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Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: My talks with Snowden and William Gibson; Complicity, incompetence and Capitol Police; How Republicans froze Texas solid; Uber loses court battle, steals wages, censors whistleblower

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/19/tex…

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On Feb 22, I'm delivering a keynote address for the NISO Plus conference, "The day of the comet: what trustbusting means for digital manipulation."

nisoplus21.sched.com/event/fMlc/key…

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My talks with Edward Snowden and William Gibson: Two wonderful books for your TBR.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1362788987472015365

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Complicity, incompetence, leadership and Capitol Police: A deep postmortem and legal repercussions.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1362796114961784835

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How Republicans froze Texas solid: Market Lysenkoists.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1362813878963376130

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Uber loses court battle, steals wages, censors whistleblower: Big bezzle energy.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1362824952957853699

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#5yrsago Tipping screws poor people, women, brown people, restaurateurs, local economies and…you washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2…

#5yrsago Health insurance must pay for exoskeletons vice.com/en/article/8q8…

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#5yrsago “Citizens” who speak at town meetings are hired, scripted actors nbclosangeles.com/news/local/con…

#5yrsago Leaked memos suggest Volkswagen’s CEO knew about diesel cheating in 2014 nytimes.com/2016/02/19/bus…

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#1yrago Rental car immobilizes itself when driven out of cellular range pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…

#1yrago Rethinking "de-growth" and material culture pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…

#1yrago The Woman Who Loved Giraffes pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/plu…

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Yesterday's threads: Planet Money on HP's myriad ripoffs; Strength in numbers; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1362420022933524480

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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:

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

* Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Contemporary Political Struggle: Social Movements, Social Surveillance, Social Media (with Zeynep Tufekci), Feb 24, ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Recent appearances:

* Talking "Permanent Record" with Edward Snowden

* Talking "Agency" with William Gibson

* Software Freedom is Essential to Human Freedom (linux.conf.au keynote)

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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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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