Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight; How apps steal your location; Understanding /r/wallstreetbets; Knowledge is why you build your own apps; and more!

Archived at: https://t.co/6BOyhL3tEj

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Join me this afternoon for the launch of the print edition of my 2020 book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM!

https://t.co/8Op6IEocPB

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Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight: First Nations treaties do not sign away electromagnetic franchises.

https://t.co/BBsxXuGQe3

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How apps steal your location: A deep dive into the murky depths of surveillance markets.

https://t.co/mV7u2FYylT

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Understanding /r/wallstreetbets: More than a bull run, a symbiosis of a market maker and market destroyers.

https://t.co/7zr1N4vkjV

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Knowledge is why you build your own apps: Outsourcing software development squanders vital understanding.

https://t.co/fb9U6kdS2p

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#15yrsago Photographer’s bust-card silkscreened on white-balance cards https://t.co/AeAdoPEOdF

#15yrsago What the LibreOffice fork means for Oracle’s shabby treatment of Sun’s free software projects https://t.co/NMqzXwohco

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#15yrsago Danny O’Brien’s Open Source con presentation on Evil https://t.co/XnNA1GTwjF

#10yrsago William Gibson on Stuxnet https://t.co/8ystFfWRRo

#10yrsago Fair use for poets, demystified https://t.co/gQEPxOAsQV

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#5yrsago Bill Gates sold rights to the Tiananmen 1989 pictures to a Chinese company https://t.co/6Ne78KoE0y

#5yrsago Guess who donated all the money to Black Americans for a Better Future Super PAC? Rich white men. https://t.co/3vHwKybCwh

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#5yrsago Anaheim: the happiest surveillance state on earth https://t.co/lEDn8bVtPr

#5yrsago Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen wipes out coral reef with his superyacht https://t.co/zlVs92OiPB

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#5yrsago Florida mayors write to GOP presidential hopefuls demanding action on climate change https://t.co/CtQY0W35V3

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#1yrago “A piece of shit”: Government report on Wells Fargo corruption shows top executives’ direct complicity in millions of acts of fraud https://t.co/yqDEMC7zVT

#1yrago A vase ringed with razor-sharp knives https://t.co/z1ErghPDJV

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#1yrago “The Art of Computer Designing”: stark, beautiful black-and-white images from 1993 https://t.co/sNm21DiqKb

#1yrago RIP, Jason Polan, who tried to draw every single person in New York City https://t.co/4rNDagrb3R

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#1yrago What happens when you steadily ramp up the speed at which you listen to podcasts https://t.co/O7L4xfcBQZ

#1yrago After ransomware took Baltimore hostage, Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing the bugs ransomware exploits https://t.co/ZHuXj8xleO

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#1yrago The “ops lessons we all learn the hard way” https://t.co/oFygUGqUMS

#1yrago Ajit Pai promised that killing net neutrality would spur network investment, but instead Comcast cut spending by 10.5% https://t.co/x3WtwmEyQq

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#1yrago The Catholic Church broke its promise to publish a list of “credibly accused” abuser priests, so Propublica did it for them https://t.co/GkQ9fBnv0w

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Yesterday's threads: Casino mogul steals First Nation's vaccine; Facebook champions (its own) privacy; Goldman CEO gets $17.5m reward for $4.5b fraud; and more!

https://t.co/io2BfxOFfn

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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."

Get signed books from @darkdel: https://t.co/HfWfdx8sIu

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My 2020 book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposing a way to deal with both:

https://t.co/Us0SPxlcmD

Now, it's available in paperback!

https://t.co/x2eXIkUY64

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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."

https://t.co/vpGcSZiPZ2

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Upcoming appearances:

* Launch for the print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, Jan 28, https://t.co/8Op6IEocPB

* Launch for the young adult edition of Edward Snowden's memoir PERMANENT RECORD, Feb 9, https://t.co/BY6hqpJFeO

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Recent appearances:

* Monocle Reads https://t.co/ENWPDLYVXg

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard Cyber):
https://t.co/7YeNDAjLfc

* Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change:
https://t.co/syTXEF1gFz

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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.

https://t.co/yQLVua4WkB

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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at https://t.co/iSBh8s9m7q: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at //twitter.com/[email protected]." target="_blank">@[email protected].

Here's today's edition: https://t.co/HnXzn1iWrm

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Today's top sources: Nat Torkington (), Naked Capitalism (https://t.co/iNjUCBfMr0).

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More from Cory Doctorow #BLM

There are lots of problems with ad-tech:

* being spied on all the time means that the people of the 21st century are less able to be their authentic selves;

* any data that is collected and retained will eventually breach, creating untold harms;

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* data-collection enables for discriminatory business practices ("digital redlining");

* the huge, tangled hairball of adtech companies siphons lots (maybe even most) of the money that should go creators and media orgs; and

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* anti-adblock demands browsers and devices that thwart their owners' wishes, a capability that can be exploited for even more nefarious purposes;

That's all terrible, but it's also IRONIC, since it appears that, in addition to everything else, ad-tech is a fraud, a bezzle.

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Bezzle was John Kenneth Galbraith's term for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it." That is, a rotten log that has yet to be turned over.

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Bezzles unwind slowly, then all at once. We've had some important peeks under ad-tech's rotten log, and they're increasing in both intensity and velocity. If you follow @Chronotope, you've had a front-row seat to the

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https://t.co/krO69CsJ94 is in 2013, RsWIV1. notice that this is before the beginning of the project

starting in 2016. Also remember that they told about only 3 isolates/live viruses. RsSHC014 is a live infectious clone that is just as alive as those other "Isolates".

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