Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Little Revolutions; Russian Cyberpunk Farm; We're already (badly) forgiving student debt; Facebook bullies watchdog; Google's monopoly rigged the ad market; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/20/sov…

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Little Revolutions: Bethany C Morrow and Tochi Onyebuchi on the Attack Surface Lectures.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329801645434097664

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Russian Cyberpunk Farm: Superb comedy-dystopia in a russo-futuristic vein.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329843102811525120

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We're already (badly) forgiving student debt: Debts that can't be paid won't be paid.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329869100508581888

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Facebook bullies watchdog: My Wired op-ed on the Ad Observer scandal.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329873620353515520

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Google's monopoly rigged the ad market: Dina Srinivasan is on fire.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329891714681618433

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#5yrsago The secret history of the Haunted Mansion’s hall of changing paintings …gforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-ch…

#5yrsago England: You have four days to reply to the secret consultation on the NHS’s future theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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#5yrsago Syria secretly sentenced free software developer Bassel Khartabil to death eff.org/offline/bassel…

#1yrago Twitter censures UK Tory Party for changing its blue-check account name to “FactCheckUK” during the prime ministerial debates cnn.com/2019/11/19/wor…

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#1yrago DoJ to scrap the Paramount antitrust rule that prohibits movie studios from buying or strong-arming movie theaters reuters.com/article/us-usa…

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#1yrago In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide “free” crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks appalachianprisonbookproject.org/2019/11/20/how…

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Yesterday's threads: Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk; Disney stiffs writer; Tyson execs bet on covid spread in unsafe plant; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329513091336269826

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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:

* Keynote, Cybersummit 2020, Nov 26 cybera.ca/cyber-summit-2…

* Keynote, Cologne Futures, Nov 27 medienpolitik.eu

* Beaverbrook Lecture: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, Nov 30, mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/…

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Recent appearances:

* Talkingheadz Podcast:
talkingpointz.com/talkingheadz-w…

* Can Web 3 Help Democracy?


* Fully Charged: The future of energy over the next 300 years
fullycharged.show/podcasts/podca…

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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: Matt Stoller (twitter.com/matthewstoller…), Brian Milnes, Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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