Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads! (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Tensegrity@home; I'm doing a livecast today for Podapalooza; The vernacular signage of the pandemic; Deflationary pandemic; Makers during pandemic; Send Pics; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/04/25/sen…

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Tensegrity@home: Everyday sorcery.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1254052998675750912

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I'm doing a livecast today for Podapalooza: Someone comes to Zoom, someone leaves Zoom.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1254057666277588992

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The vernacular signage of the pandemic: Frankfurt and beyond.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1254062213901373440

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A deflationary pandemic: Money printer go fzzzt.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1254066398634012672

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Makers in a time of pandemic: Redundancy isn't waste, it's resilience.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1254072573748375552

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Send Pics: A cyberheist YA novel about sextortion.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1254075862825099264

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Yesterday's threads: Save Forbidden Planet NYC; Which guillotine is right for you; A labradoodle breeder is in charge of America's vaccines; "Inject disinfectant" vs both sides-ism; US healthcare fails insured people too; Masks work; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1253735196240695296

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On Jul 14, my first picture book comes 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 Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1228033537867014145

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @[e-mail].

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#15yrsago BBC: DRM makes music customers mad news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog…

#15yrsago Architectures of Control: DRM in hardware web.archive.org/web/2005042518…

#15yrsago IP and the Digital Divide michaelgeist.ca/resc/html_bkup…

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#5yrsago Kansas kid corrects anti-drug teacher, cops raid his house web.archive.org/web/2015041518…

#1yrago Telcoms lobbyists oppose ban on throttling firefighters' internet during wildfires arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#1yrago "Black hat" companies sell services to get products featured and upranked on Amazon buzzfeednews.com/article/letici…

#1yrago Mozilla's Internet Health Report: discriminatory AI, surveilling smart cities, ad-tech internethealthreport.org/2019/

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#1yrago Angered by the No-More-AOCs rule, 31 colleges' Young Democrats boycott the DCCC docs.google.com/document/d/1fs…

#1yrago A 40cm-square patch that renders you invisible to person-detecting AIs arxiv.org/abs/1904.08653

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#1yrago Court case clarifies that photographers don't need permission to publish pictures that incidentally capture public works of art techdirt.com/articles/20190…

#1yrago Older Americans are working beyond retirement age at levels not seen since 1962 investmentnews.com/older-american…

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#1yrago Vulnerabilities in GPS fleet-tracking tools let attackers track and immobilize cars en masse vice.com/en_us/article/…

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