Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The last days of Myspace; The child labor story hidden by the Great Resignation; and more!
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This coming weekend (Feb 18-20) I'm a (virtual) guest at the @boskonenews sf convention. I'm doing several panels and my first-ever reading from *Red Team Blues,* my forthcoming novel from @TorBooks.
schedule.boskone.org/people/29740 2/
The last days of Myspace: Facebook is following the steep decline playbook.
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The child labor story hidden by the Great Resignation: Bosses want to turn kids into scabs.
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#10yrsago Newspaper claims Vikileaks Twitter account traced back to House of Commons web.archive.org/web/2012022003…
#10yrsago Dan Kaminsky on the RSA key-vulnerability dankaminsky.com/2012/02/17/pri… 5/
#10yrsago WSJ: Google caught circumventing iPhone security, tracking users who opted out of third-party cookies eff.org/deeplinks/2012… 6/
#5yrsago Irish women call for a nationwide strike if they don’t get a referendum on the country’s brutal abortion ban themarysue.com/feminism-aroun…
#5yrsago American airbase personnel sent erroneous “Missile inbound — seek shelter” warning stripes.com/news/incoming-… 7/
#5yrsago City of Paris deploys “anti-refugee boulders” to prevent camping while waiting for space at a humanitarian center lexpress.fr/actualite/soci…
#5yrsago Millions of lead-filled CRTs have been abandoned in warehouses across America vice.com/en/article/z4g… 8/
#5yrsago Hereditary Samsung chieftain arrested for bribing disgraced president’s “Shamanic” cult leader arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#1yrago Reverse centaurs and the failure of AI pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/rev… 9/
Yesterday's threads: The extremely shady "educational integrity" industry; Oh great, there's DRM in printer PAPER now; 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… 11/
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… 12/
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/ 13/
Upcoming appearances:
* @boskonenews 59 (Feb 18-20)
schedule.boskone.org/people/29740
* The Policy Implications of Web3/@StanfordCyber, Feb 22:
cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/policy-…
* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical SF, 1950 to 1985 (@CityLightsBooks), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero… 14/
Recent appearances:
* Bringing Back Luddites (@OhNoPodcast)
ohnopodcast.com/investigations…
* The End of Uber (@TheWarOnCars)
thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the…
* Moral Panic (@Drug_Science Podcast)
drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-mor… 15/
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… 16/
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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. 18/
My latest @Medium column is: "An Open Letter to Pixsy CEO Kain Jones, Who Keeps Sending Me Legal Threats"
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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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Today's top sources: @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 22/
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