Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: We CAN have nice things; Howard Dean's racist, genocidal pharma sellout; 60 seconds of giddy, terrifying, delightful surrealism; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/08/how…
#Pluralistic
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Next Tuesday, I'm giving a workshop in collaboration with Phoenix's Changing Hands bookstore: "All the Teachable Things I Know About Writing":
changinghands.com/event/april202…
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We CAN have nice things: Why - and how - America's New New Deal should go VERY VERY big.
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Howard Dean's racist, genocidal pharma sellout: Once a progressive lion, now a shill for the worst companies on Earth. Fuck that guy sideways with a brick.
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60 seconds of giddy, terrifying, delightful surrealism: The magic realism of Fernando Livschitz.
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#5yrsago Pope invites Bernie Sanders to Vatican to speak about “social, economic, and environmental” issues bbc.com/news/election-…
#5yrsago The international art market is a money laundry whose details are in the Panama Papers fusion.tv/story/288515/p…
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#5yrsago Tax investigators use Rich Kids of Instagram to uncover oligarchs’ hidden millions theguardian.com/technology/201…
#1yrago Nurse suspended for distributing crowdfunded PPE pluralistic.net/2020/04/08/non…
#1yrago Plain Dealer executed by unionbusting owners pluralistic.net/2020/04/08/non…
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Yesterday's threads: Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual; Door Dashers organize app-defeating solidarity; and more!
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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: darkdel.com/store/p1840/Av…
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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:
onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…
Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…
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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 appearances:
* All the Teachable Things I Know About Writing, Apr 13, changinghands.com/event/april202…
* Interop: Self-Determination vs Dystopia (FITC), Apr 19-21, fitc.ca/presentation/i…
* Launch for @Bruces' Robot Artists & Black Swans, Apr 27, bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…
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Recent appearances:
* Right to Repair, Monopolies, and Solarpunk
* The surveillance state, digital monopolies, and why we should be worried (Podsongs)
anchor.fm/podsongs/episo…
* Conspiracy Theories (Utopian Horizons):
soundcloud.com/utopianhorizon…
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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.
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.
Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…
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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com, Kottke kottke.org).
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