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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight; How apps steal your location; Understanding /r/wallstreetbets; Knowledge is why you build your own apps; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/28/pay…

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Join me this afternoon 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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Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight: First Nations treaties do not sign away electromagnetic franchises.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354539423853989888

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How apps steal your location: A deep dive into the murky depths of surveillance markets.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354822298595782656

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Understanding /r/wallstreetbets: More than a bull run, a symbiosis of a market maker and market destroyers.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354848494192738304

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Knowledge is why you build your own apps: Outsourcing software development squanders vital understanding.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354857800707444736

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#15yrsago Photographer’s bust-card silkscreened on white-balance cards web.archive.org/web/2011012415…

#15yrsago What the LibreOffice fork means for Oracle’s shabby treatment of Sun’s free software projects web.archive.org/web/2011013105…

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#15yrsago Danny O’Brien’s Open Source con presentation on Evil web.archive.org/web/2013072920…

#10yrsago William Gibson on Stuxnet nytimes.com/2011/01/27/opi…

#10yrsago Fair use for poets, demystified cmsimpact.org/code/code-best…

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#5yrsago Bill Gates sold rights to the Tiananmen 1989 pictures to a Chinese company qz.com/601830/bill-ga…

#5yrsago Guess who donated all the money to Black Americans for a Better Future Super PAC? Rich white men. theintercept.com/2016/01/28/bla…

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#5yrsago Anaheim: the happiest surveillance state on earth arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen wipes out coral reef with his superyacht caymannewsservice.com/2016/01/billio…

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#5yrsago Florida mayors write to GOP presidential hopefuls demanding action on climate change arstechnica.com/science/2016/0…

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#1yrago “A piece of shit”: Government report on Wells Fargo corruption shows top executives’ direct complicity in millions of acts of fraud latimes.com/business/story…

#1yrago A vase ringed with razor-sharp knives chrisbathgate.blogspot.com/2020/01/sculpt…

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#1yrago “The Art of Computer Designing”: stark, beautiful black-and-white images from 1993 archive.org/details/satoAr…

#1yrago RIP, Jason Polan, who tried to draw every single person in New York City kottke.org/20/01/remember…

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#1yrago What happens when you steadily ramp up the speed at which you listen to podcasts onezero.medium.com/i-tried-listen…

#1yrago After ransomware took Baltimore hostage, Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing the bugs ransomware exploits arstechnica.com/information-te…

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#1yrago The “ops lessons we all learn the hard way” netmeister.org/blog/ops-lesso…

#1yrago Ajit Pai promised that killing net neutrality would spur network investment, but instead Comcast cut spending by 10.5% arstechnica.com/information-te…

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#1yrago The Catholic Church broke its promise to publish a list of “credibly accused” abuser priests, so Propublica did it for them propublica.org/article/cathol…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1354466040139288577

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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!

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

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

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