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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Cyclopedia Exotica; Let's eat all the cicadas; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/11/uni…

#Pluralistic

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I'm doing two live events tomorrow, May 12:

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, a panel for the Knight Center's Reimagine the Internet event
knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…

* Book launch for Aminder Dhaliwal's Cyclopedia Exotica
crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…

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Cyclopedia Exotica: Aminder Dhaliwal's cryptid history of our one-eyed cousins.



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Let's eat all the cicadas: Harnessing the paperclip machine for good?



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#20yrsago Massively parallel Furby clustering trygve.com/furbeowulf.html

#15yrsago Diebold voting machines can be 0wned in minutes freedom-to-tinker.com/2006/05/11/rep…

#15yrsago Ask a Ninja tackles Net Neutrality

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#10yrsago Vernor Vinge on the promise, progress and threats of Augmented Reality ugotrade.com/2011/05/10/int…

#10yrsago American oligarch buys the right to hire professors at Florida State U web.archive.org/web/2011051121…

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#5yrsago Germany will end copyright liability for open wifi operators torrentfreak.com/germany-to-res…

#5yrsago Save Firefox: The W3C’s plan for worldwide DRM would have killed Mozilla before it could start eff.org/deeplinks/2016…

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#5yrsago NZ Prime Minister John Key ejected from Parliament over Panama Papers rant nzherald.co.nz/nz/prime-minis…

#1yrago Shanghai Disneyland re-opens pluralistic.net/2020/05/11/del…

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Yesterday's threads: Biden's shift on vaccine patents is a Big Deal; LA traveling toward free public transit; How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 6; 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:

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

* Book launch for Aminder Dhaliwal's Cyclopedia Exotica (Indigo), May 12, crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…

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Recent appearances:

* Can Antitrust Laws Destroy Surveillance Capitalism? (@majorityfm)


* In conversation with @Scalzi at the @GburgBookFest


* Hexapodia XIII with @delong and @noahpinion
braddelong.substack.com/p/podcast-hexa…

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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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