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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 27, 2021, 17 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: ISP announces 86% slowdown "in line with others"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/27/imm…

#Pluralistic

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ISP announces 86% slowdown "in line with others": Altice wins the race to the bottom.



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#10yrsago Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice alleged to have choked liberal colleague web.archive.org/web/2011070121…

#10yrsago RIP: editor/anthologist Martin Greenberg tor.com/2011/06/27/edi…

#5yrsago Supreme Court strikes down Texas abortion law nbcnews.com/news/us-news/s…

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#5yrsago Snowden publicly condemns Russia’s proposed surveillance law theguardian.com/world/2016/jun…

#5yrsago Shrill: Lindy West’s amazing, laugh-aloud memoir about fatness, abortion, trolls and rape-jokes memex.craphound.com/2016/06/27/shr…

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#1yrago Snowden on tech's Oppenheimers pluralistic.net/2020/06/27/bel…

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Yesterday's threads: 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!



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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:

* 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/2021/06/27/imm…

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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, also ad- and tracker-free, and unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "𖧚". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list

Thanks to @n8chz@queer.party for today's emoji!

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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: Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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