Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Improving the ACCESS Act; Juul's junk science; Peloton bricks its treadmills; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vap…
#Pluralistic
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This Saturday, I'm appearing on a panel at the #LocusAwards for @locusmag. @WTalabi, @UnlikelyWorlds, @karenthology and I will discourse on "Future Tech: Working the Science into Your Fiction" at 13h Pacific.
locusmag.com/2021-locus-awa…
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Improving the ACCESS Act: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better.
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Juul's junk science: Reporting bias makes vaping's safety is a hazy mess.
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Peloton bricks its treadmills: Your kids are dead because you didn't buy the subscription.
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#15yrsago Darwin’s tortoise dead at 176 web.archive.org/web/2006070414…
#10yrsago A Brief History of the Corporation: understanding what an attention economy is and where it comes from ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-b…
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#10yrsago Why fair use doesn’t work unless you’ve got a huge war-chest for paying lawyers waxy.org/2011/06/kind_o…
#10yrsago University of Michigan to stop worrying about lawsuits, start releasing orphan works web.archive.org/web/2011091501…
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#5yrsago Broken Windows policing is BS www1.nyc.gov/assets/oignypd…
#5yrsago Misconfigured database exposes sensitive data for 154 million US voters dailydot.com/debug/154-mill…
#5yrsago To understand the Trump campaign, study real-estate developer hustle web.archive.org/web/2016102803…
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#5yrsago Writing the Other: intensely practical advice for representing other cultures in fiction memex.craphound.com/2016/06/23/wri…
#1yrago Against AI phrenology pluralistic.net/2020/06/23/cry…
#1yrago A/B Seattle pluralistic.net/2020/06/23/cry…
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#1yrago Privacy in tracing tokens pluralistic.net/2020/06/23/cry…
#1yrago Congress wants to read all your DMs pluralistic.net/2020/06/23/cry…
#1yrago Blueleaks pluralistic.net/2020/06/23/cry…
#1yrago Surveillance electoralism pluralistic.net/2020/06/23/cry…
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Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "Inside the Clock Tower"; 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:
* Future Tech: Working the Science into Your Fiction (Locus Awards), Jun 26, locusmag.com/2021-locus-awa…
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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 @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…
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Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vap…
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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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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: @BenGoldacre (twitter.com/bengoldacre/).
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