Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The Attack Surface paperback is out; Dave Eggers' "The Every"; Open Access Ninja; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/05/mas…
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The Attack Surface paperback is out: And a once-in-a-lifetime deal on the Little Brother audiobooks.
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Dave Eggers' "The Every": A tragicomic look at Big Tech, following from "The Circle."
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Open Access Ninja: "The Brew of Law."
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#5yrsago Left-wing activists across the former USSR launch “September,” to rally opposition to far-right movements globalvoices.org/2016/10/05/sep…
#5yrsago Canadian government has turned “consultation” on warrantless mass surveillance into a sales-job vice.com/en/article/kb7…
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#1yrago Facebook's living will pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/flo…
#1yrago Ad-tech is a bubble pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/flo…
#1yrago The Internet is for End-Users pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/flo…
#1yrago Squeeze Me pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/flo…
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Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "Take It Back"; Savage Love A-Z; The Pandora Papers; USPS pilots postal banking; 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:
* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress, Oct 7
zoom.us/webinar/regist…
* From Wayback to Way Forward: The @InternetArchive turns 25, Oct 21
eventbrite.com/e/from-wayback…
* Keynote for @SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
seagl.org/news/2021/06/0…
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Recent appearances:
* Community & Technology
* Infosec Apocaylpse (We're In podcast)
were-in.simplecast.com/episodes/cory-…
* @WalledCulture
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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/2021/10/05/mas…
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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 "Hope, not optimism," a rule-of-thumb-based theory of change.
medium.com/@doctorow/hope…
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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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