Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting; The largest strike in human history; Soviet computing graveyard; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/sur…

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Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting: Upton Sinclair was an optimist.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1335625589647056896

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The largest strike in human history: The Shock Doctrine's breaking-point.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1335631675183620097

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Soviet computing graveyard: Recovering a Saratov-2 from presumed extinction.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1335636745182842880

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#5yrsago Solo: Hope Larson’s webcomic of rock-n-roll, romance, and desperation memex.craphound.com/2015/12/07/sol…

#5yrsago French Ministry of Interior wants to ban open wifi, Tor arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#5yrsago READ: Kim Stanley Robinson’s first standalone story in 25 years! tor.com/2015/12/07/ora…

#1yrago A teenager describes his hilarious adventures installing a surplus, 1,500lb mainframe in his parents’ basement

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#1yrago The lawyer who caught UNC giving $2.5m to white nationalists orders the white nationalists to create a $2.5m fund for Black students or face a lawsuit indyweek.com/news/orange/t-…

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Yesterday's threads: Descartes' God has failed and Thompson's Satan rules our computers; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1335307069159862274

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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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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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