Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Ant, Uber, and the true nature of money; Scarfolk & Environs; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/got…

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Baycon 2020 - where I was scheduled to be guest of honor - has reconstituted as a series of online panels; mine's this Saturday:

How do we survive Social Engineering?
baycon.org/baycon-2021-zo…

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Ant, Uber, and the true nature of money: Money vs finance.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1324391639628959745

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Scarfolk & Environs: "Road & Leisure Map for Uninvited Tourists."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1324402719558262785

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#10yrsago Zoo City: hard-boiled South African urban fantasy makes murder out of magic memex.craphound.com/2010/11/05/zoo…

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#10yrsago Crutchfield Dermatology of Minneapolis claims copyright in everything you write, forever, to keep you from posting complaints on the net web.archive.org/web/2011091410…

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#10yrsago New Zealand proposes “guilty until proven innocent” copyright law to punish accused infringers arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago Toronto cops who removed their name-tags during the G20 to avoid identification will be docked a day’s pay web.archive.org/web/2010110714…

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#5yrsago Shortly after Murdoch buys National Geographic, he fires its award-winning journalists web.archive.org/web/2015110413…

#5yrsago British government will (unsuccessfully) ban end-to-end encryption theguardian.com/politics/blog/…

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#5yrsago Predatory lenders trick Google into serving ads to desperate, broke searchers theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

#5yrsago Chelsea Manning publishes a 129-page surveillance reform bill from her cell in Leavenworth s3.amazonaws.com/fftf-cms/media…

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#1yrago The inspiring story of how Cloudflare defeated a patent troll and broke the patent-trolling business-model blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-je…

#1yrago When the company that made your prosthetic feet won’t repair them facebook.com/photo.php?fbid…

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#1yrago “Christian” hospital charges its own nurse $900,000 for her premature baby propublica.org/article/how-on…

#1yrago Jeannette Ng was right: John W Campbell was a fascist locusmag.com/2019/11/cory-d…

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#1yrago After decades of corporate theft, Spinal Tap is finally getting paid by Universal variety.com/2019/biz/news/…

#1yrago Lynda Barry’s “Making Comics” is one of the best, most practical books ever written about creativity memex.craphound.com/2019/11/05/lyn…

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Monday's threads: 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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1323641484617216000

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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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