Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Pandemic shock doctrine vs internet freedom; What happened in Florida; Prop 22 is a scam; How to spreadsheet; The Ministry of the Future; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/fin…

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Pandemic shock doctrine vs internet freedom: Freedom House's 2020 report is grim reading.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316376792404430848

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What happened in Florida: Surrender, Bush v Gore style.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316389479683219456

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Prop 22 is a scam: Propping up a Ponzi with a Proposition.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316402574229008385

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How to spreadsheet: All the hard-won lessons in one convenient ruleset.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316421451805724677

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The Ministry of the Future: Eliot Peper interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316425800640540672

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Tonight's Attack Surface Lecture: Cross-Medium Sci-Fi with Amber Benson and John Rogers eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctoro…

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

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#10yrsago Webcam spying school settles with students, pays $1.2M in fees and damages eweek.com/security/schoo…

#1yrago Orban humiliated: Hungary’s crypto-fascist Fidesz party suffers string of municipal election defeats theguardian.com/world/2019/oct…

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#1yrago China’s new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home chinalawblog.com/2019/09/chinas…

#1yrago Apple told TV Plus showrunners to avoid plots that might upset Chinese officials buzzfeednews.com/article/alexka…

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#1yrago Podcast: False Flag ia601007.us.archive.org/0/items/Cory_D…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1316089170482266112

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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:

* 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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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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Four Short Links (oreilly.com/feed/four-shor…), Eliot Peper (eliotpeper.com).

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