Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The Dems' most secret Congressional committee; Podcasting "Against The Great Forces of History"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/25/peo…
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The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!
us.macmillan.com/books/97812507…
Signed copies:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…
One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:
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The Dems' most secret Congressional committee: The Steering and Policy Committee runs the show and we're not even allowed to know who's on it.
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Podcasting "Against The Great Forces of History": What Ada Palmer’s University of Chicago Papal election LARP can teach us about our own future.
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#10yrsago Scored: pulse-pounding/thought-provoking YA novel about surveillance memex.craphound.com/2011/10/24/sco…
#5yrsago Audit reveals significant vulnerabilities in Truecrypt and its successors opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCr… 5/
#5yrsago RIP, Tom Hayden: Yippie, radical, politician, author bbc.com/news/world-us-…
#5yrsago San Francisco’s 58-story “leaning tower” is sinking fast phys.org/news/2016-10-t… 6/
#5yrsago Tax-funded NZ company sold mass surveillance tech to torturers and GCHQ theintercept.com/2016/10/23/end…
#5yrsago UAE surveillance contractor is recruiting an army of foreign hackers to break into its citizens’ devices theintercept.com/2016/10/24/dar… 7/
#5yrsago RIP Jack Chick, father of the Satanic Panic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Chick
#1yrago RIAA kills youtube-dl pluralistic.net/2020/10/24/120… 8/
Yesterday's threads: Cyber-mercenaries helped Saudis hack an NYT reporter; and more!
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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at @darkdel:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…
One-month, $30 audiobook bundle with all three Little Brother books:
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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… 11/
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/ 12/
Upcoming appearances:
* Lessons from the First Internet Ages (@KnightFndn), Nov 2-3
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* Keynote for @SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
seagl.org/news/2021/06/0…
* Anti-Dystopian Congress (@goetheinstitut), Nov 10-12
goethe.de/ins/sk/de/kul/… 13/
Recent appearances:
* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):
* Making Money (@DIDiscworld)
desertislanddiscworld.com/episodes/6-1-c…
* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress
techpolicy.press/podcast/ 14/
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… 15/
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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. 17/
My latest @Medium column is "The Traitorous Eight and the Battle of Germanium Valley," How California's ban on non-competes saved the tech industry from eugenics.
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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com). 22/
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