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Oct 21, 2022 • 20 tweets • 18 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/21/let…

#Pluralistic 1/ An old fashioned hand-crank...
#Montreal! I'm at @ArgoBookshop this Sunday (10/23):
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And #Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion: Model spinning maintains accuracy metrics, but changes the point of view.

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Hey look at this

* Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker theverge.com/23409716/signa… (h/t @nelson) 4/ Image
#15yrsago Italy proposes a Ministry of Blogging with mandatory blog-licensing web.archive.org/web/2007102102…

#15yrsago German music publisher claims that nothing is public domain until its copyright runs out in every country web.archive.org/web/2007102211… 5/ Image
#10yrsago Pirate Cinema presentation at Brooklyn’s WORD

#5yrsago Kids’ smart watches are a security/privacy dumpster-fire fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/upl…

#1yrago Imperfections in your Bluetooth beacons allow for unstoppable tracking pluralistic.net/2021/10/21/sid… 6/ Image
Yesterday's threads: It was all downhill after the Cuecat; and more!

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

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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:

* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), 10/23
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* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Launch for xychelsea's "Readme.txt: A Memoir" (Bookshop.org), 10/26:
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* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
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* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
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Recent appearances:

* Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan (@lithub)
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* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use code "Doctorow" for a free month):
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* 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.

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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/2022/10/21/let… 16/
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"

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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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Today's top sources: @schneierblog (schneier.com/blog/). 20/

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Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people.

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Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

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