Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Podcasting "We Should Not Endure a King"; and more!
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Podcasting "We Should Not Endure a King": Antitrust is a leftist cause.
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#20yrsago Bloxsom, a lightweight blogging tool in 20 lines of perl web.archive.org/web/2002030602…
#20yrsago Slashdot offers paid subscriptions
#20yrsago Bruce Sterling explains why SXSW is still relevant austinchronicle.com/screens/2002-0… 3/
#15yrsago Sony to Kotaku: You’re blackballed! web.archive.org/web/2007030306…
#10yrsago Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion: a surveillance and bioscience dystopia with the best of intentions memex.craphound.com/2012/03/01/ken… 4/
#10yrsago In Minecraft, a fountain of cats at the top of the world
#5yrsago US border guards can’t believe Nigerian man is a software engineer, google “questions to ask a software engineer” and give him a pop quiz bleepingcomputer.com/news/governmen… 5/
#5yrsago Trump tells America’s attorneys general that Jews might be desecrating their own cemeteries to make him look bad inquirer.com/philly/news/po…
#5yrsago 70% of the benefits of Trump’s childcare credits will go to households earning $100K and up taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/… 6/
Yesterday's threads: Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't; 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:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 9/
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/ 10/
Upcoming appearances:
* Seize the Means of Computation, Konline Poland, Mar 4
konline.ava.waw.pl/konline
* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com 11/
Recent appearances:
* The Policy Implications of Web3 (@StanfordCyber)
* Big Tech & Surveillance Capitalism (@shaunattwood):
* Bringing Back Luddites (@OhNoPodcast)
ohnopodcast.com/investigations… 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: "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local: A Chance for Individuals to Make a Difference"
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