Thread by @doctorow

Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: How to leak a Zoom meeting; Pandemics and peak indifference; Planet Money's free Great Gatsby audiobook; Honor MLK day with the Internet Archive; Facebook's community standards; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/18/pea…

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How to leak a Zoom meeting: Watermarks, tile randomization, and more.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351200416613150720

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Pandemics and peak indifference: Squandering history's most expensive lessons.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351235074906271749

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Planet Money's free Great Gatsby audiobook: The public domain in action.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351244109189550080

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Honor MLK day with the Internet Archive: A fabulous, open access trove.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351258785738682370

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Someone Comes to Town, Part 28: This week's podcast installment carries on my friendly dispute with Manuel Castells.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351261487369654277

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Facebook's community standards: JWZ's 0-follower, 0-post FB account was suspended.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351265372666621953

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#20yrsago Simson Garfinkel changes his tune about Java web.archive.org/web/2001012606…

#15yrsago Iraq invasion as a text-adventure defectiveyeti.com/archives/00156…

#15yrsago Escape Pod podcast of "Craphound" hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/1/7/3/173207…

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#15yrsago Musician playing at Hollywood’s MP fundraiser owes success to copying web.archive.org/web/2008070411…

#15yrsago Hollywood’s MP caught lying on tape web.archive.org/web/2006101012…

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#10yrsago Among Others: extraordinary, magic story of science fiction as a toolkit for taking apart the world memex.craphound.com/2011/01/18/amo…

#5yrsago Debullshitifying the “sleep science” industry: first up, sleeplessness and obesity askforevidence.org/articles/obesi…

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#5yrsago Martin Luther King, socialist: “capitalism has outlived its usefulness” theintercept.com/2016/01/18/mar…

#5yrsago Reminder: Don’t put balls of tea leaves in your vagina independent.co.uk/life-style/hea…

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#1yrago Manhattan: a city of empty luxury condos and overflowing homeless shelters theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

#1yrago Brazilian authoritarian Bolsonaro fires his culture minister for giving a speech plagiarized from Joseph Goebbels theintercept.com/2020/01/18/bol…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1350825272732389377

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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 @[e-mail].

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Waxy (waxy.org).

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