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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Nov 22, 2022 • 33 tweets • 26 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/11/22/fre…

#Pluralistic 1/ An H&R Block storefront; the 'o' in Block has been replaced
Today (11/22), I'm hosting a @CalBookClub event with Kim Stanley Robinson where we'll be discussing his 1998 novel "The Gold Coast":

altaonline.com/california-boo… 2/
My publisher @TorBooks and @Goodreads are drawing for a giveaway of advance copies of my next novel, "Red Team Blues," a Silicon Valley forensic accounting thriller about a cryptocurrency heist - If you're in the US or Canada, enter here to win a copy:

goodreads.com/giveaway/show/… 3/
Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook: And they didn't even know they were doing it.

4/ Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wik
Hey look at this

* Greg Bear (1951-2022) file770.com/greg-bear-1951…

* Global Voices seeks an editor to lead our Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa coverage globalvoices.org/2022/11/21/glo…

* Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tum… (h/t Slashdot) 5/
#20yrsago Dumbass plan to redesign internet shored up by crooked, lying consultants nytimes.com/2002/11/22/wor…

#10yrsago Texas student suspended for refusing RFID tracker wired.com/2012/11/studen… 6/
#10yrsago Finnish police confiscate 9-y-o’s laptop after she downloads a song from the Pirate Bay dublimat.blogspot.com/2012/11/9-year…

#10yrsago Hacker steals entire nation’s identity loweringthebar.net/2012/11/if-you… 7/
#10yrsago Fact-checking US patent-boss’s defense of his job arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Counterfeiters counterfeit anti-counterfeiting notice memex.craphound.com/2012/11/22/cou… 8/
#10yrsago Spacehawk: the complete collection of Basil Wolverton’s space crusader memex.craphound.com/2012/11/22/spa…

#5yrsago Connected sex-toy allows for code-injection attacks on a robot you wrap around your genitals 9/
#5yrsago Why we should cheer the DoJ’s lawsuit to block the AT&T/Time-Warner merger wired.com/story/why-the-… 10/
#5yrsago For more than half a century, the sugar industry has used Big Tobacco tactics to suppress sugar/cancer link and to confuse the science journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… 11/
#5yrsago Cops chase innocent shoplifting suspect into stranger’s house, then storm it with 50-person SWAT team and blow up every room except one thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/fift… 12/
#5yrsago Trump’s top economic advisor couldn’t bear to listen to the president bloviate so he pretended he had a bad connection and hung up cnn.com/videos/politic… 13/
#5yrsago Trump found someone even worse than Tom Price to regulate Health and Human Services: an insulin profiteer medium.com/@caitlynmcclur… 14/
#5yrsago “Less lethal” is a deceptive term to describe the weapons that routinely kill and maim peaceful protesters opendemocracy.net/en/homer-vente… 15/
#5yrsago States suspend your driver’s license over inability to pay court fines, costing you your job and any ability to repay vice.com/en/article/59y… 16/
#5yrsago Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why rich people don’t need to be screened memex.craphound.com/2017/11/22/beh… 17/
#5yrsago Uber admits it breached 57,000,000 accounts, then bribed the hackers to cover it up, now they’re paying a top ex-NSA lawyer to teach them transparency bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 18/
#1yrago Private ambulances want a ban on firefighters rescuing babies pluralistic.net/2021/11/22/amr… 19/
Yesterday's threads: Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos; 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… 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/
Upcoming appearances:

* Kim Stanley Robinson's Gold Coast (@CalBookClub), Nov 22
altaonline.com/california-boo…

* Conversation with @Superwuster, #Informed22/@knightfdn (Miami), 11/30:
informed22.interkinnect.com 24/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (New Orleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 25/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), Mar 2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 26/
Recent appearances:

* @bizwithoutbs
open.spotify.com/episode/04GWer…

* @teamhumanshow interview
teamhuman.fm/episodes/229-c…

* How big tech traps consumers and shafts creators (@IrishTimes)
shows.acast.com/inside-politic… 27/
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/2022/11/22/fre… 28/
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. 29/
My latest @Medium column is "Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop: Ticketmaster and Ideas Lying Around"

doctorow.medium.com/anything-that-… 30/
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 31/
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/
Today's top sources: @Slashdot (slashdot.org). 33/

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