Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Scarfolk on Cumgate; Texas profiteers make bank from NYC's homeless; FCC's willful broadband blindness in a pandemic; Uber is scrapping thousands of Jump bikes; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pan…

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Scarfolk on Cumgate: Government Employee Eye-Test Slide (1970s).

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1265287951270866946

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Texas profiteers make bank from NYC's homeless: Crewfacilities.com LLC is gouging the city while finding hotel beds for homeless people.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1265300983598379008

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FCC's willful broadband blindness in a pandemic: You can't fix broadband if you don't know what's wrong with it.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1265306443965587457

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Uber is scrapping thousands of Jump bikes: Bikes are essential during lockdowns.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1265311576107540481

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White Americans are increasingly opposed to democracy: Turkeys, Christmas, etc.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1265318953955409925

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#15yrsago Spraypaint stencils of great science fiction writers web.archive.org/web/2005052900…

#15yrsago Clearchannel sets up fake anti-Clearchannel pirate radio station web.archive.org/web/2005052811…

#15yrsago DRMed ebooks cost lots, break when you upgrade Acrobat appliedabstractions.com/2005/05/26/why…

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#10yrsago A perfect marvel of vacuous malice boingboing.net/2010/05/26/a-p…

#10yrsago New fiction: "The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening" shareable.net/the-jammie-dod…

#5yrsago Portraits of homeless people using libraries nationalgeographic.com/photography/pr…

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#5yrsago Poverty is a tax on cognition

#5yrsago The Awesome: ass-kicking girl monster-hunter FTW! boingboing.net/2015/05/26/the…

#1yrago Poland has asked the European Court of Justice to overturn the #CopyrightDirective reuters.com/article/us-eu-…

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#1yrago The Chinese company that bought Grindr wasn't supposed to let Chinese engineers access Americans' data -- but it did reuters.com/article/us-usa…

#1yrago These corporations backed the politicians who will murder women by banning legal abortions lifehacker.com/how-to-divest-…

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#1yrago Remembering the pre-Netscape browsers arstechnica.com/information-te…

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Yesterday's threads: Crowdfunding an open access jewelry course; Bahamas Company Registry leaked; Mafia logic and conservative ideology; Podcast: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Part 4; Google's free/open multilingual font; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1264947724090138624

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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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Today's top sources: Jeffry Vagle (twitter.com/jvagle/), Slashdot (slashdot.org), Dan Hill (twitter.com/cityofsound).

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