Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Deep Reckonings; Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results; How Audible robs indie audiobook creators; Get an extra vote; A hopeful future; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/03/som…

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Deep Reckonings: Using deepfakes to conjure a contrafactual reality in which monsters confront their legacies.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323360033573253120

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Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: The limits of theory-free statistical inference.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323460840947765248

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How Audible robs indie audiobook creators: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323469836941340672

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Get an extra vote: Reminders from friends and family to vote have a bigger effect on turnout than anything campaigns do.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323624833549152256

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A hopeful future: Optimism and pessimism are both fatalism.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323636800854781953

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#15yrsago Felten on Sony’s rootkit-“remover” freedom-to-tinker.com/2005/11/03/son…

#10yrsago Science fiction tells us all laws are local — just like the Web locusmag.com/2010/11/cory-d…">locusmag.com/2010/11/cory-d…

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#5yrsago Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century booktwo.org/notebook/big-d…

#5yrsago Made to Kill: 1960s killer-robot noir detective novel memex.craphound.com/2015/11/03/mad…

#5yrsago Googly-eye-face Hallowe’en costume

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#1yrago Taxpayers spent $10b for Trump’s wall (so far); smugglers are cutting it with $100 saws and $10 blades washingtonpost.com/national/smugg…

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Yesterday's threads: 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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323304712242753537

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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 do we survive Social Engineering? Nov 7, Baycon, baycon.org/baycon-2021-zo…

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

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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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