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Author/activist/journalist. New novel: THE BEZZLE, a thriller of hi-tech fraud and the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve https://t.co/4ZExCQHv6q @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Jul 8, 2021, 23 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Indonesia's gig work tech resistance; Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuy…

#Pluralistic

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This Saturday, July 10, I'm helping @unshavedmouse launch his debut novel,"When the Sparrow Falls" at an event with @MystGalaxyBooks:
mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

My review:
pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/bas…

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Indonesia's gig work tech resistance: Tuyul apps and the IT of the Road.



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Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card: Here's what to do about it.



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#15yrsago Ben Rosenbaum’s “Ant King” story under CC license benjaminrosenbaum.com/stories/the.an…

#15yrsago Song inspired by Ted Stevens’ “Internet is a series of tubes” myspace.com/tedstevensfanc…

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#10yrsago Half of US social program recipients believe they “have not used a government social program” cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#10yrsago Creative License: how the hell did sampling get so screwed up and what the hell do we do about it? memex.craphound.com/2011/07/08/cre…

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#5yrsago Tiffin: a boardgame based on Mumbai’s miraculous lunch-delivery network memex.craphound.com/2016/07/08/tif…

#5yrsago William Gibson’s Archangel: intricate military sf, mercilessly optimized for comics memex.craphound.com/2016/07/08/wil…

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#5yrsago One line in a federal law from 1866 makes it basically impossible to prosecute killer cops theintercept.com/2016/07/07/one…

#5yrsago Why did some of the richest, most powerful people in the UK support Brexit? jacobinmag.com/2016/07/brexit…

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#5yrsago Tenant farmers: how “smart” agricultural equipment siphons off farmers’ crop and soil data techcrunch.com/2016/07/06/the…

#5yrsago As browsers decline in relevance, they’re becoming DRM timebombs thetech.com/2016/07/06/ele…

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#5yrsago NYC’s sloppy records gave $59.2M in tax breaks to dead people observer.com/2016/07/city-g…

#1yrago The awful stupidity of measuring engineers' productivity pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/abs…

#1yrago The rotten culture of the rich pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/abs…

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#1yrago EY helped 'Ndrangheta sell mafia bonds pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/abs…

#1yrago Hank Green's "A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor" pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/abs…

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Yesterday's threads: Technological self-determination; Biden delivers Right to Repair via executive order; Comic book store files comic-book lawsuit; 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), Jul 10, mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

* Project Abraham book club (to benefit Yezidi refugees):
d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/truthmustbetol…

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Recent appearances:

* The Bitcoin Podcast:
thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-po…

* The Rent's Too Damned High, @MacroCheese:
realprogressives.org/podcast_episod…

* 3D Printing Sci-Fi, 3DPOD:
3dprint.com/282547/3dpod-e…

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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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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/2021/07/08/tuy…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - and upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest Medium column is "Self Publishing," about the consolidation in publishing and what to do about it

doctorow.medium.com/self-publishin…

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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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Today's top sources: @MattKatz (twitter.com/MattKatz).

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