Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
Author/activist/journalist. New book: THE BEZZLE, a thriller about the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve https://t.co/4ZExCQHv6q @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Nov 19, 2021, 16 tweets

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Teamsters transformed; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/19/hof…

#Pluralistic 1/

Teamsters transformed: Militant labor is strong labor.

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#20yrsago Walt Disney World gets wifi web.archive.org/web/2002020509…

#5yrsago The Snoopers Charter is now law in the UK: “extreme surveillance” rules the land theguardian.com/world/2016/nov… 3/

#5yrsago When Mike Pence came to Hamilton, the cast added a special afterword, just for him nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/…

#1yrago Tyson execs bet on covid spread in unsafe plant pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/dis…</a.

#1yrago Disney stiffs writer pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/dis… 4/

Yesterday's threads: This is your Congress on drugs; Harvard is full of rich, white low-achievers; 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… 6/

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… 7/

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/ 8/

Upcoming appearances:

* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego @Comic_Con), Nov 28
eventeny.com/events/comicco…

* @Intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20… 9/

Recent appearances:

* Move Fast and Fix Things (@AaronSwartzDay)


* @BridgeTales:
buzzsprout.com/1795352/9527530

* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):
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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… 11/

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/2021/11/19/hof… 12/

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 Jam To-Day: Liberating Big Tech's hostages on day one"

medium.com/@doctorow/jam-… 13/

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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… 15/

Today's top sources: @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com). 16/

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