Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance; How Peter Thiel gamed the Roth IRA for tax-free billions; New York City's 100 worst landlords; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/26/wax…
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Today, 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 Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance: A long, tall graphic depicting the invisible, ubiquitous city spy-grid.
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How Peter Thiel gamed the Roth IRA for tax-free billions: More from Propublica's Secret IRS Files.
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New York City's 100 worst landlords: Gotta catch 'em all.
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#10yrsago TSA asked 95 year old woman in a wheelchair in terminal stage of leukemia to remove adult diaper for pat-down npr.org/sections/thetw…
#5yrsago The blacker a city is, the more it fines its residents (especially black ones) priceonomics.com/the-fining-of-…
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#5yrsago Australian educational contractor warns of wifi, vaccination danger to “gifted” kids’ “extra neurological connections” theage.com.au/national/victo…
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#5yrsago Beyond “solutionism”: what role can technology play in solving deep social problems ethanzuckerman.com/2016/06/22/the…
#1yrago Splash Mountain to purge Song of the South pluralistic.net/2020/06/26/pol…
#1yrago Talking Job Guarantee with Pavlina Tcherneva pluralistic.net/2020/06/25/can…
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Thursday's threads: The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless; 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 Neil Sharpson's When the Sparrow Falls (Mysterious Galaxy), 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, Consumer Reports:
consumerreports.org/digital-rights…
* Raging Chicken 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/2021/06/26/wax…
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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: Waxy (waxy.org).
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