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Today's threads (a thread).
Inside: Attack Surface in Wired; The herd immunity conspiracy; How to cheat at Clock Simulator; Someone Comes to Town, part 18; Facebook vs The Big Lebowski; Papercraft Haunted Mansion Hallowe'en; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/12/redeeming-hackers/
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Attack Surface in Wired: Toolsmith-user solidarity.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105022140671299163
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Someone Comes to Town, part 18: This week's podcast comes with a content warning.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105022683558137805
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Papercraft Haunted Mansion Hallowe'en: Print, color, decorate!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105022854159137662
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#15yrsago Vet’s obit: “send acerbic letters to Republicans” https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=15361018
#10yrago Canon’s printer/photocopier blocks jobs based on keywords https://www.itnews.com.au/news/canon-blocks-copy-jobs-by-keyword-235047
#10yrago Pratchett’s I Shall Wear Midnight, sentimental and fun book about a witch among enemies https://memex.craphound.com/2010/10/12/pratchetts-i-shall-wear-midnight-sentimental-and-fun-book-about-a-witch-among-enemies/
#10yrago Tom Waits and Preservation Hall Jazz Band release limited-edition 78RPM record and matching limited edition record-player https://pitchfork.com/news/40262-tom-waits-releases-78-rpm-record-and-player/
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#5yrsago https://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/oct/11/facebook-paid-4327-corporation-tax-despite-35-million-staff-bonuses
#5yrsago Facebook UK made £105M in 2014, paid £35M in bonuses, and will pay £4,327 in tax https://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/oct/11/facebook-paid-4327-corporation-tax-despite-35-million-staff-bonuses
#5yrsago Economics research considered unreplicable https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2015/files/2015083pap.pdf
#5yrsago Read: Austin Grossman’s moving text-adventure story “The Fresh Prince of Gamma World” https://www.wired.com/2015/10/excerpt-fresh-prince-of-gamma-world/
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#1yrago AT&T hikes business customers’ bills by up to 7%, charging them to recoup its own property taxes https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/att-raises-prices-7-by-making-its-customers-pay-atts-property-taxes/
#1yrago Google continues to funnel vast sums to notorious climate deniers https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers
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Yesterday's threads: Hong Kong's ghost protest posters; Basic income works; Sign thief turns newspaper thief; Attack Surface in The Observer; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105017115921095008
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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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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) 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."
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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/
* Milehicon (Guest of Honor!), Oct 23-5, <a href="https://milehicon.org/">https://milehicon.org/</a>
* 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: Hackaday (https://hackaday.com/), Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/).
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