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8 Feb, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Last April, I began a serialzed weekly reading of my 2006 novel "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, which Gene Wolfe called "a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read."

craphound.com/category/someo…

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Today - 31 installments later! - I finished reading the book.

craphound.com/news/2021/02/0…

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You can catch up on the other installments here:

craphound.com/podcast/?s=%22…

and subscribe to my podcast feed here:

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podca…

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Here's a direct link to the MP3 (hosting courtesy of the @InternetArchive; they'll host your stuff for free, forever, too!):

archive.org/download/Cory_…

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There's also an official - far superior! - audiobook edition from Blackstone audio, read by @BronsonAP. It's DRM-free, too:

downpour.com/someone-comes-…

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Snowden's young adult memoir; Favicons as undeletable tracking beacons; The ECB should forgive the debt it owes itself; Fleet Street calls out schtum Tories; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/09/per…

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Tonight, 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 mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… at 19h Pacific.

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Snowden's young adult memoir: The Young Readers' edition of Permanent Record.



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9 Feb
If you think hyperpartisan media is unique to the internet age and yearn for the balance and sobriety of the golden age of newspapers, you have an unduly rosy picture of both the past AND the present, as the British press ably demonstrates.

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Maybe you've noticed the odd North American paper with titles that reveal their partisan history, like the Whig Standard and the Press Democrat, or you've heard of old-timey papers like the National Republican. You might think of the WSJ as Republican and the NYT as Dem.

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9 Feb
For people and businesses, money is scarce; for currency-issuing governments, it's not. The story that governments "spend our taxes" is obviously wrong: since governments are the SOURCE of money, it can't be right that governments have to get money from us before they spend.

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Governments spend first, spending money into existence. Then they tax, which annihilates some of that money. If governments run "balanced budgets" (where they tax as much as they spend), they leave no money left over for us to use.

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When you think of online tracking, chances are you think about third-party cookies that follow you from site to site. Third-party cookie handling has been a hot-button issue among the major browser vendors of late, with Google announcing that Chrome would deprecate them.

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9 Feb
"Permanent Record," Edward @Snowden's 2019 memoir, was just what I'd hoped for: a record of a personal journey, recounted in service to a thoughtful, nuanced argument for civil disobedience and acts of conscience.

memex.craphound.com/2019/09/24/per…

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Whistleblowers are often complicated figures. Often, a whistleblower acts out of mixed motivations - personal grievance, trauma, anger. Sometimes they're incoherent and struggle to frame their deeds.

Not Snowden.

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