Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Attack Surface in Wired; The herd immunity conspiracy; How to cheat at Clock Simulator; Facebook vs The Big Lebowski; Papercraft Haunted Mansion Hallowe'en; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/12/red…

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Attack Surface in Wired: Toolsmith-user solidarity.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315653007233568768

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The herd immunity conspiracy: Follow the money.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315680288601636870

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How to cheat at Clock Simulator: I got rhythm.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315682739052371971

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Someone Comes to Town, part 18: This week's podcast comes with a content warning.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315686251077402630

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Facebook vs The Big Lebowski: The Zuck abides.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315692112814333954

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Papercraft Haunted Mansion Hallowe'en: Print, color, decorate!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315697051133304832

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#15yrsago Vet’s obit: “send acerbic letters to Republicans” legacy.com/obituaries/chi…

#10yrago Canon’s printer/photocopier blocks jobs based on keywords itnews.com.au/news/canon-blo…

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#10yrago Pratchett’s I Shall Wear Midnight, sentimental and fun book about a witch among enemies memex.craphound.com/2010/10/12/pra…

#10yrago Tom Waits and Preservation Hall Jazz Band release limited-edition 78RPM record and matching limited edition record-player pitchfork.com/news/40262-tom…

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#5yrsago theguardian.com/global/2015/oc…

#5yrsago Facebook UK made £105M in 2014, paid £35M in bonuses, and will pay £4,327 in tax theguardian.com/global/2015/oc…

#5yrsago Economics research considered unreplicable federalreserve.gov/econresdata/fe…

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#5yrsago Read: Austin Grossman’s moving text-adventure story “The Fresh Prince of Gamma World” wired.com/2015/10/excerp…

#1yrago AT&T hikes business customers’ bills by up to 7%, charging them to recoup its own property taxes arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#1yrago Google continues to funnel vast sums to notorious climate deniers theguardian.com/environment/20…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315333174780592128

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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:

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

* Milehicon (Guest of Honor!), Oct 23-5, milehicon.org

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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: Hackaday (hackaday.com), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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