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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Facebook's genocide filters are really, really bad and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/23/fal…

#Pluralistic 1/ Image:  Anthony Quintano (modified) https://commons.wikimedi
I'm going to be mostly offline until Saturday - I likely won't get a new edition out before then. 2/
Facebook's genocide filters are really, really bad: An AI that can't recognize its own training data is a very, very bad AI.

3/ Image:  Anthony Quintano (modified) https://commons.wikimedi
#15yrsago Fair use 1: James Joyce’s grandson 0 cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2007/03/i…

#10yrsago Bruce Schneier and former TSA boss Kip Hawley debate air security on The Economist web.archive.org/web/2012032105… 4/
#5yrsago Libretaxi: a free, open, cash-only alternative to Uber, for the rest of the world shareable.net/qa-libretaxis-…

#5yrsago Internal Islamophobia and racism are costing the FBI its vital, tiny cohort of Muslim and Arab agents theguardian.com/us-news/2017/m… 5/
#1yrago Tories pass Grenfell costs onto tenants pluralistic.net/2021/03/23/par… 6/
Yesterday's threads: Ban surveillance advertising; and more!

7/ Image:  EFF https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/mobile-
Hey look at this

* March Madness but for misunderstood legal concepts techdirt.com/2022/03/21/ann… (h/t @Beschizza)

* Uncanny Robot: Absurd AI-generated stories read by humans uncannyrobotpodcast.com (h/t @MusubiRocks) 8/
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… 9/
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… 10/
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/ 11/
Upcoming appearances:

* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (Charles River Associates/Brussels), Mar 31
cra-brusselsconference.com

* Seize the Means of Computation, Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com/talks/keynote/ 12/
Recent appearances:

* @thebtcpodcast:
thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-po…

* Dangerous Visions: False Dawns and Wandergrounds - Dystopia, Then and Now


* Safety Orange (@TWIT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee… 13/
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… 14/
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/2022/03/23/fal… 15/
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: "@marc_laidlaw's 'Underneath the Oversea'"

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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… 18/
Today's top sources: Cooper Quinton. 19/

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Inside: Ban surveillance advertising; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/22/myo…

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