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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Geico STD story is the new McDonald's Hot Coffee story; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/hot…

#Pluralistic 1/ The Adam Ruins Everything title card for 'The Hot Coffee Cas
Next week (Jun 15/16) I'm speaking in #London at the CMAgovUK Data Technology and Analytics conference

eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-tec… 2/
The Geico STD story is the new McDonald's Hot Coffee story: The real story is binding arbitration.

3/ Image: Adam Ruins Everything/College Humor (modified) https
Hey look at this

* Wil Wheaton's Acting Ensign Pride Pin shopstands.com/products/wil-w…

* Is "acceptably non-dystopian" self-sovereign identity even possible? blog.mollywhite.net/is-acceptably-…

* Download/print/cut/assemble seaside architecture blog.presentandcorrect.com/shipwright (h/t @jstruan) 4/
#20yrsago SEED school to be neutered by administrator memex.craphound.com/2002/06/12/see…

#15yrsago The origins of the copyright wars web.archive.org/web/2007061513…

#15yrsago WIPO is still going ahead with anti-podcast treaty web.archive.org/web/2007061516… 5/
#15yrsago New low in patent stupidity: searching for a used car with a clean title web.archive.org/web/2007061502…

#15yrsago EFF privacy attorney (@KevinBankston) is a magnet for privacy invading street-searches web.archive.org/web/2014041319…

#15yrsago Snitchtown forbes.com/2007/06/11/urb… 6/
#15yrsago @AmendLocke’s “Execution Channel” — chilling blogothriller memex.craphound.com/2007/06/11/ken…

#10yrsago Students assigned to cheat on exam use doctored Little Brother cover and many other clever methods rumint.org/gregconti/publ… 7/
#10yrsago On receiving an honorary doctorate in computer science from the @OpenUniversity memex.craphound.com/2012/06/11/on-…

#10yrsago G4S: the scandal-embroiled “private security” behemoth that will provide 10,000 “security contractors” to London 2012 independent.co.uk/voices/comment… 8/
#10yrsago @FTC sets sights on scammy “crammers” who bill your phone a fortune for services you don’t need, want, or use arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago The internet is changing civil wars, and will change them further washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-ca… 9/
#10yrsago Spanish activists raise money to sue bank boss at center of financial crisis web.archive.org/web/2012060603…

#5yrsago A comic that profiles @klg19, Columbia University’s first-ever comics curator spinweaveandcut.com/greene-anthrop… 10/
#5yrsago Thai police arrest three Chinese nationals in raid on social media “like”-farm web.archive.org/web/2017061800…

#5yrsago English isn’t uniquely expressive or fluid, but it is uniquely, dysfunctionally weird aeon.co/essays/why-is-… 11/
#5yrsago Arduino’s “arm’s-length” foundation is being run by CEO who lied about his degrees from MIT and NYU makezine.com/2017/06/09/fre…

#5yrsago The Tories’ failed £1.2m social smear ads reveal callouses on our attention’s tender spots memex.craphound.com/2017/06/11/the… 12/
#1yrago The ACCESS Act: The most significant interop legislation in US history pluralistic.net/2021/06/12/acc…

#1yrago Privacy Without Monopoly, EU edition: The GDPR forbids competition in human rights abuses pluralistic.net/2021/06/11/tec… 13/
Yesterday's threads: Monopolists want to create human inkjet printers; and more!

14/ Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wi
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… 15/
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… 16/
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/ 17/
Upcoming appearances:

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

* A New @HOPEconf (NYC), Jul 24
hope.net 18/
Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event…

* Privacy is the New Celebrity
buzzsprout.com/1806101/106430… 19/
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/
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/2022/06/12/hot… 21/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com. 22/
My latest @Medium column is "Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism"

doctorow.medium.com/regulatory-cap… 23/
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 24/
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… 25/
Today's top sources: @BoingBoing (boingboing.net). 26/

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Terminal-stage capitalism owes its long senescence to its defensive mechanisms, and it's only by defeating these that we can put it out of its misery. "The Shield of Boringness" is one of the necrocapitalist's most effective defenses, so it behooves us to attack it head-on.

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The Shield of Boringness is Dana Claire's extremely useful term for anything so dull that you simply can't hold any conception of it in your mind for any length of time.

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Broadly speaking, the role of an establishment economist is to come up with new ways of saying, "actually, your boss is right."

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*Corporate Bullshit: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America* is @NickHanauer, @joanwalsh and @donaldrcohen12's 2023 book on the history of corporate apologetics; it's great:



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Last weekend, I was at @Defcon 32, where I had the privilege of giving a talk: "Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification."

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This was a followup to last year's talk, "An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification," a talk that kicked off a lot of international interest in my analysis of platform decay ("enshittification"):



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How is this possible? Enshittification:



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