Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: LaserWriter II; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/29/nor…
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TECHNICALLY I'm on holiday, visiting family overseas, and offline until mid-Nov. HOWEVER, I read an amazing novel on the flight and HAD to post a review. Enjoy! 2/
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:
sowl.co/uqT2G 3/
LaserWriter II: Tamara Shopsin's celebration of the heroic era of the Mac.
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#20yrsago Harpercollins closes to unsolicited manuscripts, citing anthrax risk memex.craphound.com/2001/10/29/som…
#15yrsago No blogging allowed at “consumer generated media” conference gregverdino.typepad.com/greg_verdinos_… 5/
#10yrsago Microsoft buys Skype, attacks reverse engineer with bogus takedown notices and florid language phoronix.com/scan.php?page=…
#10yrsago SOPA in depth: the worst-ever copyright proposal in US legislative history? eff.org/deeplinks/2011… 6/
#10yrsago Justin Bieber: senator who sponsored anti-streaming bill should be “locked up — put away in cuffs” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#5yrsago After North Carolina Republicans banned cities selling internet, a town decided to give it away instead arstechnica.com/information-te… 7/
#1yrago RIAA's war on youtube-dl pluralistic.net/2020/10/28/tru… 8/
Yesterday's threads: The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped; All of science gets a general index; Europe's trustbusters lose the plot; 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 (@KnightFdn), Nov 2-3
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/…
* 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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