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30 Jan, 16 tweets, 12 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity; Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity; Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/mem…

#Pluralistic

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Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity: A thoughtful analysis.



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Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity: I thought about it some more.



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Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets: Even if there's no angels, there's still a path to glory.



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#10yrsago Morrow’s Diviner’s Tale is a tight, literary ghost story memex.craphound.com/2011/01/30/mor…

#10yrsago ATM skimmer that doesn’t require any modifications to the ATM krebsonsecurity.com/2011/01/atm-sk…

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#5yrsago Same as the old boss: Justin Trudeau ready to sign Harper’s EU free trade deal cbc.ca/news/politics/…

#5yrsago Danish government let America’s Snowden-kidnapping jet camp out in Copenhagen web.archive.org/web/2016012620…

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Yesterday's threads: David Dayen's MONOPOLIZED; and more!



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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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

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

* Boskone, 58, Feb 12-15, boskone.org

* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, niso.plus/cory-doctorow-…

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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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Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/mem…

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Mashing the Bernie meme; Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/31/rhy…

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Mashing the Bernie meme: What if every video game, except Bernie with mittens?



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Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q: What if it's all a big fat lie?



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As the Qanon prophecies fail and the cult-members struggle to resolve their cognitive dissonance, it's a good time to revisit the history of paranoid, conspiratorial political movements in American history - the "paranoid style" that has dominated since the Revolution.

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After all, the very first skirmishes of the US war of independence were based on a conspiracy theory: that the levy on tea was a prelude to a sellout of the colonists to transnational mercantalist interests. US politics have always been conspiratorial.

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I found @zacharykarabell's @politico history of the Know Nothing party especially useful, as it tells the story of what happens when surging, paranoid, fractious political movements implode.

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The remix culture of the early 2000s left an indelible impression on me, an enduring delight in the power of whimsy, juxtaposition, virtuosity and ingenuity - and the ability of strangers all over the world to collaborate without any explicit coordination.

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A thread for #privacy2me/@wedf2021: "What privacy means to me and why it matters," adapted from HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Tagging @m_older, @scalzi, and @MalJayaram in case they're game for answering (and tagging 3 others) too.

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The effects of surveillance on our ability to be authentic selves are not equal for all people. Some are lucky enough to live in a time and place in which the most important facts of our lives are acceptable and can be publicly disclosed without the risk of social consequence

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But for many of us, this is not true. Recall that in living memory, many of the ways of being that we think of as socially acceptable today were once cause for dire social sanction or even imprisonment.

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