Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Cyberpunk conference call for papers; Lockdown CO2 and structural roots of the climate emergency; The Making of Prince of Persia; and more!
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Inside: Cyberpunk conference call for papers; Lockdown CO2 and structural roots of the climate emergency; The Making of Prince of Persia; and more!
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Cyberpunk conference call for papers: Inescapable cyberpunk futures bleeding into the interstices of our present.
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Lockdown CO2 and structural roots of the climate emergency: You can't personally recycle your way out of climate change.
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The Making of Prince of Persia: A halcyon moment of forgiving slack in the tech industry.
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#15yrsago Boy Scout badge in Intellectual Property web.archive.org/web/2005060308…
#15yrsago Brazil rejects Bush's faith-based AIDS money theguardian.com/world/2005/may…
#10yrsago Skin-tone-matched hospital gowns make it easy to spot color-shifts eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…
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#15yrsago Brazil rejects Bush's faith-based AIDS money theguardian.com/world/2005/may…
#10yrsago Skin-tone-matched hospital gowns make it easy to spot color-shifts eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…
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#10yrsago Terry Pratchett: Doctor Who isn't science fiction web.archive.org/web/2010050607…
#1yrago "Smart" doorlocks have policies that let landlords and third parties spy on you onezero.medium.com/americas-favor…
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#1yrago "Smart" doorlocks have policies that let landlords and third parties spy on you onezero.medium.com/americas-favor…
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#1yrago Fentanyl execs found guilty of racketeering, face 20 year prison sentences cnn.com/2019/05/02/hea…
#1yrago Chinese urbanization has left 25 million vacant homes in rural villages sixthtone.com/ht_news/100392…
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#1yrago Chinese urbanization has left 25 million vacant homes in rural villages sixthtone.com/ht_news/100392…
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#1yrago In 2008 "synthetic CDOs" destroyed the global economy, and now they're back ft.com/content/9c33ce…
#1yrago Strange codes from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/2…
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#1yrago Strange codes from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/2…
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Yesterday's threads: My talk at Republica online; Prisons, meatpacking plants, nursing homes; How "contact tracing" apps could be worse than useless; Ticketmaster gets $500m from Mohammad bin Salman; KSR on "our rewritten imagination"; and more!
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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.
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