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Inside: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik…

#Pluralistic 1/ A modified vintage editorial cartoon. Uncle Sam peeks out ov
I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, an anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:

redteamblues.com 2/
We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too.

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

* The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet publicinfrastructure.org/2023/03/29/the…

* A misleading open letter about sci-fi #AI dangers ignores the real risks aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/a-misleading… 4/
#20yrsago @Weezer’s symbolic value web.archive.org/web/2019051902…

#15yrsago Griefers deface #epilepsy message-board with seizure-inducing animations wired.com/2008/03/hacker… 5/
#15yrsago London’s #Spitalfields market: shoot the architecture, we take away your camera memex.craphound.com/2008/03/30/rem…

#15yrsago Remixed generic thrift-store clothes memex.craphound.com/2008/03/30/rem… 6/
#10yrsago Embarrassingly obvious undercover cops take to Twitter looking for #HouseShows slate.com/news-and-polit…

#10yrsago Mr Unpronounceable Adventures, spectacularly weird graphic novel in a Lovecraftian/Burroughsian vein memex.craphound.com/2013/03/30/mr-… 7/
#10yrsago Group whose #Wikipedia entry was deleted for non-notability threatens lawsuit against Wikipedian who participated in the discussion mako.cc/copyrighteous/…

#5yrsago Georgia criminalizes routine #SecurityResearch eff.org/deeplinks/2018… 8/
#5yrsago Trump administration will require every visitor to the USA to divulge all social media identities bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago Facebook deathwatch: a decade ago, it was impossible to imagine the fall of #Myspace memex.craphound.com/2018/03/30/fac… 9/
#5yrsago #Oklahoma #teachers walk out, sensing weakness from GOP legislators who caved on taxing the oil industry jacobin.com/2018/03/oklaho…

#5yrsago #Referendums and low-engagement voters produce catastrophic outcomes (but what about corruption?) timharford.com/2018/03/how-re… 10/
#5yrsago Five years after Google conquered and abandoned #RSS, the news-reader ecosystem is showing green shoots wired.com/story/rss-read…

#5yrsago “Kingpin: The Hunt for El Chapo”: Game designers review the #CIA’s declassified tabletop training game vice.com/en/article/3kj… 11/
#1yrago Hackers' code-free exploit: pretend to be cops pluralistic.net/2022/03/30/law… 12/
Yesterday's threads: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy; 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… 14/
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… 15/
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/ 16/
Upcoming appearances:

* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…

* Red Team Blues at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc… 17/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues at @darkdel (#Burbank), Apr 26
darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

* @baybookfest (#Berkeley/#BABF2023), 5/6-7
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d… 18/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), 5/10
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…

* Red Team Blues at @WordfestTweets (#Calgary), 5/11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor… 19/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (Manchester), 5/31
waterstones.com/events/in-conv… 20/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste… 21/
Recent appearances:

* Is Copyright Good For Authors? (@TWiT)


* @culturejourno: What is chokepoint capitalism?
theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/chokepoint-c…

* Techtonic with @markhurst | @WFMU
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cor… 22/
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/2023/03/30/tik… 23/
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. 24/
My latest @Medium column is "Silicon Valley Noir: Red Team Blues and the Role of Bitterness in Technothrillers"

doctorow.medium.com/silicon-valley… 25/
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!

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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). 27/

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With the #RESTRICTAct, #Congress wants to continue #Trump's war on #Tiktok, banning the Chinese-owned service. How will they do this? Congress isn't clear. In practice, banning stuff on the internet is hard, especially without a national firewall:

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