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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Beastie Boy mashups; Educator sued for criticising "invigilation" tool; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/17/pro…

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Monday's Attack Surface Lecture: Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk with Bruce Sterling and Christopher Brown eventcombo.com/e/Virtual-even…

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

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Beastie Boy mashups: Beastles, Beachtie Boys, Ghostbeasties.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1317502914127044608

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Educator sued for criticising "invigilation" tool: Proctorio has permanently disqualified itself from being entrusted with learners' educations.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1317516616045793282

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#10yrsago G20 Toronto cop who was afraid of girl blowing soap bubbles sues YouTube for “ridicule”

#10yrsago Furniture made from rusted Soviet naval mines marinemine.com

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#5yrsago 23andme & Ancestry.com aggregated the world’s DNA; the police obliged them by asking for it splinternews.com/cops-are-askin…

#1yrago Pacifica Radio ignores injunction, continues to play canned content on NYC’s WBAI brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/…

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#1yrago 6 years after expose revealed docs taking millions from pharma companies, it’s only getting worse propublica.org/article/we-fou…

#1yrago Leaks reveal how creepy, cultish monopolist Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS to kill free tax-filing propublica.org/article/inside…

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#1yrago Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology eff.org/deeplinks/2019…

#1yrago Yahoo Groups is being prepared for shutdown, with all stored archives to be deleted on Dec 14 help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN31010.ht…

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#1yrago Cable is bullshit, and so is 5G: give me fiber or give me death! eff.org/deeplinks/2019…

#1yrago The first book collecting the new Nancy comic is incredibly, fantastically, impossibly great memex.craphound.com/2019/10/17/the…

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Yesterday's threads: Ferris wheel offices; UK to tax Amazon's victims; Amazon returns end up in landfills; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1317185543101272068

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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:

* SRSLY WRONG: Stop Techno Dystopia!
srslywrong.com/podcast/220-st…

* Judge John Hodgman: "The Doctorow Doctrine"
maximumfun.org/episodes/judge…

* Savage Lovecast
savagelovecast.com/episodes/729

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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: Fipi Lele, Ian Linkletter.

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