Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Grappling with Big Wrestling; Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/01/31/hee…
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Grappling with Big Wrestling: Vince McMahon has a monopoly on violence.
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Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down: Pixsy and the depravity of speculative invoicing.
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#20yrsago How audio CD DRM works web.archive.org/web/2004022910…
#10yrsago Scientists and scholars boycott Elsevier over bad business practices and copyright maximalism thecostofknowledge.com
#10yrsago DRM is to publishing as junk science was to Stalinism publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/co… 4/
#10yrsago Judge: to ask for anonymity in porno copyright troll case, you must enter your name into the public record eff.org/press/releases…
#5yrsago Trump’s favorite voter fraud expert is registered to vote in three states apnews.com/article/donald… 5/
#5yrsago Six Wakes: a locked-room science fiction murder mystery, delightfully confounded by cloning and memory backups memex.craphound.com/2017/01/31/six…
#1yrago Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q pluralistic.net/2021/01/31/rhy… 6/
Yesterday's threads: The battle for Ring Zero; 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… 8/
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:
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* @boskonenews 59 (Feb 18-20)
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* 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
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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… 12/
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… 13/
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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. 15/
My latest @Medium column is "The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties"
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