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Oct 11 25 tweets 23 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning; Shelter in place; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/11/ren…

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I'm coming to #Miami!

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

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

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Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning: IMPNet will give your model hallucination and you can't stop it.

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Shelter in place: Prison for homelessness and lock-ins for home owners.

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Hey look at this

* I've worked on a number of high-profile failures

* The X of Generation X culture.ghost.io/the-x-of-gen-x/ (h/t @philgyford)

* Can data portability happen on video-sharing platforms? brookings.edu/blog/techtank/… 5/ Image
#20yrsago Camping out for Eldred onlisareinsradar.com/archives/00059…

#10yrsago Cheating F1 team wins the right to deduct its fines from its taxes terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/201… 6/ Image
#10yrsago Australian Attorney General says that public scrutiny of spying bill would not be in the public interest delimiter.com.au/2012/10/10/gov…

#10yrsago Anti-choice Tea Party Congressman pressured pregnant mistress to get an abortion dailykos.com/stories/2012/1… 7/ Image
#10yrsago Pratchett’s Dodger: Dickens by way of Discworld memex.craphound.com/2012/10/11/pra…

#5yrsago Court tells Trump that he can’t demand details and data on everyone who talked about protesting his inauguration arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 8/ Image
#5yrsago The “mom and pop” business owner who loves Trump’s tax plan is a lobbyist for Oracle who will save billions theintercept.com/2017/10/11/tax…

#5yrsago Equifax: we doxed 400k Britons, erm, make that 700k, erm, we mean 15.2 million bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/… 9/ Image
#5yrsago Volk: a sinister, Lovecraftian tale of eugenics, Naziism, and “radiant abomination” memex.craphound.com/2017/10/11/vol… 10/ Image
Yesterday's threads: Antitrust is - and always has been - about fairness; 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:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 12/
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… 13/
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:

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

* Reboot Conference, @JoinLincoln (Miami), 10/13
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures – @copyrightcentre (Glasgow), Oct 17
create.ac.uk/copyright-evid…

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
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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
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

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

* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)


* Canadians Connected 2022 with @ambermac:


* Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon (@trashfuturepod)
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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… 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/2022/10/11/ren… 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.

My latest Medium column is "Bankruptcy protects fake people, brutalizes real ones"

doctorow.medium.com/bankruptcy-pro… 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!

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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… 24/
Today's top sources: @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com), /r/LateStageCapitalism (reddit.com/r/LateStageCap…), Bruce Schneier (schneier.com/blog/). 25/ Image

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/13/sic…

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I'm in #Miami!

Catch me today (Oct 13) at @JoinLincoln's Reboot Conference:

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