Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: NYPD can't stop choking Black men; Rolling back the Trump rollback; YMCA, Trump edition; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/21/i-c…

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Tomorrow (or Friday, in Australia), I'm keynoting linux.conf.au:

linux.conf.au/schedule/

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NYPD can't stop choking Black men: A postmortem on many postmortems.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1352293319460544512

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Rolling back the Trump rollback: Administrative competence has its uses.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1352301451968606208

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YMCA, Trump edition: "I said old man, get your Ass. Out. Of. Town."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1352304591812005888

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#15yrsago Disney swaps stock for Pixar; Jobs is largest Disney stockholder web.archive.org/web/2006012910…

#10yrsago Stephen Colbert on Limbaugh’s ching-chong moment web.archive.org/web/2011012516…

#10yrsago Colosseum sofa homedit.com/colosseum-sofa…

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#10yrsago Sudan’s online guns, tanks and ammo vendor web.archive.org/web/2011012807…

#10yrsago EFF warns: mobile OS vendors aren’t serious about security eff.org/deeplinks/2011…

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#5yrsago Kathryn Cramer remembers her late husband, David Hartwell, a giant of science fiction kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer…

#5yrsago That time the DoD paid Duke U $335K to investigate ESP in dogs. Yes, dogs. muckrock.com/news/archives/…

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#1yrago Greta Thunberg has a crisply articulated demand cnn.com/2020/01/21/bus…

#1yrago “Edge AI”: encapsulating machine learning classifiers in lightweight, energy-efficient, airgapped chips wired.com/story/edge-ai-…

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#1yrago China announces ban of single-use plastic bags and straws dw.com/en/china-to-ba…

#1yrago When contracting with Chinese manufacturers, it’s very hard to avoid forced labor harrisbricken.com/chinalawblog/f…

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#1yrago Riot Baby: an afrofuturist science fiction novella of race, rage and fierce resistance memex.craphound.com/2020/01/21/rio…

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Yesterday's threads: 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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1351902562400649216

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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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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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