Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: My Fellow Americans; Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism; SC GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges"; Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers"; and more!

Archived at: https://t.co/X4sEk5g09z

#Pluralistic

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My Fellow Americans: Audio, text and commentary for every president's inaugural address.

https://t.co/LR7wvnV8i0

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Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism: Tech companies as warlords with walled gardens.

https://t.co/uQ9rDCA8i3

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South Carolina GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges": Lewis Carroll was an optimist.

https://t.co/1AQpZYwhOj

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Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers": Prop 22's other shoe drops.

https://t.co/hlX0A0S96c

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#15yrsago Study: Best place to advertise to teens is in-game https://t.co/9zO12CJjlR

#15yrsago Hollywood’s Canadian Member of Parliament https://t.co/9iHQ36YIt9

#5yrsago Thomas Piketty on Thomas Piketty https://t.co/1DzLZI26mk

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Yesterday's threads: Ad-tech is a bezzle; Google's unionizing; The Data Detective; Damon Knight's Why Do Birds is back; Endorsing the Forward 43 slate; and more!

https://t.co/PzHo7AwErJ

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

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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://t.co/Us0SPxlcmD

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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 appearances:

* What if the future of our public lives online looked like _____? (panel at New_ Public), Jan 13, https://t.co/PoSqIqU7TA

* Evening with William Gibson, Jan 25, https://t.co/k3fvBd9dSs

* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, https://t.co/neeqzKsANA

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Recent appearances:

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard):
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* Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change:
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* 2020 Beaverbrook Lecture:
https://t.co/SGDUBRVAC1

* Bibliotherapy/Shelf Healing:
https://t.co/nPJvYlpa9S

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My first picture book is 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.

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Today's top sources: Super Punch (https://t.co/1lNWKQFrNA).

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More from Cory Doctorow #BLM

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: ADT insider threat; Billionaires think VR stops guillotines; Privacy Without Monopoly; and more!

Archived at: https://t.co/nu1HbReiEX

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This Wednesday, I'm giving a talk called "Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future" for the Purdue University CERIAS Program:

https://t.co/po5IivZyr4

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ADT insider threat: If you build it they will spy.

https://t.co/kJrmtu8L3S

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Billionaires think VR stops guillotines: TARP with tasps.

https://t.co/MIKwvsICkr

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Privacy Without Monopoly: Podcasting a reading of the latest EFF whitepaper.

https://t.co/R2sl75y4rb

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More from Government

I don't normally do threads like this but I did want to provide some deeper thoughts on the below and why having a video game based on a real world war crime from the same people that received CIA funding isn't the best idea.

This will go pretty in depth FYI.


The core reason why I'm doing this thread is because:

1. It's clear the developers are marketing the game a certain way.

2. This is based on something that actually happened, a war crime no less. I don't have issues with shooter games in general ofc.

Firstly, It's important to acknowledge that the Iraq war was an illegal war, based on lies, a desire for regime change and control of resources in the region.

These were lies that people believed and still believe to this day.

It's also important to mention that the action taken by these aggressors is the reason there was a battle in Fallujah in the first place. People became resistance fighters because they were left with nothing but death and destruction all around them after the illegal invasion.

This is where one of the first red flags comes up.

The game is very much from an American point of view, as shown in the description.

When it mentions Iraqi civilians, it doesn't talk about them as victims, but mentions them as being pro US, fighting alongside them.

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