Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Podcasting "Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability"; The Sacklers will get to keep billions; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/12/mon…
#Pluralistic
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Tomorrow, July 13, I'm doing a benefit appearance at the Project Abraham Book Club to help raise funds for Yazidi refugees in Canada. We'll be talking about my book RADICALIZED.
d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/truthmustbetol…
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Podcasting "Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability": Corporate rivalries vs public power.
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The Sacklers will get to keep billions: What's a little mass-murder between friends?
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#15yrsago Alanya to Alanya: feminist science fiction adventure memex.craphound.com/2006/07/12/ala…
#20yrsago Muslim cleric okays divorce-over-SMS news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-paci…
#15yrsago Techno remix of Sen. Steven’s “The Internet is Tubes” lunacy web.archive.org/web/2006071501…
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#15yrsago Felten’s paper on the complexities of Network Neutrality web.archive.org/web/2006071909…
#10yrsago 3D printed hairclips inspired by Bruce Sterling’s “Kiosk” myriadwhimsies.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/jov…
#5yrsago To see the future, visit the most remote areas of the GBAO medium.com/studio-d/6-1-g…
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#5yrsago Empirical proof that Terms of Service are “the biggest lie on the Internet” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
#5yrsago Flawed police drug-test kits, railroading prosecutors and racism: the police-stop-to-prison pipeline propublica.org/article/common…
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#5yrsago Negative Swiss 50-year bond yields just shattered the global insecurity barometer slate.com/news-and-polit…
#5yrsago Teen comes out to her family on Disneyland’s Splash Mountain buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha…
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#1yrago Wirecard's vanished COO wanted 15,000 Libyan militiamen pluralistic.net/2020/07/11/pla…
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Yesterday's threads: Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too; 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:
* Project Abraham book club (to benefit Yezidi refugees), July 13,
d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/truthmustbetol…
* Privacy Without Monopoly, @Defcon 29, Aug 7
defcon.org/html/defcon-29…
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Recent appearances:
* Launch for @unshavedmouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks):
crowdcast.io/e/virtual-even…
* The Bitcoin Podcast:
thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-po…
* The Rent's Too Damned High, @MacroCheese:
realprogressives.org/podcast_episod…
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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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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - and upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
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My latest @Medium column is "Are We Having Fun Yet?" part one of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.
doctorow.medium.com/b-are-we-havin…
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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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