Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Prisoners' Inventions; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/09/kin…
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Prisoners' Inventions: The unmissable new edition of a maker classic for a carceral nation.
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#15yrsago @DougCoupland's JPod: the Anti-Microserfs memex.craphound.com/2006/06/09/cou…
#10yrsago Lisa Goldstein’s The Uncertain Places: Grimm fairytale in California vibrates with believable unreality memex.craphound.com/2011/06/09/lis…
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#10yrsago American right upset at report that Thatcher won’t meet Palin theguardian.com/world/2011/jun…
#10yrsago AT&T lobbies Wisconsin GOP to nuke Wisconsin’s best-of-breed co-op ISP for educational institutions muninetworks.org/content/does-a…
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#5yrsago UK Parliament votes in #SnoopersCharter, now it goes to the House of Lords techdirt.com/articles/20160…
#5yrsago How we will keep the Decentralized Web decentralized: my talk from the #DWeb Summit
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#5yrsago Internet elders and upstarts gather to redecentralize the Internet nytimes.com/2016/06/08/tec…
#5yrsago Banks confront negative interest rates with plans to store titanic bundles of money on-site nakedcapitalism.com/2016/06/banks-…
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#5yrsago New York Attorney General to Time Warner: your Internet is “abysmal” and “troubling” arstechnica.com/information-te…
#5yrsago Hard times for judge who sued dry-cleaner for $65M over missing pants loweringthebar.net/2016/06/pants-…
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#1yrago Auditing Omniballot, a terrible e-voting system pluralistic.net/2020/06/09/war…
#1yrago Police budgets are out of control pluralistic.net/2020/06/09/war…
#1yrago Paramount's Unproduced Screenplays pluralistic.net/2020/06/09/war…
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Yesterday's threads: Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon; Apple's manorial security; Billionaires don't pay tax; Google and France agree on ad-tech interop; 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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Recent appearances:
* Fireside Chat with @BeaBusaniche (Rightscon)
* @GenreTalk Podcast:
anchor.fm/genretalkpodca…
* Get Your News On With Ron/@RonPlacone:
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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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!
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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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My latest @Medium column is "The Rent’s Too Damned High," about the long con of convincing Americans that they will grow prosperous through housing wealth, not labor rights
doctorow.medium.com/the-rents-too-…
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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: @BoingBoing (boingboing.net).
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