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Feb 16 • 19 tweets • 15 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The extremely shady "educational integrity" industry; Oh great, there's DRM in printer PAPER now; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/02/16/una…

#Pluralistic 1/ Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wik
This coming weekend (Feb 18-20) I'm a (virtual) guest at the @boskonenews sf convention. I'm doing several panels and my first-ever reading from *Red Team Blues,* my forthcoming novel from @TorBooks.

schedule.boskone.org/people/29740 2/
The extremely shady "educational integrity" industry: From Proctorio to Honorlock.

3/ Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wik
Oh great, there's DRM in printer PAPER now: Dymo was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

4/ Image: Hugh D'Andrade/EFF https://www.eff.org/about/staff/hu
#15yrsago Macrovision sends pretty lies to Steve Jobs web.archive.org/web/2007021808…

#10yrsago Meet the western technology companies who sell network snooping technology to torturing dictators eff.org/deeplinks/2012… 5/
#5yrsago More anti-money laundering measures hit China as top three Bitcoin exchanges freeze withdrawals bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/chi…

#1yrago Ring helped LAPD spy on BLM protests pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/rin…

#1yrago Uber loses (another) $6.8b pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/rin… 6/
Yesterday's threads: McKinsey For Kids (no, really); Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags; and more!

7/ Image: McKinsey for Kids https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-i
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/
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/ 10/
Upcoming appearances:

* @boskonenews 59 (Feb 18-20)
schedule.boskone.org/people/29740

* 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 11/
Recent appearances:

* Bringing Back Luddites (@OhNoPodcast)
ohnopodcast.com/investigations…

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

* Moral Panic (@Drug_Science Podcast)
drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-mor… 12/
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… 13/
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/2022/02/16/una… 14/
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. 15/
My latest @Medium column is: "An Open Letter to Pixsy CEO Kain Jones, Who Keeps Sending Me Legal Threats"

doctorow.medium.com/an-open-letter… 16/
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!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 17/
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… 18/
Today's top sources: @Slashdot (slashdot.org). 19/

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The printer industry has always surfed the leading edge of dystopian business practices, pioneering the most disgusting, deceptive tactics for ripping off customers by locking them into buying half-full ink cartridges at $12,000/gallon. 1/ A desktop label printer whose front-buttons and output slot
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