Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition; End of the line for Reaganomics; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/pos…
#Pluralistic
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I'm a guest of honor and keynote speaker at Salt Lake City's Quills Conference on writing, Aug 12-15:
quillsconference.com
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Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition: "Whose Streets? Our Streets! (Tech Edition)."
hhttps://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1426195851056058370
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End of the line for Reaganomics: The OG antitrust is back, baby!
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#20yrsago "State-of-the-industry" letter from the year 2021 web.archive.org/web/2001082201…
#20yrsago Our faulty intuition about open systems ft.com/content/641671…
#15yrsago NBC: Hair-gel terrorists posed no risk last week web.archive.org/web/2006081319…
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#15yrsago Defending against the last plot won’t save us from the next one schneier.com/blog/archives/…
#15yrsago RIAA to grieving family: We depose your children in 60 days recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2006/08/riaa-w…
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#10yrsago AT&T merger leak: it’s all about raising prices and reducing competition dslreports.com/shownews/Leake…
#10yrsago Doctor tried to "cure" homosexuality by tasping gay man while he had sex with female sex worker web.archive.org/web/2011100408…
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#10yrsago My panel with Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and Al Gore at Mexico City’s Campus Party
#10yrsago 1968: when Britain’s Daily Mirror tried to overthrow Parliament bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurt…
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#10yrsago Stasi spywear: the inept art of commie disguise web.archive.org/web/2011080210…
#5yrsago How removing headphone jacks opens the door to DRM (and how to close the door) fastcompany.com/3062741/the-ip…
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#5yrsago Cash grants to people with unexpected bills successfully prevents homelessness science.sciencemag.org/content/353/63…
#5yrsago Forget Skynet: AI is already making things terrible for people who aren’t rich white dudes nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opi…
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#1yrago Trump's Solicitor General says bribery is legal pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/fai…
#1yrago Payday lenders are CFPB's pandemic aid pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/fai…
#1yrago Sorting machines snatched from post offices pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/fai…
#1yrago Failed State pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/fai…
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#1yrago Mexico's terrible copyright is in trouble pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/fai…
#1yrsago Florida sheriff bans masks pluralistic.net/2020/08/13/bet…
#1yrago My origin story pluralistic.net/2020/08/13/bet…
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Wednesday's threads: Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas; IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill; 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 @Ben_Rosenbaum's The Unraveling, Aug 23 (@Booksoup)
booksoup.com/event/benjamin…
* From Wayback to Way Forward: The @InternetArchive turns 25, Oct 21
eventbrite.com/e/from-wayback…
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Recent appearances:
* Privacy Without Monopoly (@Defcon)
* Building the Digital Commons (@moneyontheleft)
moneyontheleft.org/2021/08/01/bui…
* Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset…
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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!
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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 "Expectations management," part five of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.
doctorow.medium.com/expectations-m…
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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: Bruce Schneier (schneier.com).
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