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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Dec 12, 2022 • 30 tweets • 27 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Orphaned neurological implants; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/uns…

#Pluralistic 1/ The staring eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Cente
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/… 2/
Orphaned neurological implants: When the company that powers your nervous system decides to 'pivot.'

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

* Merry Mixmas 2023 djriko.com/dls/DJ%20Riko%…

* Cyborgs on the Highways prospect.org/culture/books/…

* What actually is statistics? blog.piekniewski.info/2022/12/09/wha… 4/
#20yrsago Wardriver bumper-stickers staticusers.net/wardriver/

#15yrsago w00t is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2007 web.archive.org/web/2008050913…

#15yrsago RIP Anita Rowland, blogging pioneer and sf convention runner jackwilliambell.livejournal.com/198715.html 5/
#15yrsago Why do downloads make Amazon go crazy? theguardian.com/technology/200…

#15yrsago KnitML: standards-defined knitting patterns web.archive.org/web/2007121408…

#15yrsago Facebook’s Beacon was illegal as well as dumb laboratorium.net/archive/2007/1… 6/
#15yrsago Movable Type now under a free license movabletype.org/news/2007/12/m…

#15yrsago Neil Gaiman helps fan propose to girlfriend through book inscription web.archive.org/web/2007112922…

#15yrsago Terry Pratchett has rare, early-onset Alzheimer’s web.archive.org/web/2007121917… 7/
#10yrsago France remains America’s copyright crash-test dummy: about to ditch HADOPI, poised to adopt the dregs of SOPA instead techdirt.com/2012/12/10/fre…

#10yrsago Interlibrary Loan is awesome web.archive.org/web/2012122107… 8/
#10yrsago Understanding the NDAA, a US law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain people without charge or trial propublica.org/article/cuttin… 9/
#5yrsago How a maker with diabetes led an open source project to create a free-as-in-code artificial pancreas al.com/news/huntsvill… 10/
#5yrsago Independent auditor: Trump has made it impossible for students defrauded by predatory diploma mills to get their loans cancelled bbc.com/news/world-us-… 11/
#5yrsago Child molester Roy Moore said he wants to repeal all Constitutional amendments after the first ten, which would revive slavery and end votes for women and black people businessinsider.com/roy-moore-amen… 12/
#5yrsago German VW exec is going to US prison for seven years for his role in Dieselgate reuters.com/article/us-vol… 13/
#5yrsago A law-enforcement agency is trying to figure out who owns the bots that hacked the FCC’s Net Neutrality comment period, but the FCC is obstructing justice vice.com/en/article/wjz… 14/
#5yrsago 100 million Americans live in areas where every single ISP has admitted to violating net neutrality muninetworks.org/content/177-mi…

#5yrsago Security Planner: a peer-reviewed tool to help you figure out your personal digital security plan securityplanner.consumerreports.org 15/
#5yrsago Open primaries? Democratic establishment bars anyone who challenges an incumbent from using the party’s Votebuilder database wired.com/story/justice-… 16/
#5yrsago Your inbox is full of spyware-riddled emails that are both potentially very harmful to you and also very easy to disable wired.com/story/how-emai…

#5yrsago ACA isn’t enough: single-payer is a feminist issue jacobin.com/2017/12/single… 17/
Saturday's threads: Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech; and more!

18/ Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wi
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… 19/
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… 20/
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/ 21/
Upcoming appearances:

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

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 22/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 23/
Recent appearances:

* @dartsandletters:
dartsandletters.ca/2022/12/12/ep7…

* @bubtroubpodcast (Part 2)
bubbletroublepodcast.com/chokepoint-cap…

* Corporate Power (@privacyint)
media.privacyinternational.org/w/fKu4rZFZMCFZ…

* Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and Chokepoint Capitalism (@zingales)
capitalisnt.com/episodes/taylo… 24/
Recent appearances (cont'd):

* Plurality and democracy with @AudreyT (Liberté!)


* Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (@ClearerPodcast)
clearerthinkingpodcast.com/episode/135 25/
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/2022/12/12/uns… 26/
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 "Plato Would Ban Ad-Blockers: He was a dick."

doctorow.medium.com/plato-would-ba… 27/
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 28/
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… 29/
Today's top sources: Jeanne Kramer-Smyth (jeannekramersmyth.com). 30/

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Five years ago, Trump touted his "big, beautiful" replacement for NAFTA, the "free trade agreement" between the US, Mexico and Canada. Trump's NAFTA-2 was called the USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada Agreement) and it was pretty similar to NAFTA, to be honest.

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That tells you a couple things: first, NAFTA was, broadly speaking a good thing for Trump and the ultra-wealthy donors who backed him (and got far richer as a result). That's why he kept it intact.

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Jan 14
During the Napster wars, the record labels *seriously* pissed off millions of internet users when they sued over 19,000 music fans, mostly kids, but also grannies, old people, and dead people.

1/ A multiton bank vault door set in a red room. Within the vault, we see a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. In front of the fault is a ghoulish, skull-faced figure in a tailcoat and a red sash, holding a tube that is vomiting out a poorly differentiated stream of rubbish and slop.
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It's hard to overstate how badly the labels behaved. Like, there was the Swarthmore student who was the maintainer of a free/open source search engine that indexed files available in public sharepoints on the LAN.

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The social function of the economics profession is to explain, over and over again, that your boss is actually right and that you don't really want the things you want, and you're secretly happy to be abused by the system.

1/ A Soviet propaganda poster depicting two workers holding flags in front of a locomotive. The flags have been replaced with US flags. The locomotive's face has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The maxim below has been replaced with the lettering from a Walmart 'everyday low prices' sign. The background has been replaced with a posterized grocery aisle. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao (modified) ht...
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If that wasn't true, why would your "choose" commercial surveillance, abusive workplaces and other depredations?

In other words, economics is the "look what you made me do" stick that capitalism uses to beat us with.

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Jan 9
My next novel is *Picks and Shovels*, out next month. It's tells the origin story of Martin Hench, my hard-charging, scambusting, high-tech forensic accountant, in a 1980s battle over the soul of a PC company:



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Inside: The Brave Little Toaster; and more!

Archived at:

#Pluralistic

1/ pluralistic.net/2025/01/08/sir…A deluxe mid-century fridge, its double-doors swung wide to reveal many groceries. Before it stands a demon, suspending a screaming man by the hair from one taloned hand. One of the fridge's panels has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' In the background is a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. 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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There was never any question as to whether Trump would implement Project 2025, the 900-page brick of terrifying, unhinged policy prescriptions edited by the Heritage Foundation. He would *not* implement it, because he *could* not implement it. No one could. It's impossible.

1/ A WWII-era infirmary with two ranks of beds. Behind a bed on each side stands an outraged Tweedledee/Tweedledum figure from Tenniel's Alice Through the Looking Glass engravings, pulling their hair; they face one another. One is tinted green; the other, blue. Between them in the aisle stands an elephant in GOP livery, wearing a Trump wig. A spatter of blood climbs the wall on the right.
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This isn't a statement about constitutional limits on executive authority or the realpolitik of getting bizarre and stupid policies past judges or through a hair-thin Congressional majority. This is a statement about the incoherence of Project 2025 itself.

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