Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: A New American Manifesto; Adventures of a Dwergish Girl; Trudeau promises massive covid stimulus; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/09/25/dwe…
#Pluralistic
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My first-ever Kickstarter is on! Pre-order the audiobook and/or ebook of Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book, and help me redefine the way publishers, writers and readers deal with Big Tech monopolies!
kickstarter.com/projects/docto…
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A New American Manifesto: "Adapted from the Declaration of Independence."
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Adventures of a Dwergish Girl: Daniel Pinkwater scores a bullseye on the absurd-normalcy firing range.
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Trudeau promises massive covid stimulus: Fool me twice, you're the Prime Minister.
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#15yrsago Kate Wilhelm’s must-read writerly advice/history of Clarion memex.craphound.com/2005/09/25/kat…
#10yrsago FTC clobbers Roca Labs, the terrible weight-loss company that banned negative reviews popehat.com/2015/09/24/roc…
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#10yrsago Not just emissions: manufacturers’ dirty tricks fake everything about cars economist.com/briefing/2015/…
#5yrsago KARMA POLICE: GCHQ’s plan to track every Web user in the world theintercept.com/2015/09/25/gch…
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#5yrsago Appeals court rules Batmobile is a “character” and is copyrighted by DC arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#5yrsago The other ad-blocking ecosystem: blame-ducking medium.com/message/how-we…
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#1yrago Thomas Cook travel collapsed and stranded 150,000 passengers, but still had millions for the execs who tanked it reuters.com/article/us-tho…
#1yrago Lynda Barry is a Macarthur “genius” chicagotribune.com/entertainment/…
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#1yrago Stargazing: Jen Wang’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel for young readers is a complex tale of identity, talent, and loyalty memex.craphound.com/2019/09/25/sta…
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Yesterday's threads: Announcing the Attack Surface tour; WV's deabeat governor now owes $140m; Faulty TV behind daily, town-wide internet outages; Blogcritics on Attack Surface; and more!
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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:
onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…
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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.
read.macmillan.com/promo/attacksu…
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Upcoming talks:
* Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Seminar, Sept 25, hci.stanford.edu/courses/cs547/…
* Writing into an Uncertain Future, Afterwords Festival, Oct 1, eventbrite.ca/e/writing-into…
* 3 Big Ideas To Fix the Internet, Oct 7, nycmedialab.org/upcoming-event…
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Recent appearances:
* If Big Tech Is Toxic, How Do We Build Something Better?
blog.archive.org/2020/09/24/dwe…
* On ‘Attack Surface’ and WiFi Fridges (What a Hell of a Way to Die):
soundcloud.com/hellofawaytodi…
* Little Brother vs. Big Audiobook (Techdirt): techdirt.com/articles/20200…
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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.
pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.
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Today's top sources: JWZ (jwz.org/blog/)
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