Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Criti-Hype; Right to Repair is back for 2021; The free market and rent-seeking; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/02/eut…

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Criti-Hype: Tech bros will settle for "evil genius."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1356633348723015683

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Right to Repair is back for 2021: Will Apple sabotage this one too?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1356646489074794498

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The free market and rent-seeking: Unauthorized bread and poor doors.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1356668209043103748

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#10yrsago Diane Duane’s crowdfunded publishing experiment finally concludes web.archive.org/web/2011043003…

#10yrsago Inside Sukey, the anti-kettling mobile app theguardian.com/uk/2011/feb/02…

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#5yrsago Swatting attempted against Congresswoman who introduced anti-swatting bill bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/…

#5yrsago Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks’ malware checklist memex.craphound.com/2016/02/02/exc…

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#5yrsago Ross and Carrie become Scientologists: an investigative report 5 years in the making ohnopodcast.com/investigations…

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Yesterday's threads: Someone Comes to Town Part 30; Unidirectional entryism; The good news about vaccination bad news; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1356285904596291595

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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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Today's top sources: Beka Valentine (twitter.com/beka_valentine?, Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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