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Author/activist/journalist. New book: THE BEZZLE, a thriller about the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve https://t.co/4ZExCQHv6q @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Jun 21, 2021, 14 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Inside the Clock Tower"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/21/int…

#Pluralistic

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Podcasting "Inside the Clock Tower": Reading my Consumer Reports story about an interoperable future.



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#5yrsago Dieselgate for GPUs: review-units ship at higher clockspeeds than retail ones theverge.com/circuitbreaker…

#5yrsago Phones without headphone jacks are phones with DRM for audio theverge.com/circuitbreaker…

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#5yrsago Donald Trump sources $6M worth of campaign expenditures from companies he and his family own web.archive.org/web/2016062114…

#1yrago The Case for a Job Guarantee pluralistic.net/2020/06/22/job…

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Yesterday's threads: How to cheat on your 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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Recent appearances:

* The ACCESS Act, @ConsumerReports:
consumerreports.org/digital-rights…

* Raging Chicken @rcpress podcast:
rcpress.podbean.com/e/out-dcoup-li…

* Darts and Lasers podcast:
dartsandletters.ca/2021/06/11/ep2…

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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/2021/06/21/int…

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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.

My latest Medium column is "The EU, tech trustbusting and trade-wars": doctorow.medium.com/the-eu-tech-tr…)

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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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