Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Attack Surface is out!; SF as intuition pump; Beyond Cyberpunk; Half-Life's G-Man performs "Once in a Lifetime"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/13/hop…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight's Attack Surface Lecture: Politics & Protest, with @evacide and @RonDeibert, hosted by @strandbookstore, 5PM Pacific/8PM Eastern strandbooks.com/events/event93…

Full schedule: read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-…

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Attack Surface is out!: It's my book-birthday!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316056253907365888

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SF as intuition pump: Optimistic disaster stories for the future!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316069276319584256

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Beyond Cyberpunk: What it means to write technorealistic, post-cyberpunk literature.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316078870290788353

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Half-Life's G-Man performs "Once in a Lifetime": Where does this machinima go to?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316081801471750145

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#10yrsago HOWTO Make jello blood-worms theidearoom.net/jell-o-blood-w…

#10yrsago Kevin Kelly’s WHAT TECHNOLOGY WANTS: how technology changes us and vice-versa memex.craphound.com/2010/10/13/kev…

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#5yrsago CIA black-site torture survivors sue shrinks who made $85M overseeing CIA torture program theintercept.com/2015/10/13/for…

#5yrsago Police end round-the-clock Assange detail at London’s Ecuadorian embassy ibtimes.co.uk/police-stop-24…

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#5yrsago How to make “Dracula’s dentures” cookie sandwiches the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/draculas-dentu…

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Yesterday's threads: Attack Surface in Wired; The herd immunity conspiracy; How to cheat at Clock Simulator; Someone Comes to Town, part 18; Facebook vs The Big Lebowski; Papercraft Haunted Mansion Hallowe'en; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1315704821098319872

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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 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:

* Cross-Medium Sci-Fi with Amber Benson and John Rogers, Oct 14 eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctoro…

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

* Coding Democracy/Toronto International Festival of Authors, Oct 24 festivalofauthors.ca/event/maureen-…

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Recent appearances:

* Savage Lovecast
savagelovecast.com/episodes/729

* Trashfuture: Stolen Likes Acknowledgment
trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/give-me-one-…

* David Pakman: It's Monopolies, Not Surveillance


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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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Today's top sources: Boing Boing (boingboing.net).

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