Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: The sex industry isn't technophilic; Schroedinger's streaming service just died; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/06/21/ear…
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Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.
clarionwriteathon.com/members/profil… 2/
The sex industry isn't technophilic: Why sex workers are the first in - and first out - of new technologies.
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Schroedinger's streaming service just died: When is a "sale" a "license?"
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Hey look at this
* @Bobosphere's final broadcast bullypulpit.substack.com/p/off-the-air#…
* Platformer Toolkit, an interactive essay gmtk.itch.io/platformer-too… (h/t @waxy)
* The Hatbox Ghost that Never Was …gforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-ha… 5/
#20yrsago #Perl is Internet #Yiddish web.archive.org/web/2002062116…
#20yrsago The invention of #Warchalking web.archive.org/web/2002102004…
#20yrsago Punk sounds for babies punkrockbaby.com
#15yrsago Email gets fourth amendment protection again web.archive.org/web/2007081301… 6/
#15yrsago #GoldFarming makes the NYT nytimes.com/2007/06/17/mag…
#15yrsago Fix the FCC or die web.archive.org/web/2007070320…
#15yrsago North American Broadcasters Association knifes NPR and PBS at the United Nations anti-podcasting treaty negotiation web.archive.org/web/2007062603… 7/
#10yrsago DMZ is finished: @brianwood nailed the ending memex.craphound.com/2012/06/21/dmz…
#10yrsago G4S boss predicts mass privatisation of UK police forces theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/20…
#10yrsago @paolobacigalupi: cyberpunk saved sf web.archive.org/web/2014122512… 8/
#10yrsago Drugs Without the Hot Air: the most sensible book about drugs you’ll read this year memex.craphound.com/2012/06/20/dru…
#10yrsago Fanfic inspired by the apocalyptic state of a ten-year-old Civilization II game reddit.com/r/gaming/comme… 9/
#10yrsago How stupid is Charles Carreon’s lawsuit against The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation? Really, really stupid popehat.com/2012/06/19/the… 10/
#10yrsago Oatmeal to Charles Carreon: calm down before you get yourself into trouble theoatmeal.com/blog/carreon
#10yrsago @aaronsw reviews Twilight of the Elites, an indictment of meritocracy crookedtimber.org/2012/06/18/gue… 11/
#10yrsago Young man with autism sees off the Snow White ride at Walt Disney World shmoolok.com/Blog/Post/339/… 12/
#10yrsago FunnyJunk’s lawyer sues American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federationhttps://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/
#10yrsago Falsehoods programmers believe about time infiniteundo.com/post/253269996… 13/
#5yrsago A right-wing Dem Senator who voted to sell weapons to Saudi is being primaried by an environmental activist theintercept.com/2017/06/19/joe…
#5yrsago New media noncompetes are destroying the careers of young journalists cjr.org/business_of_ne… 14/
#5yrsago Every year, @Starbucks sends 4 billion nonrecyclable paper cups to landfills treehugger.com/starbucks-cups…
#5yrsago Truck-driving is a modern form of indentured slavery usatoday.com/pages/interact…
#5yrsago Canon #Jesus was way better than fandom Jesus web.archive.org/web/2017042307… 15/
#5yrsago Israeli company’s spyware used to target corruption-fighting journalists and lawyers in Mexico citizenlab.ca/2017/06/reckle…
#5yrsago @sxsw condemns Texas’s state-level law banning “sanctuary cities” like Austin rollingstone.com/music/music-ne… 16/
#5yrsago My Favorite Thing is Monsters: a haunting diary of a young girl as a dazzling graphic novel memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/my-…
#5yrsago The Big Bad Fox: hilarious tale of predators, parenting, and poultry memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/the… 17/
#1yrago How to cheat on your taxes: The rich are different from you and me pluralistic.net/2021/06/20/la-…
#1yrago The doctrine of dynastic wealth: @abigaildisney on tax evasion and the American caste system pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 18/
#1yrago The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups" pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 19/
Friday's threads: Facebook's right, Apple is too powerful; 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… 21/
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… 22/
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/ 23/
Recent appearances:
* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669
* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event…
* Privacy is the New Celebrity
buzzsprout.com/1806101/106430… 25/
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… 26/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.
My latest column is "Reasonable Agreements: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts"
doctorow.medium.com/reasonable-agr… 27/
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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… 29/
Today's top sources: @slashdot (slashdot.org), @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 30/
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