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Oct 20, 2022 • 32 tweets • 33 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: It was all downhill after the Cuecat; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/20/ben…

#Pluralistic 1/ A Cuecat scanner with a bun...
Catch me today (10/20) online at @LibraryJournal's Day of Dialog:
libraryjournal.com/event/library-…

#Montreal! On 10/23 I'm at @ArgoBookshop, 10/23:
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctoro…

And #Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
writersfestival.org/events/fall-20… 2/
It was all downhill after the Cuecat: On the origins of "user manipulation and surveillance."

3/ Image: Jerry Whiting (modif...
Hey look at this

* Creepy Ant Face Close-Up Haunts Nikon Small World Photo Contest cnet.com/science/creepy…

* How Ticketmaster Destroyed Live Music

* Teddy Roosevelt's Application to the Explorers Club flickr.com/photos/jurvets… 4/ Image
#15yrsago @JesseBrown's radio show about gaming in China: propaganda, paranoia and gold-farming web.archive.org/web/2011092020…

#15yrsago Baseball players’ stats aren’t property espn.com/mlb/news/story… 5/ Image
#15yrsago @GreatDismal on futurism, terrorism and other isms thetyee.ca/Books/2007/10/…

#15yrsago The Counterfeiters: superb concentration camp movie about the prisoners’ dilemma memex.craphound.com/2007/10/20/the… 6/ Image
#15yrsago How the AP busted Comcast for blocking BitTorrent web.archive.org/web/2014042116…

#15yrsago Snitch-chips embedded in UK school’s uniforms archrights.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/chi…

#10yrsago Groucho meets Bradbury 7/ Image
#10yrsago Identity thief’s amazing disguise fails to fool bank, toddlers web.archive.org/web/2012102023…

#10yrsago Coming to America: Six copyright accusations, lose your Internet arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 8/ Image
#10yrsago Researcher claims feasibility of writing lethal wireless pacemaker viruses web.archive.org/web/2012101905…

#10yrsago Dutch government gives itself the right to break into your computer and destroy it bitsoffreedom.nl/2012/10/18/dut… 9/ Image
#10yrsago Why casual sexism in science matters web.archive.org/web/2012102102…

#10yrsago Corruption in Arizona National Guard, from “bum-hunts” to sexual harassment huffpost.com/entry/national… 10/ Image
#5yrsago NYPD has no backup for its seized property database, recording millions in annual seizures courthousenews.com/no-forfeiture-…

#5yrsago Leaked ICE forfeiture manual instructs agents to seize houses if they contain a phone implicated in crime theintercept.com/2017/10/13/ice… 11/ Image
#5yrsago Mobile ad technique allows stalkers to follow you around a city for less than $1000 adint.cs.washington.edu/ADINT.pdf

#5yrsago Troubles loom for patent trolls who rent sovereign immunity from Native American tribes arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 12/ Image
#5yrsago IRS to America: you were probably already doxed before the Equifaxpocalype, so don’t worry about it thehill.com/policy/cyberse… 13/ Image
#5yrsago Two of the Chicago airport cops who beat up Dr David Dao got fired for lying about it (but not for the beating) consumerist.com/2017/10/18/two…

#5yrsago The Tories replaced benefits with “universal credit” and left a town to starve theguardian.com/society/2017/o… 14/ Image
#5yrsago Viral Chinese mobile game requires players to “applaud” a speech by President Xi Jinping scmp.com/news/china/soc…

#5yrsago Quaker Apples & Cinnamon has “35% less sugar” because they’ve cut the portion size by 35%, while the price remains 100% reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuri… 15/ Image
#5yrsago Apple brought back Braun design, but Google is bringing back Olivetti medium.com/s/story/google…

#5yrsago Facebook’s security is like a “college campus,” but they face threats like a “defense contractor” zdnet.com/article/leaked… 16/ Image
#5yrsago @quinnnorton on sexual assault, community response, and restorative justice quinnnorton.medium.com/robert-scoble-…

#5yrsago Trump’s war on leakers has neutered the intelligence community’s whistleblower program, which diverts leakers foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/18/tur… 17/ Image
#5yrsago Detailed anatomy of Wisconsin’s election-rigging, racist voter suppression motherjones.com/politics/2017/…

#1yrago The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/viz… 18/ Image
#1yrago Copyleft lawsuit against Vizio will allow anyone to defend the commons pluralistic.net/2021/10/20/viz…

#1yrago The true, Terry Pratchett-esque origins of the trillion-dollar coin pluralistic.net/2021/10/19/moi… 19/ Image
Tuesday's threads: Being good at your job is praxis; and more!

20/ Image: Temple University L...
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… 21/
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… 22/
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/ 23/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

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

* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), 10/23
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctoro… 24/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Launch for xychelsea's "Readme.txt: A Memoir" (Bookshop.org), 10/26:
xychelsea.tv/#event-booksho… 25/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepo…

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-ev…

* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
news.sky.com/bigideaslive 26/ Image
Recent appearances:

* Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (@lithub)
lithub.com/cory-doctorow-…

* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use code "Doctorow" for a free month):
index.supportingcast.fm/subscription/t…

* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)
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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… 28/ 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/2022/10/20/ben… 29/
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 "Unspeakable: Big-Tech-as-cop vs. abolishing Big Tech"

doctorow.medium.com/unspeakable-8c… 30/
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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… 32/

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The American Dream, such as it is, used to be *two* dreams, one based on work and solidarity, the other on asset appreciation and disconnected individualism. We killed the first one.

1/ A rotting apartment living room; the Wall Street 'Charging Bull' statue is in one corner; from one of its horns dangles a sign reading 'FOR RENT WALL ST.' Through a crumbling doorway, we see an aristocrat laid out on a guillotine, about to be beheaded. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ Carlos Delgado (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_-_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg
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As the New Deal gave way to the post-war social safety net, Americans discovered two paths to social mobility: they could join a union, and they could buy a home. Joining a union meant that your wages would rise with productivity.

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Denise Prudhomme's bosses at Wells Fargo insisted that the in-person camaraderie of their offices warranted a mandatory return-to-office policy, but when she died at her desk in her Tempe, AZ office, no one noticed for four days.

1/ A medieval drawing of a horrible torture chamber in which men are being tormented by various diabolical machines. On the wall hangs a poster reading 'LATE AGAIN! Dependable workers are on the job.' Through the window peers an impatient man in a sixties vintage executive suit, clutching a sheaf of papers and scowling at his watch. Behind him is the nighttime Manhattan skyline.
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That was in August. Now, Wells Fargo United has published a statement on her death, one that vibrates with anger at the callously selective surveillance that Wells Fargo inflicts on its workforce:



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In Canto 20 of *Inferno*, Dante confronts a pit where the sinners have had their heads twisted around backwards; they trudge, naked and weeping, through puddles of cooling tears.

1/ Giovanni Stradano's 1587 illustration of Canto 20 of Dante's *Inferno*, depicting the fortunetellers in the 4th Bolgia (pit) their heads rotated 180' on their necks, forced ever to walk in circles, looking backwards.
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Virgil informs him that these are the fortunetellers, who tried to look forwards in life and now must look backwards forever.

In a completely unrelated subject, how about those election pollsters, huh?

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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.

1/ A Rube Goldberg machine for feeding a man soup. It has been placed against a background of scattered, assorted pills. In the foreground, along the bottom of the frame, are loosely stacked, bundled US one hundred dollar bills. Beside them stands a miniature caricature of a capitalist, holding a bulging, dollar-sign-emblazoned sack. Image: Flying Logos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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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."

1/ Two suited business-men sit knee-to-knee in a luxuriously paneled boardroom, smiling broadly at one another. They are tinted green and limned with green. Behind them stands a rank of child laborers in 19th century workwear, looking miserable. Behind the laborer, a sack of gold coins looms into the frame, spilling a cascade of gold coins. On the coffee table before the men is a tiny guillotine with a tiny aristocrat about to lose his head while two tiny Jacobins look on.
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In other words, the world we're living in is the best possible world, and the fact that you got contact burns from collapsing on the scorching sidewalk outside of the grocery store where you couldn't afford your weekly shopping is unfortunate, but unavoidable.

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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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I found out about this book last fall when @ddayen reviewed it for the @TheProspect; Dayen did a great job of breaking down its thesis, and I picked it up for my newsletter.

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