Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Comedic obituary poetry; Tom Lehrer in the public domain; Trustbusting is stimulus; Falsehoods programmers believe about time; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/eac…

#Pluralistic

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Today's Attack Surface Lecture: Little Revolutions with @TochiTrueStory and @BCMorrow.

skylightbooks.com/event/live-cro…

Full schedule: attacksurface.com

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Comedic obituary poetry: Out of the Hurly-Burly.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1318656733309399041

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Tom Lehrer in the public domain: 96 songs' lyrics, up for grabs.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1318661277326012416

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Trustbusting is stimulus: Piss on trickle-down.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1318909261393526787

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Falsehoods programmers believe about time: All discrete phenomena are continuous.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1318934638811705350

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#15yrsago Ham operator corrects Morse code on the Disneyland Railroad web.archive.org/web/2005090515…

#10yrsago Tentacle pot pie! notmartha.org/archives/2010/…

#10yrsago Terrified feds try to bar Bunnie Huang from testifying at Xbox jailbreaking trial wired.com/2010/10/xbox-m…

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#10yrsago Derren Brown’s Confessions of a Conjuror: funny memoir is also a meditation on attention, theatrics and psychology memex.craphound.com/2010/10/21/der…

#5yrsago Hungarian camerawoman who tripped refugee announces she will sue that refugee techdirt.com/articles/20151…

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#5yrsago UK “anti-radicalisation” law can take kids from thoughtcriming parents in secret trials techdirt.com/articles/20151…

#5yrsago How a mathematician teaches “Little Brother” to a first-year seminar derekbruff.org/?p=3143

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#1yrago Griefer terrorizes baby by taking over their Nest babycam…again siliconvalley.com/2019/10/18/the…

#1yrago Haunted Mansion/Ikea mashup tee teepublic.com/t-shirt/419689…

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#1yrago Rep Katie Porter: an Elizabeth Warren protege and single mom who destroys bumbling, mediocre rich guys in Congressional hearings newrepublic.com/article/155268…

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Yesterday's threads: Feds gouge states, subsidize corporations; Cadillac perfects the murdermobile; Solar's "miracle material"; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1318578028746661888

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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 appearances:

* Milehicon (Guest of Honor!), Oct 23-5, <a href="milehicon.org">milehicon.org</a>

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

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Recent appearances:

* TWiT: The J to J Protocol
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…

* Writing Excuses: Researching the FCK out of Things
writingexcuses.com/2020/10/11/15-…

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

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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: Dan Howland (twitter.com/ridetheory/), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Four Short Links (oreilly.com/feed/four-shor…).

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