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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 24, 2021, 19 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/24/pro…

#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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The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless: Kill it with fire.



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#20yrsago Queer kid vs high-school censorware web.archive.org/web/2001080311…

#20yrsago AI has arrived! web.archive.org/web/2001062511…

#15yrsago Disney: We [will|won’t] sue if you put Pooh on a baby’s headstone web.archive.org/web/2006071119…

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#10yrsago Mexican Congress votes to reject ACTA techdirt.com/articles/20110…

#5yrsago The morning after the Brexit vote, Nigel Farage admits money for the NHS was a lie

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#5yrsago How to protect the future web from its founders’ own frailty memex.craphound.com/2016/06/24/how…

#5yrsago More than 30 people burned during Tony Robbins “motivational” firewalk web.archive.org/web/2016062705…

#5yrsago Sanders will vote Hillary nbcnews.com/politics/2016-…

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#5yrsago Google’s version of the W3C’s video DRM has been cracked memex.craphound.com/2016/06/24/goo…

#5yrsago Undercover reporter spent four months as a prison guard in a Louisiana pen run by CCA motherjones.com/politics/2016/…

#1yrago You are wrong about CDA 230 pluralistic.net/2020/06/24/rus…

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Tuesday's threads: Improving the ACCESS Act; Juul's junk science; Peloton bricks its treadmills; 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…

* Launch for @UnshavedMouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks) mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

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Recent appearances:

* Big Tech Fix, Feet to the Fire podcast:
feet2fire.net/e/a-bigtech-re…

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

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

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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/2021/06/24/pro…

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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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