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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Facebook's alternative facts; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/15/thr…

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Facebook's alternative facts: If you don't like your transparency portal's data, shut it down.



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#20yrsago UK lobbyists want "respecting copyright" curriculum in schools web.archive.org/web/2001071813…

#20yrsago Gary Larson on online comics sharing web.archive.org/web/2001061008…

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#5yrsago UK PM Theresa May nukes climate change department, appoints a climate denier as Climate Secretary independent.co.uk/climate-change…

#5yrsago To hell with the Trolley Problem: here’s a much more interesting list of self-driving car weirdnesses medium.com/hidden-in-plai…

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#5yrsago Why do Pokemon avoid Black neighborhoods? bnd.com/news/nation-wo…

#5yrsago For 90 years, lightbulbs were designed to burn out. Now that’s coming to LED bulbs newyorker.com/business/curre…

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#5yrsago San Francisco’s bike lanes have become Uber’s pickup/dropoff zones (and the cops don’t care) sf.streetsblog.org/2016/07/13/col…

#1yrago Poesy slays pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

#1yrago PE's three kids in a trenchcoat fraud pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

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#1yrago Biden's $2T climate plan pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

#1yrago McKinsey waxes fat off coronavirus failures pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

#1yrago Homeschool to prison pipeline pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

#1yrago Spain has been an NSO customer since 2015 pluralistic.net/2020/07/15/3-f…

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Yesterday's threads: Facebook employees stalk users; 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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Privacy Without Monopoly, @Defcon 29, Aug 7
defcon.org/html/defcon-29…

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Recent appearances:

Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset…

* Trustbusting (@NicoleSandler)


* Launch for @UnshavedMouse's When the Sparrow Falls (@MystGalaxyBooks):
crowdcast.io/e/virtual-even…

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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 - as well as previews of 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 @[e-mail].

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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