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Author/activist/journalist. New book: THE BEZZLE, a thriller about the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve https://t.co/4ZExCQHv6q @pluralistic@mamot.fr

May 2, 2021, 18 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: XKCD's scientific microfiction meme; Attack Surface is a Locus Awards finalist; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/02/mic…

#Pluralistic

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On May 7, the @GburgBookFest is featuring me in an interview conducted by John @Scalzi; we pre-recorded the event but I'll be in the live chat for the premiere.



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XKCD's scientific microfiction meme: "Types of scientific paper."



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Attack Surface is a Locus Awards finalist: And what EXCELLENT company it's in!



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#20yrsago Microsoft slams Open Source. Again. nytimes.com/2001/05/03/bus…

#20yrsago Fiery screed about the state of Linux desktop environments web.archive.org/web/2002120405…

#15yrsago Rich Americans as sick as poor Brits web.archive.org/web/2006051622…

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#15yrsago Classic multi-ending MAD flexidisc MP3s scarstuff.blogspot.com/2006/04/mad-ma…

#10yrsago Brust’s Tiassa: versatile fantasy in three modes memex.craphound.com/2011/05/02/bru…

#10yrsago Will technology make us freer, and if so, how? locusmag.com/2011/05/cory-d…

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#1yrago Kim Stanley Robinson on "our rewritten imagination" pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…

#1yrago Ticketmaster gets $500m from Mohammad bin Salman pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…

#1yrago How "contact tracing" apps could be worse than useless pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…

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#1yrago Prisons, meatpacking plants, nursing homes pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…

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Yesterday's threads: Political economy vs inflation; 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:

* In conversation with @Scalzi, May 7,

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, May 12, knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…

* Launch for @Aminder_d's Cyclopedia Exotica, May 13, crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…

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Recent appearances:

* Talking "Robot Artists & Black Swans" with Bruce Sterling archive.org/details/robot-…

* The Right to Repair Movement, Monopolies, & Solarpunk

* The surveillance state, monopolies, and why worry (Podsongs) anchor.fm/podsongs/episo…

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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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