Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead;; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pix…
#Pluralistic 1/
I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, an anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:
redteamblues.com 2/
Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead. Pixsy's predators no longer welcome.
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Hey look at this
* The @Frameworkputer 16 is trying to bring back snap-on removable batteries theverge.com/2023/3/30/2361…
* Calling The Rich Out on Their Bluff
* Stop the #RESTRICTAct and Pass Real Privacy Legislation act.eff.org/action/stop-th… 4/
#20yrsago @ABAesq wants “pirate” WiFi regulated craphound.com/Committee_703_…
#20yrsago Email “bullying” favors bosses news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog…
#20yrsago Fiction, interview and review online at #StrangeHorizons web.archive.org/web/2003040212… 5/
#20yrsago @MargaretAtwood: America is selling itself out thenation.com/article/archiv…
#15yrsago Hackers publish thousands of copies of fingerprint of German Minister who promotes fingerprint #biometrics wired.com/2008/03/hacker… 6/
#15yrsago Dangers of a giant national database — article from 1967 was eerily prescient web.archive.org/web/2008040121…
#15yrsago @RudyTheElder’s science fiction webzine Flurb #5 is out web.archive.org/web/2008030503… 7/
#15yrsago #Homeless people disguised as stranded tourists sleep on #Heathrow’s benches content.time.com/time/subscribe…
#15yrsago VCs sitting on giant piles of money that Internet startups don’t need wired.com/2008/03/bz-lon… 8/
#15yrsago Declassified memo authorized US to #torture “#EnemyCombatants” washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
#10yrsago HOWTO turn a dead hard-drive into a cotton candy machine web.archive.org/web/2013040213… 9/
#10yrsago Nevada State Legislature poised to take regulation of @BurningMan away from state and local cops burners.me/2013/03/30/the…
#10yrsago @TSA routinely violates own rules and the law to discriminate against people w/disabilities s.ai/tsa/ 10/
#5yrsago Dutch panic over infiltration of an apostate #Scientology-alike into education and government bbc.com/news/world-eur…
#5yrsago @UnderArmour: hackers stole the data of 150,000,000 #Myfitnesspal users because of course they did reuters.com/article/us-und… 11/
Thursday's threads: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance); and more!
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from @BookSoup:
booksoup.com/book/978080700… 13/
My latest novel 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… 14/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @beaconPressBks et al) 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/ 15/
Upcoming appearances:
* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…
* Red Team Blues at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc… 16/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Red Team Blues at @darkdel (#Burbank), Apr 26
darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…
* @baybookfest (#Berkeley/#BABF2023), 5/6-7
baybookfest.org/session/cory-d… 17/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #OSSummit (#Vancouver), 5/10
events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…
* Red Team Blues at @WordfestTweets (#Calgary), 5/11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor… 18/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…
* Red Team Blues event with @cubicgarden (Manchester), 5/31
waterstones.com/events/in-conv… 19/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste… 20/
Recent appearances:
* Is Copyright Good For Authors? (@TWiT)
* @culturejourno: What is chokepoint capitalism?
theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/chokepoint-c…
* Techtonic with @markhurst | @WFMU
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cor… 21/
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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. 23/
My latest @Medium column is "Silicon Valley Noir: Red Team Blues and the Role of Bitterness in Technothrillers"
doctorow.medium.com/silicon-valley… 24/
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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered). 26/
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