Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Aaron Epstein got fiber; Ajit Pai, plague villain; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/12/aji…

#Pluralistic

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This weekend, I'm participating in Boskone 58, Boston's annual sf convention.

boskone.org

Tonight, I've got a reading w/@KarlSchroeder (17h Pac) & "Entering the Cyberspace Era" w/@bethmeacham, @jennbrissett, @erricknunnally and Walter Jon Williams (1830h Pac).

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Aaron Epstein got fiber: All it took was an ad in the WSJ.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360259177713573903

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Ajit Pai, plague villain: Killing rural broadband just before a plague.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360264257976233984

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#20yrsago Acme Valentine Heart Maker acme.com/heartmaker/

#15yrsago Canadian Red Cross’s dumb trademark claims are legally dubious web.archive.org/web/2006090111…

#15yrsago Aussie tourist charged with assault for shushing Texas movie phone-talker web.archive.org/web/2006021512…

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#10yrsago HOWTO have a D&D party for 8-year-olds muleabides.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/wha…

#5yrsago Ayn Rand, penis-curser the-toast.net/2016/02/11/ayn…

#5yrsago Austerity Robin Hood: a billionaire who takes from “scroungers” and gives to “hardworking people” lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/…

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#5yrsago Tone-deaf manager announces layoffs to 1400 Carrier Air Conditioner workers whose jobs are moving to Mexico wrtv.com/news/local-new…

#5yrsago Pathetic, smirking attention-whore Martin Shkreli does something cnbc.com/2016/02/11/mar…

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Yesterday's threads: Dependency Confusion; Adam Curtis on criti-hype; Catalytic converter theft; Apple puts North Dakota on blast; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1359944593307914242

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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:

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

* Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future (Purdue CERIAS), Feb 17, cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_event…

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

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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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