Mollyycolllinss Authors Cory Doctorow #BLM
Inside: DC's security theater panned; Weaponing and monetizing apophenia; Awful voting-machine demands silence; Someone Comes to Town Part 27; and more!
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DC's security theater panned: The curtain-call's gonna be BRUTAL.
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After the 9/11 attacks, airlines and public buildings adopted a flurry of "security" measures, like taking away pen-knives from fliers or requiring visitors to office buildings to be photographed or present a driver's license.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Weaponing and monetizing apophenia: 5G conspiracies have a business-model.
https://t.co/UYj54qjPrn
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In 2003's Pattern Recognition, @greatdismal discusses the role of "apophenia" - finding patterns where none exist - in paranoid thinking. We are a pattern-matching animal, prone to seeing faces in clouds and hearing speech in static.https://t.co/lKHfKbvzLN
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Awful voting-machine demands silence: ES&S; piggybacks censorship on Dominion's grievances.
https://t.co/8VQsjC5hHQ
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One of the great ironies of the "stop the steal" conspiratorial fraud and its focus on Dominion's voting machines is that voting machines are, in fact, flaming garbage.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Someone Comes to Town Part 27: My latest podcast installment.
https://t.co/YGWxhe6VxQ
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This week on my podcast: part 27 of my serialized reading of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," my 2006 novel that Gene Wolfe called "a glorious book unlike any book you\u2019ve ever read." It's my last podcast of 2020!https://t.co/AfW9wyix9A
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Inside: Twitter's Project Blue Sky; Brazil's world-beating data breach; Evictions and utility cutoffs are covid comorbidities; "North Korea" targets infosec researchers; and more!
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Join me this Thursday for the launch of the print edition of my 2020 book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM!
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Twitter's Project Blue Sky: Fix the internet, not the platforms.
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It's been more than a year since @jack announced Project Blue Sky, inspired by @mmasnick's "Protocols, Not Platforms," paper - a critical work explaining how walled gardens can be transformed into open protocols.https://t.co/1yDSNJehRP
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 26, 2021
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Brazil's world-beating data breach: More than 100% of the population doxed.
https://t.co/6tcbcX2gQ6
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Brazil's public health agency has suffered what is arguably the worst data-exposure in world history, losing 243m+ records in a country of 211m people (the excess represents dead peoples' records).https://t.co/VsQUtIEnC7
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 26, 2021
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Evictions and utility cutoffs are covid comorbidities: 143,000 covid deaths due to economic precarity.
https://t.co/pZM80W5DuR
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"Public health" isn't just about vaccinations, clinics and urgent care: it's a holistic discipline that encompasses all the contributors to health outcomes, which include things like housing, employment, transportation, pollution and more.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 26, 2021
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Inside: 20 years a blogger; Will Biden bust trusts?; and more!
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20 years a blogger: Reflections on a lifetime of reflecting.
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It's been twenty years, to the day, since I published my first blog-post.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 13, 2021
I'm a blogger.
Blogging - publicly breaking down the things that seem significant, then synthesizing them in longer pieces - is the defining activity of my days. https://t.co/lksXhU6HKM
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Will Biden bust trusts?: Obama's third term would be a disaster for antitrust.
https://t.co/FMc798VhI0
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Despite the massive triumphs of the world's largest corporations and most rapacious billionaires during the covid crisis, neoliberalism is in ideological retreat: more people are more critical of the idea that "free markets" can solve big problems than at any time in my life.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 13, 2021
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#10yrsago Disney World’s awful Tiki Room catches fire https://t.co/exhhsaAnzD;
#10yrsago Disney World’s awful Tiki Room catches fire https://t.co/6t7jy4xIRt
#10yrsago Interview with hacker anthropologist Biella Coleman https://t.co/uf1wSr4X4L
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#5yrsago Income inequality makes the 1% sad, too https://t.co/DYzjE2uRFz
#1yrago The bubbles in VR, cryptocurrency and machine learning are all part of the parallel computing bubble https://t.co/qWZmB7u1sD
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