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Cory Doctorow #BLM

5 Feb, 20 tweets, 15 min read

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Open Courts Act isn't open enough; AT&T customer complains...via WSJ ad; Amazon's brutal warehouse "megacycle"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/05/la-…

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Next Tuesday, I'm helping Ed Snowden launch the young readers' version of his spectacular memoir "Permanent Record." Join us for a livestream event with Copperfield Books on Feb 9 at 19h Pacific.

eventbrite.com/e/edward-snowd…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1357413620548734976

The Open Courts Act isn't open enough: America's laws should be free.

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AT&T customer complains...via WSJ ad: 90-year-old Aaron Epstein has had it.

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1357725715555225600

Amazon's brutal warehouse "megacycle": Take a 10-hour graveyard shift or lose your job.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1357725715555225600

#15yrsago PC built into whisky bottle metku.net/index.html?sec…

#15yrsago UK nurses want to supply clean blades and cutting advice to self-harmers web.archive.org/web/2006020620…

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#10yrsago Antifeatures: deliberate, expensive product features that no customer wants mako.cc/copyrighteous/…

#5yrsago Toronto City Council defies mayor, demands open, neutral municipal broadband michaelgeist.ca/2016/02/toront…

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#5yrsago Error 53: Apple remotely bricks phones to punish customers for getting independent repairs theguardian.com/money/2016/feb…

#5yrsago Maryland’s Attorney General: you consent to surveillance by turning on your phone vice.com/en/article/bmv…

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#5yrsago There’s a secret “black site” in New York where terrorism suspects are tortured for years at a time theintercept.com/2016/02/05/mah…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1357403289084600320

Yesterday's threads: Organic fascism; Stop the "Stop the Steal" steal; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1357403289084600320

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@washingtonpost

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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@torbooks

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:

* Talking Attack Surface with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Feb 9, eventbrite.com/e/reboot-attac…

* 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:

* Chop Shop Economics soundcloud.com/chopshopeconom…

* Monocle Reads monocle.com/radio/shows/me…

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard Cyber):
play.acast.com/s/cyber/hedgin…

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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 @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

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

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Today's top sources: Slashdot (slashdot.org), Esotouric (esotouric.com), Michael Kohlhaas (michaelkohlhaas.org).

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