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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
@doctorow
Oct 26, 2022 • 26 tweets • 24 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Uline's billions fund voter suppression; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/26/box…

#Pluralistic 1/ A paper shredder that is sh...
Tonight (Oct 26), I'm hosting an online launch for XYChelsea's new book, "Readme.txt: A Memoir" via @Bookshop_Org:

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Uline's billions fund voter suppression: The Uihlein family used to fund the John Birch Society, today it's the Big Lie.

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#20yrsago @hilaryr debates file-sharing at Oxford web.archive.org/web/2002120806…

#15yrsago LOLCat programming language: LOLCode blog.notdot.net/2007/6/LOLCode…

#15yrsago US terrorist watchlist “galloping toward the million mark” usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/20… 4/ Image
#10yrsago @StephenAtHome to Trump: I’ll pay $1M to your favorite charity if you let me put my balls in your mouth web.archive.org/web/2012102713… 5/ Image
#10yrsago Aviation vulnerability: Scan boarding passes to discover if you’re in for deep screening; print new barcodes if you don’t like what you find puckinflight.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/sec…

#10yrsago Copyright versus human rights techdirt.com/2012/10/26/no-… 6/ Image
#5yrsago A new, virulent ransomware epidemic is fuelled by yet another leaked NSA cyberweapon arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago A socialist candidate for Minneapolis city council has broken all fundraising records through individual $25 donations theintercept.com/2017/10/26/min… 7/ Image
#5yrsago Six months before the breach, a researcher warned Equifax that all its data was unprotected vice.com/en/article/ne3…

#5yrsago A common satellite comms package for ships and oil rigs has a backdoor that won’t be patched bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/… 8/ Image
#5yrsago 200 Trump inauguration protesters face 70 years in prison each over 6 broken windows theintercept.com/2017/10/25/tru…

#5yrsago Trump Cabinet Secretary’s hometown, 2-person company wins $300m power-rebuilding contract in Puerto Rico washingtonpost.com/national/small… 9/ Image
#5yrsago Epson uses dubious patent claims to nuke ink sellers’ listings from eBay eff.org/deeplinks/2017…

#5yrsago Those “heroic rogue GOP senators” just helped Trump shield Equifax and Wells Fargo from lawsuits theintercept.com/2017/10/24/aft… 10/ Image
#5yrsago Simple steps your small organization can take to defend itself against cyberattacks cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/howt…

#5yrsago Kaspersky’s explanation for possessing secret NSA cyberweapons is a doozy theintercept.com/2017/10/25/nsa… 11/ Image
#5yrsago San Francisco may finally get decent internet access, thanks to municipal fiber wired.com/story/san-fran…

#5yrsago Why electrical engineers should support the right to repair spectrum.ieee.org/why-we-must-fi… 12/ Image
#5yrsago How the Chicago School’s extremist ideology destroyed the American economy with unchecked monopolies web.archive.org/web/2017102413… 13/ Image
#1yrago The Dems' most secret Congressional committee: The Steering and Policy Committee runs the show and we're not even allowed to know who's on it pluralistic.net/2021/10/25/peo… 14/ Image
#1yrago Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt: Or, why countries are spending more on "border security" than the climate emergency pluralistic.net/2021/10/26/ine… 15/ Image
Monday's threads: An hour of interwar Halloween music; 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… 17/
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… 18/
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:

* Launch for xychelsea's "Readme.txt: A Memoir" (@Bookshop_Org), 10/26:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/wedf-2022

* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), 11/10
lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepo… 20/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
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Recent appearances:

* Why Patients Should Hack Med Tech (@defcon 30)


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

* Sex and Politics with @fakedansavage (use code "Doctorow" for a free month):
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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
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 "How to Fix Cars By Breaking 'Felony Contempt of Business Model'"

doctorow.medium.com/how-to-fix-car… 24/
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 25/
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… 26/

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Nov 20
Well, this fucking *sucks*. A federal judge has decided that Meta is not a monopolist, and that its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp were not an illegal bid to secure and maintain a monopoly:



1/ gizmodo.com/meta-learns-th…The classic Puck Magazine editorial cartoon entitled 'The King of All Commodities,' depicting John D Rockefeller as a man with grotesquely tiny body and a gigantic head, wearing a crown emblazoned with the names of the industrial concerns he owned. Rockefeller's head has been replaced with that of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The names of the industrial concerns have been replaced with the wordmarks for Scale AI, Instagram, Oculus and Whatsapp. The dollar-sign at the crown's pinnacle has been replaced with the Facebook 'f' logo. The chain around Rockefeller's neck sports the charm th...
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This is particularly galling because Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly, explicitly declared that these mergers were undertaken *to reduce competition*, which is the only circumstance in which pro-monopoly economists and lawyers say that mergers should be blocked.

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Nov 18
Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called *Who Censored Roger Rabbit?* which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*

1/ The final scene of Disneyland's 'Roger Rabbit's Toontown Spin,' in which Roger Rabbit is deploying a pair of portable holes; the holes have been replaced with copyright symbols, which are partially cropped. Image: Ken Lund (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/16775732643/ CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
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But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length sequels.

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Nov 8
A blockbuster Reuters report by Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked internal documents that reveal that: 10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because...

1/ A tuxedoed figure dramatically shoveing greenish pigs into a tube, from whose other end vomits forth a torrent of packaged goods. He has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' avatar. He stands upon an endless field of gold coins. The background is the intaglioed upper face of the engraving of Benjamin Franklin on a US$100 bill, roughed up to a dark and sinister hue.
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...The fines for facilitating this life-destroying fraud are far less than the expected revenue from helping to destroy its users' lives:



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Nov 7
While I formulated the idea of enshittification to refer to digital platforms and their specific technical characteristics, economics and history, I am very excited to see other theorists extend the idea of enshittification beyond tech and into wider policy realms.

1/ A Gilded Age editorial cartoon depicting a muscular worker and a corpulent millionaire squaring off for a fight; the millionaire's head has been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of 'Enshittification,' its mouth covered in a grawlix-scrawled black bar.
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There's an easy, loose way to do this, which is using "enshittification" to refer to "things generally getting worse." To be clear, I am *fine* with this:



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Oct 29
Amazon made $35b profit last year. They're celebrating by firing 14k workers (a number they say will rise to 30k). It's the kind of thing Wall St loves. It comes after a string of pronouncements from Andy Jassy about how AI is going to let him fire *tons* of workers.

1/ A black and white image of an armed overseer supervising several chain-gang prisoners in stripes doing forced labor. The overseer's head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The prisoners' heads have been replaced with hackers' hoodies. 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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That's the AI story, after all. It's not about making workers more productive or creative.

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Oct 11
I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a climate activist. I used to be - I even used to ring strangers' doorbells on behalf of Greenpeace.

1/ A field of utility scale solar. Behind the mountains on the horizon line loom two logos: the original EFF 'clenched fist and lightning bolt' logo and the first Earth Day logo. They are reflected in the solar panels. Behind them roils hellish red-shot smoke.
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But a quarter of a century ago, I fell in with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and became a lifelong digital rights activist, and switched to cheering on environmental activists from the sidelines of their fight:



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