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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Turning plastics into carbon nanotubes; Kids reason, adults rationalize; Someone Comes to Town Part 19; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/19/nan…

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

Full schedule: attacksurface.com

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Turning plastics into carbon nanotubes: Promising new research!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1318166818867957762

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Kids reason, adults rationalize: Thoughts on YA literature and books for adults.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1318204854129422336

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Someone Comes to Town Part 19: This week on the podcast.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1318208641707618307

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#15yrsago Fox shuts down Buffy Hallowe’en musical despite Whedon’s protests web.archive.org/web/2005100107…

#10yrsago English Heritage claims it owns every image of Stonehenge, ever blog.fotolibra.com/2010/10/19/sto…

#10yrsago HOWTO make edible Hallowe’en eyeballs web.archive.org/web/2010100604…

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#10yrago HOWTO Make Mummy Meatloaf web.archive.org/web/2010102223…

#10yrsago HOWTO make a prop jetpack out of soda bottles instructables.com/Rocketeer-Rock…

#5yrsago White supremacists call for Star Wars boycott because imaginary brown people themarysue.com/boycott-star-w…

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#5yrsago Some suggestions for sad, rich people whatever.scalzi.com/2015/10/18/the…

#5yrsago Survivor-count for the Chicago PD’s black-site/torture camp climbs to 7,000+ theguardian.com/us-news/2015/o…

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#5yrsago In upsidedownland, Verizon upheld its fiber broadband promises to 14 cities techdirt.com/articles/20151…

#1yrago AOC to endorse Sanders today washingtonpost.com/politics/how-b…

#1yrago Catalan independence movement declares a general strike in Barcelona bbc.com/news/world-eur…

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Yesterday's threads: Happy World Standards Day or not; Progressives demand ban on corporate execs in government; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1317884462378545152

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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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