its latest report, the @CFPB describes this scam in eye-watering, blood-boiling detail:



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Jul 25
When I took my kid to New Zealand with me on a book-tour, I was delighted to learn that grocery stores had special aisles where all the kids'-eye-level candy had been removed, to minimize nagging. What a great idea!

1/ A medieval tapestry depicting an overseer gesturing imperiously with his stick at three bent peasants who are grubbing in a field. The image has been altered. Contrasts and colors have been pushed into psychedelic pinks, greens and blues. Part of the tapestry fades into a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. The overseer's head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.or...
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Related: countries around the world limit advertising to children, for two reasons:

1) Kids may not be stupid, but they are inexperienced, and that makes them gullible; and

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Jul 18
The telegraph and the telephone have a special place in the history and future of competition and Big Tech. After all, they were the original tech monopolists. Every discussion of tech and monopoly takes place in their shadow.

1/ The cover of the Harvard University Press edition of Richard R Johns's 'Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications.'
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Back in 2010, @SuperWuster published *The Master Switch*, his bestselling, wildly influential history of "The Bell System" and the struggle to de-monopolize America from its first telecoms barons:



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Jul 14
Like you, I've heard a *lot* about Project 2025, Heritage Foundation's roadmap for Trump, should he win the presidency. Given the Heritage Foundation's centrality to the American authoritarian project, it's about as awful and frightening as you might expect.

1/ An X-ray of a broken femur. On either side of the fracture is a elephant (cropped from a medieval illumination) facing one another, in the livery of the GOP logo.
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But (nearly) all the reporting and commentary on Project 2025 badly misses the point.

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Jun 28
In 2017, Equifax suffered the worst breach in history, leaking the deep, nonconsensual dossiers it had compiled on 148m Americans, 15m Britons and 19k Canadians, to form an immortal, undeletable reservoir of kompromat and readymade identity-theft:



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A Depression-era photo of a used car lot with three cars for sale. It has been hand-tinted. The sky has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. All of the car headlights have been replaced with the hostile red eye of 'HAL 9000' in Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: 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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Equifax knew the breach was coming. It wasn't just their top execs liquidating their stock in Equifax before the announcement of the breach - it was also that they ignored *years* of increasingly urgent warnings from IT staff about the problems with their server security.

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Jun 27
We're living through one of those moments when millions of people become suddenly and overwhelmingly interested in fair use, one of the subtlest and worst-understood aspects of copyright law. It's not a subject you can master by skimming a Wikipedia article!

1/ EFF's banner for the 'Unfiltered' white paper, depicting TV static overlaid with a parody of the Youtube logo and wordmark, but instead of 'Youtube' it reads 'Fair Use,' with glitched vertical and horizontal sync that distorts the logo. Image: EFF https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/yt-fu-1b.png CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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I've been talking fair use with laypeople for decades. I've met so many people with the unshakable, serene confidence of the *truly* wrong, like those who think fair use means you can always take x words from a book, or y seconds from a song, and no more.

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