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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The battle for Ring Zero; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/01/30/rin…

#Pluralistic

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The battle for Ring Zero: The esoteric argument I have been having with myself since 2002.



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#20yrsago The guy who stole s-e-x.com says he can't afford a lawyer web.archive.org/web/2002020118…

#20yrsago Wired Wellington, a citywide, publicly owned fiber network web.archive.org/web/2002020713…

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#5yrsago Google quietly makes “optional” web DRM mandatory in Chrome news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135144…

#5yrsago Beyond the Trolley Problem: Three realistic, near-future ethical dilemmas about self-driving cars rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-con…

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#5yrsago “Work ethic”: Minutes from 2011 meeting reveal Federal Reserve bankers making fun of unemployed Americans theintercept.com/2017/01/27/fed…

#1yrago Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/mem…

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#1yrago Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/mem…

#1yrago Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/mem…

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Yesterday's threads: No, payday lenders aren't nice guys; The Right to Repair; 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:

* @boskonenews 59 (Feb 18-20)
boskone.org/program/schedu…

* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical SF, 1950 to 1985 (@CityLightsBooks), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero…

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com

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Recent appearances:

* The End of Uber (@TheWarOnCars)
thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the…

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

* @HappenHerePod
iheart.com/podcast/1119-i…

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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/2022/01/30/rin…

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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 "A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator"

doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early…

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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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There's a truly comforting sociopathy snuggled inside capitalism ideology: if markets are systems for identifying and rewarding virtue, ability and value, then anyone who's failing in the system is actually *unworthy*, not unlucky.

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That means the winners are not just lucky (and certainly not merely selfish), but actually *the best* and they owe nothing to their social inferiors apart from what their own charitable impulses dictate.

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Jun 13
The US has the rich world's most expensive health care system, and that system delivers the worst health outcomes of any country in the rich world.

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Also, the US is unique in relying on market forces as the primary regulator of its health care system. All of these facts are related!

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Jun 12
The problem with good news in the real world is that it's *messy*. Neat happy endings are for novels, not the real world, and that goes double for the climate emergency.

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But even though good climate news is complicated and nuanced, that doesn't mean it shouldn't buoy our spirits and fill our hearts with hope.

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Jun 10
Let's take a sec here and notice something *genuinely great* happening in the US government: the @CFPB's stunning, unbroken streak of *major*, muscular victories over the forces of corporate corruption.

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Amazingly, they're doing this *with* the backing of the Supreme Court (yes, *that* Supreme Court), and they're only speeding up!

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Look, no one wants to kick Big Tech to the curb more than I do, but, also: it's *good* that Google indexes the news so people can find it, and it's *good* that Facebook provides forums where people can talk about the news.

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It's not news if you can't find it. It's not news if you can't talk about it. We don't call information you can't find or discuss "news" - we call it "secrets."

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Noted anti-capitalist agitator Adam Smith had it right: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

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Despite being a raving commie loon, Smith's observation was so undeniably true that regulators, policymakers, and economists couldn't help but acknowledge that it was true.

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