Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: My letter to the FBI; No one should be on the No-Fly List; Oh sure, let's expand the no-fly list; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/20/dam…

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My letter to the FBI: Let the FOIA follies begin!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351733921365463040

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No one should be on the No-Fly List: There should not be a No-Fly List.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351748937376428033

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#15yrsago Seed Magazine launches science blog-network web.archive.org/web/2006011803…

#15yrsago David Byrne: boycott DRM web.archive.org/web/2006011708…

#15yrsago PRO-USER ZEALOT bumper-stickers web.archive.org/web/2012063010…

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#15yrsago Nonprofit alternative to CDDB gets its first deal web.archive.org/web/2006012811…

#10yrsago Best mafiosi nicknames from today’s historic bust web.archive.org/web/2011012316…

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#10yrsago Safe-cracking robot autodials combinations to brute-force a high-security safe web.archive.org/web/2011051115…

#5yrsago Very sad news about science fiction titan David G Hartwell memex.craphound.com/2016/01/20/ver…

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#5yrsago Her Universe will start publishing science fiction novels nytimes.com/2016/01/18/bus…

#1yrago Company that pampers rich people at Burning Man won’t give up memex.craphound.com/2016/01/20/com…

#1yrago Frontier, a terrible company, is going bankrupt arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#1yrago Bestiality was not socially acceptable in medieval Europe going-medieval.com/2020/01/20/no-…

#1yrago Facial recognition isn’t just bad because it invades privacy: it’s because privacy invasions fuel discrimination nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opi…

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Yesterday's threads: Amazon warehouse union gets tech solidarity; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351594692404629505

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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: Interesting People (seclists.org/interesting-pe…).

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