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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Dec 19, 2022 • 37 tweets • 35 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Better failure for social media; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/bet…

#Pluralistic 1/ Moses confronting the Pharaoh, demanding that he release the
#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but @GovHochul hasn't signed it and it might die. Visit eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!). 2/
Better failure for social media: The right of exit, freedom of reach, and technological self-determination.

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

* Mandelmap poster mandelmap.com/product-page/m… (h/t @Kottke)

* @ProPublica Launches Investigative Editor Training Program propublica.org/article/propub…

* this house may or may not be real mcmansionhell.com/post/703763852… 4/
#20yrsago Libraries get Audible audiobooks web.archive.org/web/2003021211…

#20yrsago Videos of GW Bush cracking jokes with Enron execs about accounting fraud latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

#20yrsago Elcomsoft not guilty on all counts! web.archive.org/web/2003010104… 5/
#20yrsago Technically legal signs for anti-PATRIOT ACT librarians librarian.net/technicality.h…

#20yrsago Disney cartoons not hypnotic enough for boys web.archive.org/web/2003021213…

#15yrsago Abandoned Sun Microsystems building photo-tour web.archive.org/web/2006021110… 6/
#15yrsago Science is linguistic as well as numerical radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/…

#15yrsago HOWTO Make a BristleBot vibrating toothbrush robot evilmadscientist.com/2007/bristlebo…

#15yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson on “Comparative Planetology” bldgblog.com/2007/12/compar… 7/
#15yrsago Great Firewall of China crumbling from within wired.com/2007/10/ff-chi…

#15yrsago @DBtodomundo’s guide to being a musician in the 21st century web.archive.org/web/2008030602…

#15yrsago @DBtodomundo and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke talk music biz wired.com/2007/12/ff-yor… 8/
#15yrsago MTV declares music industry “broken” web.archive.org/web/2007121906…

#10yrsago Lessons from an author who switched from a commercial publisher to an audience-funded Kickstarter book tobiasbuckell.com/how-i-used-kic… 9/
#10yrsago Amazon Replacement Order Scam: anatomy of a social engineering con in action web.archive.org/web/2012123023…

#10yrsago Point of Sale skimmer that prints out real-seeming receipts 10/
#10yrsago If you’re suspected of drug involvement, America takes your house; HSBC admits to laundering cartel billions, loses five weeks’ income and execs have to partially defer bonuses web.archive.org/web/2012122101… 11/
#10yrsago Anonymous declares religious war on Westboro Baptist Church arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Woman gets stem-cell “wrinkle treatment,” grows extra bones in her eye-socket scientificamerican.com/article/stem-c… 12/
#5yrsago Rich people in Bristol install anti-bird spikes in trees to keep shit off their cars, rendering trees “literally uninhabitable” by local wildlife independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… 13/
#5yrsago Wells Fargo CEO promises to spend not one cent of the GOP tax gift on investment or wages thinkprogress.org/wells-fargo-ce…

#5yrsago Only Chinese companies will be allowed to map Chinese roads thedrive.com/tech/17001/chi… 14/
#5yrsago Trump’s Department of Labor proposes rule that lets employers steal employees’ tips epi.org/publication/em…

#5yrsago Stop charging AT-ATs (What the Rebellion should do in order to improve its anti-Empire tactics) wired.com/story/star-war… 15/
#5yrsago The Trumpdroid at Disney’s Hall of Presidents looks an awful lot like a hastily modded Hillarybot

#5yrsago Superb science fiction story in the form of a list of failed attempts to stave off climate extinction vice.com/en/article/xwv… 16/
#5yrsago The final draft of the GOP tax plan transfers even more wealth to the 1%: now they get 83% taxpolicycenter.org/publications/d… 17/
#5yrsago CBD is a non-psychoactive compound in marijuana that shows promise in epilepsy and pain therapy, so the DEA wants to class it with heroin arstechnica.com/science/2017/1… 18/
#5yrsago @EFF to US Copyright Office: fix the DRM rules that stop us from fixing our stuff, make fair use, and make IoT gadgets work the way we want eff.org/press/releases…

#5yrsago The Donald Trump droid is live at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2017/12/t… 19/
#5yrsago Ted Chiang: Elon Musk’s fear of runaway AI is a projection of his repressed terror of runaway corporations buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchi… 20/
#5yrsago The Tea Party’s baseless claims of IRS discrimination left the agency on life-support, unable to police dark money gushing through “charities” washingtonpost.com/investigations… 21/
#5yrsago Anatomy of how crooks use financial secrecy in the UK and New Zealand to rip off international investors with impunity interest.co.nz/business/91250… 22/
#5yrsago When Justin Trudeau was in opposition, he voted for Canada’s PATRIOT Act but promised to fix it; instead he’s making it much, much worse citizenlab.ca/2017/12/citize… 23/
#5yrsago As climate deniers claim credit for killing Net Neutrality, the FCC’s internal auditor reveals that Neutracide was based on a lie vice.com/en/article/vby… 24/
#5yrsago EPA employees who spoke out about Trump are having their emails ransacked, and the EPA’s new “monitoring” firm is linked to a GOP oppo research firm nytimes.com/2017/12/17/us/… 25/
#5yrsago China will collect the DNA of every adult in Xinjiang province, where Uyghur people are systematically oppressed techdirt.com/2017/12/18/chi…

#5yrsago Female adolescent macaques practice sex by mounting male deer link.springer.com/article/10.100… 26/
Friday's threads: The antitrust Twilight Zone; 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… 28/
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… 29/
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/ 30/
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… 31/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration
fwean 32/
Recent appearances:

* New Books in Public Policy (@PitPolicy):
open.spotify.com/episode/2niuM0…

* How to take back the arts from Big Tech (@TheRealNews)


* @dartsandletters:
dartsandletters.ca/2022/12/12/ep7… 33/
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Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/bet… 34/
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 "'Metaverse' means 'pivot to video'"

doctorow.medium.com/metaverse-mean… 35/
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Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 36/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered). 37/

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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.

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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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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.

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Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book on why I'm sick of AI⹋, which @fsgbooks will publish in 2026.

‡probably

⹋"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI"

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A week ago, I turned that book into a speech, which I delivered as the annual Nordlander Memorial Lecture at Cornell, where I'm an AD White Professor-at-Large.

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Billionaires don't think we're real. How could they? How could you inflict the vast misery that generates billions while still feeling even a twinge of empathy for the sufferer in your extractive enterprise. No wonder Elon Musk calls us "NPCs":



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I'm only a few chapters into Bill McKibben's stupendous new book *Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization* and I already know it's going to change my outlook forever:



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McKibben is one of our preeminent climate writers and activists, noteworthy for his informed and brilliant explanations of the technical limits - and possibilities - of various climate interventions, and for his lifelong organizing work.

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One of the dumbest, shrewdest tricks corporate America ever pulled was teaching us all to reflexively say, "If a corporation blocks your speech, that doesn't violate the First Amendment and therefore it's not censorship":



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Censorship isn't limited to government action: it's the act of preventing a message from a willing speaker from reaching a willing listener. The fact that it's censorship doesn't (necessarily) mean that it's illegitimate or bad.

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