Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Hong Kong's ghost protest posters; Basic income works; Sign thief turns newspaper thief; Attack Surface in The Observer; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/11/mea…

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Hong Kong's ghost protest posters: "I Can Still Hear You."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315293976488939520

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Basic income works: Some thoughts on whether it should be "universal."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315307942208442368

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Sign thief turns newspaper thief: Hiassenish caper with Iowa characteristics.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315314371560579073

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Attack Surface in The Observer: "This will all be so great if we don't screw it up."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315323468544577536

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#15yrsago 1966 Batmobile as a papercraft replica web.archive.org/web/2005101308…

#10yrsago Rise Again: would you rather be killed by zombies or Blackwater mercs? memex.craphound.com/2010/10/11/ris…

#10yrsago Irish High Court strikes down “3 strikes” copyright rule irishtimes.com/news/music-lab…

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#10yrsago Library of Congress: Copyright is killing sound archiving osnews.com/story/23888/us…

#10yrsago Hitting droplets of nitroglycerin with a hammer in slo-mo

#5yrsago Funny because it’s true: “Tories to build thousands of affordable second homes”

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thedailymash.co.uk/politics/polit…

#1yrago Ikea’s founder was a Nazi, and never stopped praising the Nazi leader he called “Best Brother” lithub.com/on-the-far-rig…

#1yrago Fatboy Slim mashes up Greta Thunberg’s UN speech

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1181950192960131074

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#1yrago ​13 years later, World of Warcraft is STILL telling queer guilds they’re not allowed to advertise their queerness arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/10…

#1yrago Verizon dumps another Oath property for peanuts: RIP, Mapquest searchengineland.com/a-eulogy-for-m…

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#1yrago The world’s “free trade zones”: hives of scum and villainy gfintegrity.org/free-trade-zon…

#1yrago The Sacklers come to Sesame Street as a muppet is revealed to have had an addicted mother thehill.com/blogs/blog-bri…

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Friday's threads: MK-Ultra and the brainwashing grift; Machine Democrats; Mattis Dover's spectacular animations; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1314610584927694848

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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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My next book is ATTACK SURFACE, sequel to Little Brother and Homeland: it's a technothriller about a surveillance techie who goes home and learns the weapons she helped build are used against the racial justice movement founded by her best friend.

read.macmillan.com/promo/attacksu…

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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/

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Upcoming talks:

* The Attack Surface Lectures: 8 nights of bookstore-hosted events in which I and a massive group of entertaining and knowledgeable experts discourse on my latest novel's themes, Oct 13-22 read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-…

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Recent appearances:

* David Pakman: It's Monopolies, Not Surveillance


* 3 Big Ideas to Fix The Internet


* The Internet Is Broken, and ISPs Are to Blame (Gizmodo System Reboot)
gizmodo.com/the-internet-i…

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My first picture book just came 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.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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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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Today's top sources: JWZ (jwz.org/blog/), Slashdot (slashdot.org), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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