Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The battle for Ring Zero; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/01/30/rin…
#Pluralistic
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The battle for Ring Zero: The esoteric argument I have been having with myself since 2002.
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#20yrsago The guy who stole s-e-x.com says he can't afford a lawyer web.archive.org/web/2002020118…
#20yrsago Wired Wellington, a citywide, publicly owned fiber network web.archive.org/web/2002020713…
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#5yrsago Google quietly makes “optional” web DRM mandatory in Chrome news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135144…
#5yrsago Beyond the Trolley Problem: Three realistic, near-future ethical dilemmas about self-driving cars rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-con…
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#5yrsago “Work ethic”: Minutes from 2011 meeting reveal Federal Reserve bankers making fun of unemployed Americans theintercept.com/2017/01/27/fed…
#1yrago Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/mem…
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#1yrago Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/mem…
#1yrago Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/mem…
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Yesterday's threads: No, payday lenders aren't nice guys; The Right to Repair; 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:
* @boskonenews 59 (Feb 18-20)
boskone.org/program/schedu…
* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical SF, 1950 to 1985 (@CityLightsBooks), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero…
* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com
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Recent appearances:
* The End of Uber (@TheWarOnCars)
thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the…
* Moral Panic (@Drug_Science Podcast)
drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-mor…
* @HappenHerePod
iheart.com/podcast/1119-i…
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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!
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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.
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My latest @Medium column is "A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator"
doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early…
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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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