Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Competition is Killing Us; Predatory lender seeks national bank charter; Militarizing cops was a failure; and more!

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Competition is Killing Us: Consumer harm considered harmful.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347337250774736897

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Predatory lender seeks national bank charter: Oportun led America in suing latinx borrowers during the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347586200480071681

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Militarizing cops was a failure: Water still wet.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347598117995118595

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#15yrsago Hollywood’s Canadian MP claims she’s no dirtier than the rest web.archive.org/web/2006090616…

#15yrsago John McDaid’s brilliant sf story Keyboard Practice free online web.archive.org/web/2006011105…

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#5yrsago Gene Luen Yang’s inaugural speech as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature memex.craphound.com/2016/01/08/gen…

#1yrago Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it’s no longer possible to make a functional indie browser blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-…

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#1yrago A Public Service: a comprehensive, comprehensible guide to leaking documents to journalists and public service groups without getting caught memex.craphound.com/2020/01/08/a-p…

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Yesterday's threads: Into the breach; Revolutionary Colossus; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347260270662488065

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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."

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* What if the future of our public lives online looked like _____? (panel at New_ Public), Jan 13, newpublic.org/festival/event…

* Keynote for linux.conf.au, Jan 22 (US) 23 (Australia) linux.conf.au/schedule/

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Recent appearances:

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard):
play.acast.com/s/cyber/hedgin…

* Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change:
hbr.org/podcast/2020/1…

* 2020 Beaverbrook Lectures:


* Bibliotherapy/Shelf Healing:
buzzsprout.com/1509671/6580831

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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: Boing Boing (boingboing.net).

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