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Author/activist/journalist. New book: PICKS AND SHOVELS, a Marty Hench adventure from the dawn of enshittification: https://t.co/zGDGhU2RvP @pluralistic@mamot.fr

May 12, 2021, 19 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Crooked Timber's Ministry for the Future Seminar; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/12/sem…

#Pluralistic

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I'm doing two live events today, 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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Crooked Timber's Ministry for the Future Seminar: It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.



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#20yrsago RIP, Douglas Adams news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1…

#10yrsago Napier’s Bones: math and mysticism make for great international adventure memex.craphound.com/2011/05/12/nap…

#10yrsago China’s shonky Disneyland-a-like park closed thedisneyblog.com/2011/05/13/fak…

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#5yrsago Open letter to from EFF to members of the W3C Advisory Committee eff.org/deeplinks/2016…

#5yrsago Reading With Pictures: awesome, classroom-ready comics for math, social studies, science and language arts memex.craphound.com/2016/05/12/rea…

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#5yrsago Anal fisting site breached: 100K passwords, usernames, email addresses and IPs extracted vice.com/en/article/qkj…

#5yrsago Chinese state-backed corporations beat US lawsuits with sovereign immunity reuters.com/article/us-chi…

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#5yrsago German publishers owe writers €100M in misappropriated royalties uebermedien.de/4444/schoener-…

#5yrsago Gallery show of forks stolen from rich people, sealed to preserve crumbs & saliva theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

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#1yrago Plane ticket refunds (without airline cooperation) pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evi…

#1yrago The right's theories about human behavior are bankrupt pluralistic.net/2020/05/12/evi…

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Yesterday's threads: Cyclopedia Exotica; Let's eat all the cicadas; 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:

* Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans
open.spotify.com/episode/01dGJO…

* Can Antitrust Laws Destroy Surveillance Capitalism? (Majority Report)


* In conversation with John Scalzi at the Gaithersburg Book Festival


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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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/05/12/sem…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

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If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🧑🏿‍🚀". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list

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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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