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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Democrats' self-immolating fetish for means-testing; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/05/03/uto…

#Pluralistic 1/ A portly business-man in a ...
This weekend (May 6-8), I'm Guest of Honor at the @DemiConDM 33 science fiction convention in #DesMoines:

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The Democrats' self-immolating fetish for means-testing: How to lose an election...and a nation.

3/ Image: https://commons.wiki...
Hey look at this

* Reminder: safe and effective medication for having an abortion is available via the mail. "Even in states with the strictest abortion laws, pregnant people have a safe, inexpensive option to terminate their pregnancies." 4/ Image
theatlantic.com/politics/archi… (h/t @kottke) 5/
#20yrsago Court Orders ReplayTV to Spy on Customers for Movie Studios web.archive.org/web/2002060115…

#15yrsago New #AACS crack “can’t be revoked” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/0…

#15yrsago Students petition USC film-school for the right to use @creativecommons web.archive.org/web/2007070615… 6/ Image
#15yrsago AACS vows to fight people who publish the key news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog…

#15yrsago @EdFelten explains the AACS revolt freedom-to-tinker.com/2007/05/03/why…

#15yrsago Canada’s copyright czar lied about money from entertainment execs web.archive.org/web/2007050710… 7/ Image
#15yrsago Congresscritters take money from RIAA/MPAA, then threaten universities on their behalf web.archive.org/web/2007050503…

#15yrsago Obama wants @creativecommons licensed Presidential debates web.archive.org/web/2007050322… 8/ Image
#10yrsago Lehman Bros document trove online: childish hubris, laughable idiocy from today’s Senior Policy Advisor at US Treasury ritholtz.com/2012/04/the-le…

#10yrsago When copyright term-extension meets infinite life-extension sfsite.com/fsf/2012/pdf12… 9/ Image
#5yrsago @GreatDismal rewrote the sequel to The Peripheral after the 2016 election theverge.com/2017/5/3/15530…

#5yrsago The @CANADALAND Guide to Canada (Published in America) memex.craphound.com/2017/05/03/the… 10/ Image
#5yrsago Automatically generate datasets that teach people how (not) to create statistical mirages autodesk.com/research/publi…

#5yrsago Coal execs’ pay rises and rises, while miners’ wages stagnate nytimes.com/2017/05/02/cli… 11/ Image
#1yrago Dishwashers have become Iphones: Meet the Bob Cassette Rewinder pluralistic.net/2021/05/03/cas… 12/ Image
Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs"; 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… 14/
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… 15/ 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."

craphound.com/shop/ 16/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

* @DemiConDM 33 (Des Moines), May 6-8
demicon.org/33/programming…

* Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech (@imaginationASU), May 12
asu.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 17/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

* @openjsf Keynote (Austin), Jun 8
events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-world/p…

* @CMAgovUK Data Technology/Analytics (London), Jun 15-16
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-tec…

* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 22-24
hope.net 18/ Image
Recent appearances:

* A Little Patience and a Lot of Tape (@TWiT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…

* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (@forlifeitself podcast)


* Launch for @Egangoonsquad's "Candy House" (@VPL)
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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… 20/ 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/2022/05/03/uto… 21/
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 "End-To-End Encryption is Too Important to Be Proprietary"

doctorow.medium.com/end-to-end-enc… 22/
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 23/
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… 24/
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Feb 5
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Inside: MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing; and more!

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1/ pluralistic.net/2025/02/04/pow…A vintage ad for Amway Nutrilite supplements; the illustration in the center of the ad has been replaced with a WPA mural depicting trade unionists rising up against capitalism.
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MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing: In the mirror world, community organizers are community predators.



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Jan 27
If Elon Musk wants to cut $2t from the US federal budget, there's a pretty straightforward way to get there - just eliminate all the beltway bandits who overcharge Uncle Sucker for everything from pharma to roads to (of course) rockets, and make the rich pay their taxes.

1/ A highwayman in a tailcoat and top-hat with Elon Musk's laughing face points a pair of oversized revolvers at a bent-double Uncle Sam, his face a bitter mask; Sam is being crushed under a small mountain of variegated fardels, e.g., large sacks, barrels, and railroad rails. In the background is a halftoned image of a Falcon Heavy rocket plummeting out of the sky, chased by a plume of flame. Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/52005460639/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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There *is* a ton of federal bloat, but it's not coming from useless programs or overpaid federal employees.

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Jan 25
The core regulatory proposition of the tech industry is "it's not a crime if we do it with an app." It's not an unlicensed taxi if we do it with an app. It's not an illegal hotel room if we do it with an app.

1/ Two caricatures of top-hatted millionaires whose bodies are bulging money-sacks. Their heads have been replaced with potatoes. The potatoes' eyes have been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' They stand in a potato field filled with stoop laborers. The sky is a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. 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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It's not an unregistered security if we do it with an app. It's not wage theft if we do it with an app.

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Jan 24
"Boss politics" are a feature of corrupt societies. When a society is dominated by self-dealing, corrupt institutions, strongman leaders can seize control by appealing to the public's fury and desperation.

1/ An altered version of a Gilded Age editorial cartoon titled 'Who controls the Senate?' which depicts the Senate as populated by tiny, ineffectual politicians ringed by massive, bloated, brooding monopolists. A door labeled 'people's entrance.' is firmly locked. A sign reads, 'This is a senate of the monopolists, by the monopolists and for the monopolists.' The image has been altered: an editorial cartoon of Boss Tweed, portrayed as a portly man in a business suit with a money-bag for a head, stands in the foreground. He is wearing a MAGA hat. On his shoulder perches a tiny, 'big stick' swin...
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Then, the boss can selectively punish corrupt entities that oppose him, and since *everyone* is corrupt, these will be valid prosecutions.

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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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