Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Student debt trap; Postmortem of the NYPD's murder of a Black man; Section 230 is Good, Actually; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kaw…

#Pluralistic

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My 2017 novel Walkaway is a $2.99 DRM-free ebook at US retailers today.

@GreatDismal called it "A wonderful novel."

Edward @Snowden said it "Walkaway reminds us that the world we choose to build is the one we’ll inhabit."

us.macmillan.com/books/97807653…

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Student debt trap: Borrowed: $79,000. Paid: $190,000. Now Owes? $236,000.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1334866226447745025

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Postmortem of the NYPD's murder of a Black man: How to write about individual stories of a structural crisis.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1334873608716312576

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Section 230 is Good, Actually: It's not a "corporate giveaway," it's how you got the parts of the internet that you actually like.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1334927698179674112

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#5yrsago Fossil fuel divestment sit-in at MIT President’s office hits 10,000,000,000-hour mark

https://twitter.com/FossilFreeMIT/status/672526210581274624

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#1yrago Opendemocracy: the Libdems tried to censor our article about their sale of voter data, then used a forged email to intimidate us opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…

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#1yrago Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from “What should algorithms do?” to “Should we use an algorithm?” memex.craphound.com/2019/12/04/sec…

#1yrago The south’s latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed southernfoodways.org/gravy/are-pris…

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#1yrago FCC Chairman Pai’s former employer, Verizon, lied about coverage, and then Pai tried to bury the news arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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Yesterday's threads: Monopolies made America vulnerable to covid; The Ministry For the Future; Graffitists hit dozens of NYC subway cars; Breathtaking Iphone hack; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1334546736115642370

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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:

* Monopoly, Not Mind Control: What's Really Happening With "Surveillance Capitalism," Dec 8, nuug.no/aktiviteter/20…

* Colloquium on Information Security, Dec 14, eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-31st-hph…

* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, niso.plus/cory-doctorow-…

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Recent appearances:

* A More Competitive Web (Techdirt Podcast): techdirt.com/articles/20201…

* Big Tech Podcast:
cigionline.org/big-tech/cory-…

* Nerdcanon Podcast:
nerdcanon.com/episode-25-cor…

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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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