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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: China’s war on big data backstabbing; Someone Comes to Town Part 25; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/12/07/bac…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow morning, I'm giving a talk for the Norwegian Unix Users' Group: "Monopoly, Not Mind Control: What's Really Happening With 'Surveillance Capitalism.'"

nuug.no/aktiviteter/20…

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China’s war on big data backstabbing: China's antimonopoly, grounded in price discrimination.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1335991459623800844

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Someone Comes to Town Part 25: This week on my podcast.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1335995691680722944

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#5yrsago Multi-generational cruelty: America’s prisons shutting down kids’ visitations thenation.com/article/archiv…

#5yrsago Harvard Business School: Talented assholes are more trouble than they’re worth hbs.edu/faculty/Public…

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#5yrsago Thomas Piketty seminar on Crooked Timber crookedtimber.org/2016/01/04/tho…

#1yrago Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science “walking polygraph” method to steer their investigation propublica.org/article/why-ar…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1335639847201992705

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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:

* Worldshapers
theworldshapers.com/2020/12/06/epi…

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

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

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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].

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Delighted to learn that Attack Surface has been nominated for 2021's Prometheus Award, along with Martha Wells's "Network Effect" and five others!

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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