Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The Mafia hires good accountants; and more!
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The Mafia hires good accountants: Honest cheaters enable the mob.
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#15yrsago Schoolkids “passing notes” by commenting on random blog-posts web.archive.org/web/2007020304…
#15yrsago 9/11 Commission Report hobbled by #DRM web.archive.org/web/2007020401… 3/
#10yrsago Too Big to Know: @dweinberger explains how knowledge works in the Internet age memex.craphound.com/2012/02/01/too…
#10yrsago @WSJ publishes actual climate scientists’ letter on climate science wsj.com/articles/SB100… 4/
#10yrsago US trade rep and hotel caught lying about confidentiality of secret #ACTA meeting in Hollywood techdirt.com/articles/20120…
#5yrsago Sean Spicer defends handcuffing a 5-year-old American boy for hours at an airport immigration checkpoint independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… 5/
#5yrsago Trump’s war on science, a chronology (Week 1) scienceblogs.com/confessions/20…
#5yrsago Suspecting arson, cops subpoena homeowner’s pacemaker logs, then charge him with multiple felonies csoonline.com/article/316274… 6/
#5yrsago Federal judge orders emergency injunction and restraining order ending Trump’s #muslimban arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#1yrago Unidirectional entryism pluralistic.net/2021/02/01/din…
#1yrago The good news about vaccination bad news pluralistic.net/2021/02/01/din… 7/
Yesterday's threads: Grappling with Big Wrestling; Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down; 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:
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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:
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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
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* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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Recent appearances:
* The End of Uber (@TheWarOnCars)
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* Moral Panic (@Drug_Science Podcast)
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* @HappenHerePod
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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.
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