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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: "Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sen…

#Pluralistic 1/
I'm coming to #Miami!

Tues (Oct 12): event for "Chokepoint Capitalism" @BooksandBooks (@rgibli's and my new book about creative labor markets and monopoly power)

booksandbooks.com/event/in-perso…

Weds (Oct 13): @JoinLincoln's Reboot Conference:

eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-… 2/
"Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts): Northeastern grad student vs surveillance-driven austerity.

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Hey look at this

* Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins (h/t @Metafilter)

* The Onion's first Supreme Court amicus brief supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2…

* Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew perform Remain in Light (h/t Xtrasilky) 4/
#20yrsago @neilhimself kicks McFarlane’s ass in court icv2.com/articles/comic…

#20yrsago Homeless Guy blog web.archive.org/web/2002092315…

#20yrsago 9/11, war in Iraq threaten Disney parks latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

#20yrsago 1Mb/s through mud web.archive.org/web/2002120511… 5/
#20yrsago @StevenLevy’s wireless neighbors newsweek.com/i-was-wi-fi-fr…

#15yrsago Modern phrenologists “predict” terrorism with biometrics sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/…

#15yrsago Great firewall of China blocks RSS arstechnica.com/uncategorized/… 6/
#15yrsago @cmdrtaco on 10 years of Slashdot web.archive.org/web/2007101011…

#15yrsago HMG orders Heathrow to fix its security queues theguardian.com/business/2007/…

#15yrsago Canadian mint: We own the words “one cent” and Toronto can’t use them tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/1… 7/
#15yrsago Revolution in Jesusland: building bridges between progressives and born-agains web.archive.org/web/2007101102…

#15yrsago Unlocking an iPhone is legal slate.com/technology/200… 8/
#10yrsago 68,000 Texans no longer have to prove they’re not dead in order to vote loweringthebar.net/2012/10/texas-…

#10yrsago Maine GOP attack-flier condemns Democratic candidate for playing an orc rogue in online game arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 9/
#10yrsago UN’s copyright agency won’t let the Pirate Party in web.archive.org/web/2012100704… (ha ha only serious)ppi-blocked-from-becoming-observer-members-of-wipo/

#10yrsago Sailor Twain: don’t fall in love with the mermaid of the Hudson valley memex.craphound.com/2012/10/04/sai… 10/
#10yrsago Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium: @JonStewart and @BillOReilly’s debate kicked ass theguardian.com/world/2012/oct…

#10yrsago Supreme Court case will decide whether you own your stuff marketwatch.com/story/your-rig… 11/
#5yrsago After massive breach Equifax gets $7.25m no-bid IRS contract to “prevent fraud” consumerist.com/2017/10/04/irs…

#5yrsago Analysis of 22 million FCC comments show that humans love Net Neutrality and bots really, really hate it gravwell.io/blog/discoveri… 12/
#5yrsago Average Fortune 500 CEO gets a pension of $253,088 every month until they die latimes.com/business/lazar…

#5yrsago Disgraced Equifax CEO blames 145.5 million-record breach on a single forgetful flunky engadget.com/2017-10-03-for… 13/
#5yrsago Hackers hack hackers to steal their hacking tools and deflect blame theintercept.com/2017/10/04/mas…

#5yrsago “Court guardians” kidnap old people, sell all their stuff, doom victims to pharmaceutical oblivion in institutions newyorker.com/magazine/2017/… 14/
#5yrsago Theresa May coughs through a catastrophic party conference speech plagued by pranks and a crumbling set cnn.com/2017/10/04/eur…

#5yrsago Lifelong Kindergarten: how to learn like a kid, by the co-creator of Scratch memex.craphound.com/2017/10/04/lif… 15/
#5yrsago @Slashdot is 20 meta.slashdot.org/story/17/10/03…

#5yrsago Canary claws back cloud features from its IoT camera, starts charging $10/month theverge.com/circuitbreaker… 16/
#5yrsago Prisoners sent to Christian “rehab” diversion programs find themselves in forced-labor camps revealnews.org/article/they-t…

#5yrsago Seattle’s Nazi tech-bros’ plan: infiltrate tech industry, hire white supremacists thestranger.com/news/2017/10/0… 17/
#5yrsago Equifax will make hundreds of millions in extra profits from its apocalyptic breach (forever) fortune.com/2017/10/04/equ…

#5yrsago Georgia Sheriff and deputies indicted for repeatedly touching the junk of 900 students at local high-school techdirt.com/2017/10/06/she… 18/
#5yrsago JP Morgan-Chase paid its billions in fines for mortgage fraud by committing billions in mortgage fraud web.archive.org/web/2017100513… 19/
#5yrsago Corporations form coalition to ask a court to ban coalitions (of people the corporations have screwed over) theintercept.com/2017/10/06/con…

#1yrago We paid to develop Merck's covid pill: And now they're charging us a 4,000% markup on it pluralistic.net/2021/10/06/mer… 20/
#1yrago Dave Eggers' "The Every": A tragicomic look at Big Tech, following from "The Circle" pluralistic.net/2021/10/05/mas…

#1yrago USPS pilots postal banking pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avo…

#1yrago The Pandora Papers pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avo… 21/
#1yrago Savage Love A-Z: A bestiary of good sex pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avo…

#1yrago Scottish Limited Partnerships are still laundering criminal millions: Offshore is actually onshore pluralistic.net/2021/10/07/mar… 22/
#1yrago "Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains: Universities are auto-billing students for high-priced, self-destructing textbooks they can't loan or sell pluralistic.net/2021/10/07/mar… 23/
#1yrago DoS a federal agency, then charge for access: Enq carries on a tradition of genuinely terrible startup ideas pluralistic.net/2021/10/07/mar… 24/
Monday's threads: An antitrust murder whodunnit; and more!

25/
My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 26/
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:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 27/
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."

craphound.com/shop/ 28/
Upcoming appearances:

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

* Reboot Conference, @JoinLincoln (Miami), 10/13
eventbrite.com/e/reboot-2022-…

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
libraryjournal.com/event/library-… 29/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), Oct 23
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctoro…

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @Rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
writersfestival.org/events/fall-20… 30/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/registration

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/s… 31/
Recent appearances:

* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)


* Canadians Connected 2022 with @AmberMac:


* Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon (@trashfuturepod)
trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/amazon-billi… 32/
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… 33/
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/2022/10/07/sen… 34/
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.

My latest @Medium column is "The True Genius of Tech Leaders"

doctorow.medium.com/the-true-geniu… 35/
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 36/
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… 37/
Today's top sources: Max von Hippel (@maxvonhippel). 38/

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It's hard to talk about the Epstein class without thinking about "The Economy" (in the sense of a mystical, free-floating entity whose health or sickness determines the outcomes for all of us, whom we must make sacrifices to if we are to prosper).

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The best summary of Trump's trade "philosophy" comes from Trashfuture's November Kelly, who said that Trump is flipping over the table in a poker game that's rigged in his favor because he resents having to pretend to play the game at all.

1/ A detail from a US $100 bill. The bill has been tinted orange. Ben Franklin's face has been replaced with an indistinct blur surmounted by Trump's hair. The lettering in the scrollwork beneath the portrait reads 'TRUMP.' The '100's have been turned into '000's. The writing 'ONE HUNDRED' now reads 'NONE HUNDRED.' The series issue has been changed to '47.' The Secretary of the Treasury's signature has been replaced with Trump's.
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1/ A green Irish pillarbox, standing before a verdant, rolling Irish countryside. The pillarbox is emblazoned with the poop emoji from the cover of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a grawlix-scrawled black bar over its mouth. Image: Stuart Caie (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Double_aperture_Irish_pillar_box_in_Dublin_2008.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en -- Sourabh.biswas003 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PXL_20231216_105219694-Ballygalley_Larne_UK-_Irish_Countryside-Northern_Ireland_06.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 ht...
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1/ A shredder, shredding a giant US$100 bill. Benjamin Franklin's head has been replaced with a cliched 'hacker in a hoodie' illustration. The machine's faceplate bears the Claude Code wordmark. The background is the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' 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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Code is a liability. Code's *capabilities* are assets.

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We are about to get a "post-American internet," because we are entering a post-American *era* and a post-American *world*. Some of that is Trump's doing, and some of that is down to his predecessors.

1/ Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.
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1/ A modified FBI badge. It now reads 'Federal Wallet Investigators.' It is made out to 'Timothy J Shotspotter.' It is held in the three-fingered, gloved grip of a cartoon character. Around its edges, we see a cartoon room from a public domain Betty Boop cartoon.
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