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

Inside: How Palantir will steal the NHS; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/01/the…

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Next Monday (Oct 3) at 9hPT, I'm on a panel ("Regulatory Requirements and Necessary Standards") for #OnlinePublicSphere2022:

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How Palantir will steal the NHS: Stealth privatisation was always the endgame for public-private-partnerships.

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* ‘We can continue Pratchett’s efforts’: the gamers keeping Discworld alive theguardian.com/games/2022/sep… (h/t Waxy) 4/ Image
#20yrsago Danger Hiptop reviewed sfgate.com/business/artic…

#20yrsago Distributed.net cracks the RC5-64 cipher web.archive.org/web/2003071000…

#20yrsago @kevinmitnick’s laptop, signed by @stevewoz, on eBay forums.atariage.com/topic/14593-ow… 5/ Image
#20yrsago Record industry defends practices to Senate web.archive.org/web/2002101816…

#20yrsago @dangillmor responds to Jack Valenti web.archive.org/web/2002101222…

#20yrsago 2000+ year old Greek computer reinterpreted economist.com/science-and-te… 6/ Image
#15yrsago Keep Your Copyrights: helping creators beat abusive contracts web.law.columbia.edu/kernochan/keep…

#15yrsago Disney kills its spy-on-your-kids phones web.archive.org/web/2007101915…

#15yrsago Nokia taunts Apple lockware phone with posters for “open” N-series forums.macrumors.com/threads/timely… 7/ Image
#15yrsago Archibishop of Mozambique: condoms and HIV cocktails will give you AIDS news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/70…

#15yrsago @rudytheelder’s Postsingular: Wheenk! memex.craphound.com/2007/10/01/rud…

#15yrsago Things you shouldn’t do in science fiction/fantasy writing eeknight.livejournal.com/283350.html 8/ Image
#15yrsago Guerrilla librarians free the $86k Library of Congress copyright database web.archive.org/web/2007101100…

#15yrsago @ScottWesterfeld’s Extras – a superb volume in the Uglies series memex.craphound.com/2007/09/30/sco… 9/ Image
#10yrsago Quant: leaving finance made me happy, you should try it mathbabe.org/2012/09/30/tel…

#10yrsago How Frederik Pohl became a pulp literary agent, and saved himself 8¢ per story in postage web.archive.org/web/2012100501… 10/ Image
#10yrsago Replacement ear grown on an arm cbsnews.com/baltimore/news…

#5yrsago Troops fire rubber bullets to prevent Catalan independence vote, injure at least 465 theguardian.com/world/live/201… 11/ Image
#5yrsago Equifax blames hack on state actors, but breach followed spat with security contractor bloomberg.com/news/features/…

#5yrsago China’s massive property bubble creates mad scramble to take on decades of debt scmp.com/news/china/eco… 12/ Image
#5yrsago Republican Senator caught making up fake news about fake news doubles down web.archive.org/web/2017093021…

#5yrsago Hamilton: the My Little Pony edition 13/ Image
#5yrsago DRM could kill game emulators and erase the history of an artform techdirt.com/2017/09/29/how…

#1yrago Facebook thrives on criticism of "disinformation": They'd rather be evil than incompetent pluralistic.net/2021/09/30/don… 14/ Image
Thursday's threads: Porn on Tumblr is a complicated subject; and more!

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #OnlinePublicSphere2022, 10/3
globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/events/regulat…

* Chokepoint Capitalism event, @BooksandBooks (Miami), 10/12
booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso…

* Reboot Conference, @JoinLincoln (Miami), 10/13
eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-… 19/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
libraryjournal.com/event/library-…

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
writersfestival.org/events/fall-20…

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/registration 20/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:

* Triangulation: Chokepoint Capitalism
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* Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (@machinekillspod)
soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

* Billionaires As Policy Failure Factories (@CheeseMacro)
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Happy #SpookySeason! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by @mcrockefeller.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 23/ 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/2022/10/01/the… 24/
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. 25/
My latest @Medium column is "Oil is Bankrupt (If We Want It): Alberta’s Oil Companies Are the Walking Dead"

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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.

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Since Trump hijacked the Supreme Court, his backers have achieved many of their policy priorities: legalizing bribery, formalizing forced birth, and - with the *Loper Bright* case, neutering the expert agencies that regulate business:



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Nov 15
When the GOP trifecta assumes power in just a few months, they will pass laws, and those laws will be terrible, and they will cast long, long shadows.

1/ https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/14/radical-extremists/#sex-pest An e-waste dump. In the foreground are two waste-barrels. A limp Canadian flag emerges from the left barrel; the nude head and shoulders of a grinning Tony Clement emerge from the right barrel. Image: JeffJ (modified) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tony_Clement_-_2007-06-30_in_Kearney,_Ontario.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ -- Jorge Franganillo (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duga_radar_system-_wreckage_of_electronic_devices_(37885984654).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creat...
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Nov 4
Science fiction isn't collection of tropes, nor is it a literary style, nor is it a marketing category. It can *encompass* all of these, but what sf really is, is an *outlook*.

1/ The Harpercollins cover for Neal Stephenson's 'Polostan.'
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Nov 1
"Switching costs" are one of the great underappreciated evils in our world: the more it costs you to change from one product or service to another, the worse the vendor, provider, or service you're using today can treat you without risking your business.

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