Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/09/20/the…
#Pluralistic 1/
#NYC! I'm in town this week with "Chokepoint Capitalism," @rgibli's and my latest book! See us Friday at 7PM at @nyuEngelberg!
eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c…
All this week, I'll be at #UnfinishedLive: live.unfinished.com
More cities here:
mailchi.mp/beacon/chokepo… 2/
If you can't make it to a tour-stop and want a signed, personalized copy shipped to your door, our friends at @FolioSf have you covered:
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Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority: The moral majority is neither.
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Hey look at this
* ‘I think I was good, though I could have been better’ (Pratchett) theguardian.com/books/2022/sep…
* Inside Apple’s Secret iPhone 14 Redesign ifixit.com/News/64865/iph…
* CO police bind woman on railroad tracks, let her get hit by a train boingboing.net/2022/09/20/col… 5/
#20yrsago Scientology silences critics at Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine web.archive.org/web/2012110810…
#20yrsago New bill will make analog VCRs and TVs illegal in 2006 digitalconsumer.org/press-release-…
#20yrsago Groucho to Warner Bros: Get Bent web.archive.org/web/2002060403… 6/
#15yrsago My Guardian column on “the information economy” theguardian.com/technology/200…
#15yrsago DRM violates Canadian privacy law cippic.ca/sites/default/…
#15yrsago Private doc does “e-visits” by email or webcam web.archive.org/web/2007092503… 7/
#15yrsago Soviet top-level domain refuses to die web.archive.org/web/2007010100…
#15yrsago London’s panopticon of CCTVs aren’t solving crimes forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php…
#10yrsago Fresco “restorer” wants a royalty from the church techdirt.com/2012/09/19/old… 8/
#5yrsago America’s execs increasingly believe health insurance industry is worse than useless truthout.org/articles/even-…
#5yrsago Trump’s cutback-crazed health secretary loves billing private jets to the US taxpayer politico.com/story/2017/09/… 9/
#5yrsago Quiz: Breitbart headline, or KKK newspaper headline from the 1920s? slate.com/blogs/the_vaul…
#5yrsago 20% of Manchester police systems run Windows XP bbc.com/news/technolog… 10/
Yesterday's threads: How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends; 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… 12/
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… 13/
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/ 14/
Upcoming appearances:
* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), 9/21-23
live.unfinished.com
* Chokepoint Capitalism with @reckless, @NYUEngelberg (NYC) 9/23, 7PM
eventbrite.com/e/chokepoint-c…
* Chokepoint Capitalism, SFPL (San Francisco), 9/25
sfpl.org/events/2022/09… 15/
Upcoming appearances: (cont'd)
* Chokepoint Capitalism, @BookSoup (LA), 9/27
booksoup.com/event/cory-doc…
* Discussing "Adventure Capitalism" with @RayCraib, @SkylightBooks (LA), 9/29
blog.pmpress.org/events/raymond…
* #OnlinePublicSphere2022, 10/3
globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/events/regulat… 16/
Upcoming appearances: (cont'd)
* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org
* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
mailchi.mp/2e2b8a01e992/s… 17/
Recent appearances:
* Billionaires As Policy Failure Factories (@CheeseMacro)
realprogressives.org/podcast_episod…
* Where’s My Privacy? (@myjetpackca)
wheresmyjetpack.ca/2022/09/14/doc…
* Launch for @Motherboard's Terraform antho
vice.com/en/article/3ad… 18/
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… 19/
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