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.
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