Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2021; Broken Promises; How elite hobbies let billionaires pay no tax; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/req…
#Pluralistic
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I'm heading on a work trip that dovetails into a Xmas holiday and then, in turn, to a hip replacement. I may not put out another Pluralistic edition until Feb (though I might squeak another edition in before then, who can say?). Get vaxed, stay safe and I'll see you in '22!
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All the books I reviewed in 2021: Plus one I published!
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Broken Promises: The Writers Guild of America West makes the case for media un-consolidation.
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How elite hobbies let billionaires pay no tax: More from Propublica's IRS Leaks.
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#10yrsago Yellow Kid Weil: Autobiography of the greatest con man in American history memex.craphound.com/2011/12/08/yel…
#10yrsago Money is the dark matter of American elections: visualizing political donations since Citizens United motherjones.com/politics/2011/…
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#10yrsago ESP proponents claim that ESP skeptics are psychic, and use their powers to suppress ESP chronicle.com/blogs/percolat…
#10yrsago First-hand account of Occupy LA arrest myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-occ…
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#5yrsago Everything is a Remix, including Star Wars, and that’s how I became a writer recreatecoalition.org/new-recreate-p…
#5yrsago In Africa, British spies target allied leaders, executives, and telcoms engineers lemonde.fr/afrique/articl…
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#5yrsago William Gibson on individual privacy, governmental secrecy and the future of history nytimes.com/2016/12/06/opi…
#1yrago Uber pays to get rid of its self-driving cars pluralistic.net/2020/12/08/req…
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#1yrago All the books I reviewed in 2020 pluralistic.net/2020/12/08/req…
#1yrago Ford patents plutocratic lane-changes pluralistic.net/2020/12/08/req…
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Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "Give Me Slack"; A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime"; IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers; 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…
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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:
* @intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20…
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Recent appearances:
* Seize the Means of Computation (@SeaGL)
seagl.org/archive/2021/s…
* Redistribute the Internet (@NGIForward Summit)
vimeo.com/651018259
* NFTs (@UpstreamPodcast)
soundcloud.com/upstreampodcas…
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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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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 "Pandemic of the Unvaccinated":
medium.com/@doctorow/pand…
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.
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