Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Taxes are for the little people; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/15/gui…
#Pluralistic
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Taxes are for the little people: If your eyes glaze over at "carried interest loophole," wait'll you hear about "fee waivers."
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Yesterday's threads: The Rent's Too Damned High; Highway to Hell; and more!
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#20yrsago Laid-off tech-workers crowd San Francisco homeless shelters memex.craphound.com/2001/06/15/lai…
#15yrsago PirateBay hides anti-MPAA taunt in DNS web.archive.org/web/2006090411…
#15yrsago Why Apple is to blame for iTunes DRM web.archive.org/web/2006062000…
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#15yrsago Jim Baen, science fiction publisher, has had a serious stroke nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ar…
#10yrsago Rotters: YA horror novel about grave-robbing chills, thrills, delights memex.craphound.com/2011/06/15/rot…
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#10yrsago French proposal: any URL to be arbitrarily blacklisted without due process laquadrature.net/en/2011/06/15/…
#10yrsago Apple patents mobile camera that other people can shut off web.archive.org/web/2017022618…
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#5yrsago The forgotten blockbuster locksport competitions of the mid-Victorian era muse.jhu.edu/article/597409…
#1yrago Huge trove of unprotected dating-app data pluralistic.net/2020/06/15/raf…
#1yrago Raffi on radical politics pluralistic.net/2020/06/15/raf…
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#1yrago Al Jaffee has retired pluralistic.net/2020/06/15/raf…
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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:
* Raging Chicken @rcpress podcast:
rcpress.podbean.com/e/out-dcoup-li…
* Darts and Lasers podcast:
dartsandletters.ca/2021/06/11/ep2…
* @NicoleSandler Show:
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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.
Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…
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