Today's threads (a thread).
Inside: Hong Kong's ghost protest posters; Basic income works; Sign thief turns newspaper thief; Attack Surface in The Observer; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/11/means-testing-conundrum/
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Hong Kong's ghost protest posters: "I Can Still Hear You."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105016554256700380
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Basic income works: Some thoughts on whether it should be "universal."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105016753041968054
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Sign thief turns newspaper thief: Hiassenish caper with Iowa characteristics.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105016866857552451
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Attack Surface in The Observer: "This will all be so great if we don't screw it up."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105017010296140259
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#15yrsago 1966 Batmobile as a papercraft replica https://web.archive.org/web/20051013085222/http://www.mundonu.com/blog/arquivo/2005/10/10/batmovel-1966-agora-e-para-valer/
#10yrsago Rise Again: would you rather be killed by zombies or Blackwater mercs? https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/11/rise-again-would-you-rather-be-killed-by-zombies-or-blackwater-mercs/
#10yrsago Irish High Court strikes down “3 strikes” copyright rule https://www.irishtimes.com/news/music-labels-lose-downloads-case-1.865393
#10yrsago Library of Congress: Copyright is killing sound archiving https://www.osnews.com/story/23888/us-library-of-congress-copyright-is-destroying-historic-audio/
#10yrsago Hitting droplets of nitroglycerin with a hammer in slow motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r17czTWHFmU
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#5yrsago Funny because it’s true: “Tories to build thousands of affordable second homes” https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/tories-to-build-thousands-of-affordable-second-homes-20151008102712
#1yrago Ikea’s founder was a Nazi, and never stopped praising the Nazi leader he called “Best Brother” https://lithub.com/on-the-far-right-past-of-ingvar-kamprad-founder-of-ikea/
#1yrago Fatboy Slim mashes up Greta Thunberg’s UN speech https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1181950192960131074
#1yrago 13 years later, World of Warcraft is STILL telling queer guilds they’re not allowed to advertise their queerness https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10/gay-world-of-warcraft-guild-forced-to-change-name-because-of-user-reports/
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#1yrago Verizon dumps another Oath property for peanuts: RIP, Mapquest https://searchengineland.com/a-eulogy-for-mapquest-322945
#1yrago The world’s “free trade zones”: hives of scum and villainy https://gfintegrity.org/free-trade-zones-a-pandoras-box-for-illicit-money/
#1yrago The Sacklers come to Sesame Street as a muppet is revealed to have had an addicted mother https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news-other-healthcare/465124-sesame-street-to-reveal-muppets-mom-suffered
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Friday's threads: MK-Ultra and the brainwashing grift; Machine Democrats; Mattis Dover's spectacular animations; and more!
I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
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My next book is ATTACK SURFACE, sequel to Little Brother and Homeland: it's a technothriller about a surveillance techie who goes home and learns the weapons she helped build are used against the racial justice movement founded by her best friend.
https://read.macmillan.com/promo/attacksurfacepreordercampaign/
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Upcoming talks:
* The Attack Surface Lectures: 8 nights of bookstore-hosted events in which I and a massive group of entertaining and knowledgeable experts discourse on my latest novel's themes, Oct 13-22 https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-doctorow-virtual-lecture-series/
* Coding Democracy/Toronto International Festival of Authors, Oct 24 https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-webb-coding-democracy/
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Recent appearances:
* David Pakman: It's Monopolies, Not Surveillance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K85I9_jKgVQ
* 3 Big Ideas to Fix The Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wO4cTKto_k&feature=youtu.be
* The Internet Is Broken, and ISPs Are to Blame (Gizmodo System Reboot)
https://gizmodo.com/the-internet-is-broken-and-isps-are-to-blame-1845289939
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My first picture book just came out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy
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Today's top sources: JWZ (https://www.jwz.org/blog/), Slashdot (https://slashdot.org/), Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).
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