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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Uber loses (another) $6.8b; Ring helped LAPD spy on BLM protests; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/rin…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow, I'm giving a talk called "Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future" for the Purdue University CERIAS Program:

cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_event…

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Uber loses (another) $6.8b: The market can stay predatory longer than you can stay angry.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1361685471454093316

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Ring helped LAPD spy on BLM protests: The public-private surveillance partnership from hell.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1361695179246161920

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#20yrsago P2P Goes in Search of 'Doogle' web.archive.org/web/2002101906…

#15yrsago Tech companies defend profiteering to Holocaust survivor Congressman web.archive.org/web/2006022103…

#10yrsago Dapper Day at Disneyland: the well-dressed go to the fun-park thedisneyblog.com/2011/02/16/dap…

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#10yrsago Watch: Claude Shannon, Jerome Wiesner and Oliver Selfridge in a 1960s AI documentary

#10yrsago NYC: Chinatown’s last grungy arcade hangs on scoutingny.com/the-last-arcad…

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#5yrsago Matt Ruff’s “Lovecraft Country,” where the horror is racism (not racist) memex.craphound.com/2016/02/16/mat…

#5yrsago Hackers steal a hospital in Hollywood nbclosangeles.com/news/fbi-lapd-…

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#5yrsago NSA and GCHQ’s crappy Big Data techniques may be killing thousands of innocents arstechnica.com/information-te…

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Yesterday's threads: ADT insider threat; Billionaires think VR stops guillotines; Privacy Without Monopoly; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1361377716881137667

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* 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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