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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Happy World Standards Day or not; Progressives demand ban on corporate execs in government; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/18/mid…

#Pluralistic

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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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Happy World Standards Day or not: A multi-gauge muddle to top all multi-gauge muddles.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1317863489700995072

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Progressives demand ban on corporate execs in government: Change we can actually believe in.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1317880749324791813

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#15yrsago Dear ASCAP: May I sing Happy Birthday for my dad’s 75th? web.archive.org/web/2005102400…

#15yrsago 100 oldest .COM names in the registry jottings.com/100-oldest-dot…

#10yrsago Beautiful failed typewriter design: the writing ball malling-hansen.org/the-writing-ba…

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#10yrsago Koja’s UNDER THE POPPY: dark, epic and erotic novel of war and intrigue memex.craphound.com/2010/10/18/koj…

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Yesterday's threads: Beastie Boy mashups; Educator sued for criticising "invigilation" tool; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1317522852535439362

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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: Dozens (tiny.tilde.website/@dozens), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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