Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: Trump's electoral equilibrium; Trump billed the White House $3 per glass of water; Trustbusting Google; Podcasting part 21 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/02/unb…

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Trump's electoral equilibrium: Slugs voting for salt.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323279588345065478

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Trump billed the White House $3 per glass of water: Keeping his campaign promises.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323284278508048385

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Trustbusting Google: My Daily Beast editorial.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323296687276744705

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Podcasting part 21 of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town: "A glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323298317216829442

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#15yrsago Life-size working Operation Game costume jackwilliambell.livejournal.com/86072.html

#10yrsago How I use the Internet when I’m playing with my kid theguardian.com/technology/201…

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#10yrsago Bedtime Story: Supernatural thriller about the dark side of “getting lost in a good book” memex.craphound.com/2010/11/02/bed…

#10yrsago Duelling useless machines: a metaphor for polarized politics

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#10yrsago The Master Switch: Tim “Net Neutrality” Wu explains what’s at stake in the battle for net freedom memex.craphound.com/2010/11/01/the…

#5yrsago America’s a rigged carnival game that rips off the poor to fatten the rich robertreich.org/post/132363519…

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#5yrsago As America’s middle class collapses, no one is buying stuff anymore businessinsider.com/the-disappeari…

#5yrsago Chrome won’t trust Symantec-backed SSL as of Jun 1 unless they account for bogus certs security.googleblog.com/2015/10/sustai…

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#5yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Aurora”: space is bigger than you think memex.craphound.com/2015/11/02/kim…

#1yrago Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File propublica.org/article/the-ir…

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#1yrago Airbnb’s easily gamed reputation system and poor customer service allow scammers to thrive vice.com/en/article/43k…

#1yrago Chicago teachers declare victory after 11-day strike usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

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#1yrago Toronto approves Google’s surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

#1yrago Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science “emotion recognition” rules

https://twitter.com/suelinwong/status/1190194625572569093

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#1yrago My review of Sandworm: an essential guide to the new, reckless world of “cyberwarfare” latimes.com/entertainment-…

#1yrago Blizzard’s corporate president publicly apologizes for bungling players’ Hong Kong protests, never mentions Hong Kong theverge.com/2019/11/1/2094…

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Saturday's threads: The Americans; D2020; Shanghai's walking building; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1322587091587358726

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: darkdel.com/store/p1840/Av…

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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:

* How to Fix the Internet/Reboot 2020, Nov 9, rebootconference.org/day-two

* Cyberterrorists, Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes, and Were-Pomeranians/Texas Book Festival, Nov 12, texasbookfestival.org/events/cyberte…

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Recent appearances:

* Author Stories Podcast


* The Gould Standard:
glenngould.ca/thegouldstanda…

* Attack Surface: A Reckoning
draxfiles.com/2020/10/26/sho…

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My first picture book is 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), Boing Boing (boingboing.net).

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