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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: "War Against All Puerto Ricans"; Dashcam repo; and more!

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This Saturday (July 30) at 3PM, I will be reading and signing my picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" at the @DarkDel booth at @MidsummerScream in #LongBeach, CA:

midsummerscream.org 2/

Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "The Bezzle" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

clarionwriteathon.com/members/profil… 3/

"War Against All Puerto Ricans": Required reading for the eve of a new independence referendum.

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Dashcam repo: Cruising the streets with a license plate camera to win debt-collector bounties.

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#5yrsago “Intellectual property rights” are why UK government won’t say which housing failed fire safety test bbc.com/news/uk-407490…

#5yrsago Wells Fargo also defrauded 800,000 car loan customers and stole 25,000 cars nytimes.com/2017/07/27/bus… 6/

Yesterday's threads: "A Half-Built Garden"; 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:
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:

* @MidsummerScream (Long Beach), Jul 30
midsummerscream.org

* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
defcon.org/html/defcon-30… 11/

Recent appearances:

* Bricking Tractors (Inside Agri-Turf)
inside-agriturf.captivate.fm/episode/bricki…

* Blockchain, Bitcoin & Selling The Brooklyn Bridge (@MMTPodcast):
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/135-cory-docto… 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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My latest @Medium column is "Dare to Know: What if knowing the exact date of your death was a luxury good?"

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Today's top sources: Roger Moore. 19/