Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Casino mogul steals First Nation's vaccine; Facebook champions (its own) privacy; Goldman CEO gets $17.5m reward for $4.5b fraud; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/27/vir…

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Join me tomorrow for the launch of the print edition of my 2020 book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM!

medium.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Casino mogul steals First Nation's vaccine: Rodney and Ekaterina Baker, showing us settler colonialism is alive and well.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354281280632836101

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Facebook champions (its own) privacy: UK privacy regulator says its settlement is a secret.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354454380196425728

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Goldman CEO gets $17.5m reward for $4.5b fraud: 1MDB couldn't have happened without Goldman Sachs.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354461288991100936

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#15yrsago PirateBox: anonymous, stand-alone wireless filesharing node web.archive.org/web/2011012920…

#15yrsago World of Warcraft: Don’t tell anyone you’re queer web.archive.org/web/2006013119…

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#10yrsago Police sergeant: 16 year old girl probably saw penises before I showed her mine, NBD wcvb.com/article/bpd-se…

#5yrsago Shootout in Oregon: one terrorist killed, eight arrested cnn.com/2016/01/26/us/…

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#5yrsago Man gasps dying words into officer’s bodycam: “They’re killing me right now… I can’t breathe.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago All your booze comes from a handful of titanic global corporations eater.com/drinks/2016/1/…

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#5yrsago Chinese snatch-squads roam the globe, kidnapping dissidents and critics washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…

#1yrago One of the CIA’s waterboarding torturers called himself “The Preacher” and shouted religious nonsense while performing executions theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…

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#1yrago Why I won’t buy an Ipad: ten years later memex.craphound.com/2020/01/27/why…

#1yrago Climate denial has destroyed the libertarian movement jacobinmag.com/2020/01/libert…

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#1yrago Amazon threatened to fire two tech workers who spoke about climate and Amazon’s business, then 357 more workers joined them …onemployees4climatejustice.medium.com/amazon-employe…

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Yesterday's threads: Twitter's Project Blue Sky; Brazil's world-beating data breach; Evictions and utility cutoffs are covid comorbidities; "North Korea" targets infosec researchers; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354126592335695872

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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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My 2020 book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposing a way to deal with both:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Now, it's available in paperback!

barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-destr…

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Launch for the print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, Jan 28, medium.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* Launch for the young adult edition of Edward Snowden's memoir PERMANENT RECORD, Feb 9, eventbrite.com/e/edward-snowd…

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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: Kottke (kottke.org), Slashdot (slashdot.org), Late Stage Capitalism (reddit.com/r/LateStageCap…).

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