Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Tech trustbusting's moment has arrived; Signed copies of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/20/esc…

#Pluralistic

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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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Tech trustbusting's moment has arrived: The end of the beginning is at hand.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1363164605317402624

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Signed copies of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: Relief for your screen-burned eyes.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1363165116867383298

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#5yrsago What a serious keysigning ceremony looks like eff.org/deeplinks/2016…

#5yrsago Forced arbitration clauses are a form of wealth transfer to the rich web.archive.org/web/2016032214…

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#5yrsago Pseudoscientific terror ended fluoridation in Calgary, now kids’ teeth are rotting theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-di…

#1yrago Adding 2 inches of tape to a road-sign induces sudden 50mph acceleration in Teslas pluralistic.net/2020/02/20/plu…

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#1yrago Bloomberg: kids like Sanders because they're stupid pluralistic.net/2020/02/20/plu…

#1yrago Barclay's bankers forced to endure nagging work-computer spyware pluralistic.net/2020/02/20/plu…

#1yrago Uber driver/sharecroppers drive like maniacs to make quota pluralistic.net/2020/02/20/plu…

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Yesterday's threads: My talks with Edward Snowden and William Gibson; Complicity, incompetence, leadership and Capitol Police; How Republicans froze Texas solid; Uber loses court battle, steals wages, censors whistleblower; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1362831409295945732

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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:

* Tech and Self-Determination


* "Permanent Record" with Snowden

* "Agency" with William Gibson

* Software Freedom is Essential to Human Freedom

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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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