Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Fighting fiber was the right's dumbest self-own; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/17/tur…

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Fighting fiber was the right's dumbest self-own: "We don't have to care. We're the [phone company|social media monopolist]."



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#20yrsago The writings of “Red” Emma Goldman, collected with old Hearst newsreels, letters, and criticism lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/

#15yrsago Octavia Butler’s “Fledgling”: subtle, thrilling vampire novel memex.craphound.com/2006/01/17/oct…

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#10yrsago Suzuki Beane: lost 1961 beatnik kids’ book from Louise Fitzhugh and Sandra Scoppettone scribd.com/doc/24325132/S…

#5yrsago The Electable Mr Sanders robertreich.org/post/137454417…

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#5yrsago Jeremy Corbyn proposes ban on dividends from companies that don’t pay living wages theguardian.com/politics/2016/…

#5yrsago Oregon domestic terrorists now destroying public property in earnest theguardian.com/us-news/2016/j…

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#5yrsago Trump Casinos lost millions every single year that Donald Trump ran it (but he’s still rich) marketwatch.com/story/donald-t…

#5yrsago Revealed: the hidden web of big-business money backing Europe and America’s pro-TTIP “think tanks” thecorrespondent.com/3884/Big-busin…

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#1yrago Inventive students detach IoT car-immobilizers, use their SIMs to power free wifi hotspots reddit.com/r/specializedt…

#1yrago Fast-tracked South Dakota bill will felonize doctors who offer gender-confirmation therapy to trans kids thegailygrind.com/2020/01/16/rep…

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#1yrago Ars Technica’s dunk on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Netflix series is the best dunk of all arstechnica.com/science/2020/0…

#1yrago Imagining a “smart city” that treats you as a sensor, not a thing to be sensed theguardian.com/cities/2020/ja…

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Yesterday's threads: Pelosi kicks Katie Porter off the Finance Committee; and more!



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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:

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

* Evening with William Gibson, Jan 25, eventbrite.com/e/william-gibs…

* Boskone, 58, Feb 12-15, boskone.org

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Recent appearances:

* Monocle Reads monocle.com/radio/shows/me…

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

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

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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 @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

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

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