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Tomorrow (Aug 13), I'm co-presenting a program item at @defcon (Las Vegas) called "Literal Self-Pwning: Why Patients - and Their Advocates - Should Be Encouraged to Hack, Improve, and Mod Med Tech" with @CDameffMD & @jefftullymd:
The biggest fallacy in the online privacy is that there is a difference between "state surveillance" and "commercial surveillance." Bizarrely, it's a fallacy that is widely held by both government snoops and Big Tech snoops. 1/
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#Pluralistic 1/
This Sat (Aug 13), I'm co-presenting a program item at @defcon (Las Vegas) called "Literal Self-Pwning: Why Patients - and Their Advocates - Should Be Encouraged to Hack, Improve, and Mod Med Tech" with @CDameffMD & @jefftullymd:
The "American Prosperity Alliance" does not exist, except as an anonymously controlled bank account that has paid for the production and dissemination of a slick ad that spreads the falsehood that the Democrats have cut $300b from Medicare:
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Monstrous Compendium Annual Three (published in 1996, but containing monsters that appeared over the course of 1995), vintagerpg.tumblr.com/post/692259857…
Monstrous Compendium Annual Three (published in 1996, but containing monsters that appeared over the course of 1995), vintagerpg.tumblr.com/post/692259857…
Aug 10 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If you're furious about FB handing over a teenager's medicine abortion messages to cops but you also don't want a Big Tech that's so powerful it can ignore court orders, consider this perspective, from @EFF's @cmcsherr:
"Companies generally have to respond to a valid warrant, although they can take care to ensure that it really is valid, and fight it if not.
Aug 10 • 33 tweets • 35 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: A modest proposal to fix contracts; and more!
#Pluralistic 1/
This Sat (Aug 13), I'm co-presenting a program item at @Defcon (Las Vegas) called "Literal Self-Pwning: Why Patients - and Their Advocates - Should Be Encouraged to Hack, Improve, and Mod Med Tech" with @CDameffMD & @jefftullymd:
I get why people ask this question, but it's the wrong one. The right question is, "Why does the @FTC let printer companies get away with blatant ripoffs that steal from millions of Americans?"
Every time I click through one of those garbage legalese novellas you're expected to say "I Agree" to before doing something totally normal and inconsequential, I'm reminded of the legendary Lenny Bruce bit "Eat, Sleep and Crap."
An animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, done in crayon and watercolor on paper by John Schnall. (1984) starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/692067755…
An animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, done in crayon and watercolor on paper by John Schnall. (1984) starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/692067755…
#Pluralistic 1/
Next Sat (Aug 13), I'm co-presenting a program item at @Defcon (Las Vegas) called "Literal Self-Pwning: Why Patients - and Their Advocates - Should Be Encouraged to Hack, Improve, and Mod Med Tech" with @CDameffMD & @jefftullymd:
This week on my podcast, I read "So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me," my @Medium describing the joys of writing to attract the audience of people who want to read what you want to write.
doctorow.medium.com/so-youve-decid… 1/
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