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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Privacy Without Monopoly; Broad Band; $50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/13/dat…

#Pluralistic

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

boskone.org

Tonight, on a panel called "Tech Innovation? Does Silicon Valley Have A Mind-Control Ray, Or a Monopoly?" at 530PM Pacific.

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Privacy Without Monopoly: A new EFF white paper, co-authored with Bennett Cyphers.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360459236019347458

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Broad Band: Claire L Evans's magesterial history of women in computing.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360639645848137729

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$50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%: The hereditary meritocracy is in crisis.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360655213292519424

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#15yrsago Google Video DRM: Why is Hollywood more important than users? memex.craphound.com/2006/02/13/goo…

#10yrsago Nokia’s radical CEO has a mercenary, checkered past mercurynews.com/2008/01/11/rss…

#5yrsago I was a Jeopardy! clue memex.craphound.com/2016/02/13/i-w…

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Yesterday's threads: Aaron Epstein got fiber; Ajit Pai, plague villain; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360269858127048707

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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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Today's top sources: Kottke (kottke.org), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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