Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The Rent's Too Damned High; Highway to Hell; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/14/eut…
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The Rent's Too Damned High: A podcast of my Medium column on the long con of asset appreciation.
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Highway to Hell: The infrastructure "compromise" is just funny accounting.
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#20yrsago ORBS spam blocklist goes dark web.archive.org/web/2001061806…
#10yrsago WIPO boss: fair use is a "negative agenda," rights for blind people are a distraction, let's make more copyright! memex.craphound.com/2011/06/14/hea…
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#5yrsago Steeplejack: diverse YA fantasy driven by expert plotting memex.craphound.com/2016/06/14/ste…
#5yrsago Appeals court: FCC has jurisdiction to impose net neutrality on ISPs vice.com/en/article/8q8…
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#5yrsago Cable industry wants you to know that competition is bad for its customers techdirt.com/articles/20160…
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#5yrsago Goldman Sachs bribed Libyan officials with sex workers, private jet rides, then lost all their money theguardian.com/business/2016/…
#5yrsago Peter Thiel’s lawyer threatens Gawker for talking about Donald Trump’s “hair” gawker.com/now-peter-thie…
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#5yrsago Air Force loses access to database tracking fraud investigations to 2004 arstechnica.com/information-te…
#1yrago LA schools returned grenade launchers, kept assault rifles pluralistic.net/2020/06/14/wit…
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Yesterday's threads: A stroll through Magnolia Park; 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:
* Darts and Lasers podcast:
dartsandletters.ca/2021/06/11/ep2…
* @NicoleSandler Show:
* Fireside Chat with @BeaBusaniche (@Rightscon)
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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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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 "Illegitimate Greatness," on what we can learn from Ida M Tarbell's century-old critique of John D Rockefeller
doctorow.medium.com/illegitimate-g…
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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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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).
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