Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Mini retro computers; Bunkered, infectious, maskless Republicans infected Congress; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/12/mas…

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Mini retro computers: Oriol Ferrer Mesià's extraordinary 3D printed machines.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1348840078177497089

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Bunkered, infectious, maskless Republicans infected Congress: Impossible to explain something to a Congressman whose caucus membership depends on his not understanding it.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1349063591840735233

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#15yrsago Printcrime (Nature) craphound.com/stories/2006/0…

#10yrsago HOWTO teach your small children to swordfight tor.com/2011/01/12/spe…

#5yrsago Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical memex.craphound.com/2016/01/12/kee…

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#5yrsago Will the W3C strike a bargain to save the Web from DRM? eff.org/deeplinks/2016…

#5yrsago Rich Americans are embarrassed by Donald Trump gawker.com/donald-trumps-…

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#5yrsago Book says Daddy Koch built Nazi oil refinery & hired a Nazi nanny for his boys, who blackmailed their gay brother nytimes.com/2016/01/12/us/…

#1yrago Glossary: Chinese futurist military jargon wired.com/beyond-the-bey…

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Yesterday's threads: DC's security theater panned; Weaponing and monetizing apophenia; Awful voting-machine demands silence; Someone Comes to Town Part 27; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1348744614623154176

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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:

* 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: JWZ (jwz.org/blog/).

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