Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Efficiency is very inefficient; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/03/jit…
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Tomorrow, Jun 4, I'm appearing with @DDayen in the Second Life Book Club!
draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…
And next Monday, Jun 7, I'm helping @TKMiles launch his debut novel RABBITS:
eventbrite.com/e/terry-miles-…
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Efficiency is very inefficient: Resiliency is not a market good.
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#10yrsago Unauthorized designs for a line of 1971 Walt Disney World merchandise disneydesignerland.blogspot.com
#10yrsago $10,000,000 in venture capital for grilled-cheese sandwich “platform” venturebeat.com/2011/06/01/the…
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#5yrsago Defense lawyers: the FBI made us use a copy-shop that made secret copies for the government floridabulldog.org/2016/06/u-s-at…
#5yrsago Canada Post drops legal claim over crowdsourced postal code database michaelgeist.ca/2016/06/crowds…
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#5yrsago Neil Gaiman on Douglas Adams vice.com/en/article/ezp…
#5yrsago Flintnation: 33 US cities caught cheating on municipal water lead tests theguardian.com/environment/20…
#1yrago Why protests become violent pluralistic.net/2020/06/03/whi…
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Yesterday threads: NYC's driver-owned Uber alternative; Amazon running scared from arbitration at scale; How the Dutch helped CBS cheat on its taxes; 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 @DDayen (Second Life Book Club), Jun 4, draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…
* Book launch for @TKMiles's Rabbits (@BookSoup), Jun 7, eventbrite.com/e/terry-miles-…
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Recent appearances:
* Get Your News On With Ron/@RonPlacone:
* Seize the Means of Computation, Consensus 2021
coindesk.com/cory-doctorow-…
* How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, @RyersonCFE:
cfe.ryerson.ca/key-resources/…
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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 @MCRockefeller. 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: @kenyattacheese (finalbossform.com).
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