Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: K-shaped recovery vs wealth taxes; Facebook vs Australia; The Paltrow-Industrial Complex; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/21/pal…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow, 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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K-shaped recovery vs wealth taxes: Evita's spectre is haunting Argentina.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1363498926167363587

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Facebook vs Australia: It's not a link-tax, it's collective bargaining.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1363517761310265347

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The Paltrow-Industrial Complex: How Goop is cashing in on covid.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1363524397554835460

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#15yrsago Artists paint Detroit’s derelict buildings Tiggeriffic Orange thedetroiter.com/nov05/disneyde…

#15yrsago Copyright office head denounces “big mistake” of extending copyright web.archive.org/web/2006032916…

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#15yrsago Shoes designed for illegal Mexican/US border crossings news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/…

#10yrsago America’s Chief Apocalypse Officer, a Fed job ad from 1956 web.archive.org/web/2011021002…

#10yrsago How Anonymous decides: inside the lulz-sausage factory arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#10yrsago Overcome information overload by trusting redundancy theguardian.com/technology/201…

#10yrsago Saif Gadaffhi, plagiarist saifalislamgaddafithesis.fandom.com/wiki/Saif_Al-I…

#10yrsago Gadaffhi Junior’s PhD celebrates “soft power,” democracy 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2…

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#10yrsago Libya’s UN mission asks world to defend Libyans from Gadaffi web.archive.org/web/2011022404…

#10yrsago Google App to help locate people in Christchurch quake web.archive.org/web/2011022209…

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#5yrsago Republican Congressmen backed by airline money kill research on legroom and passenger safety theintercept.com/2016/02/21/bac…

#5yrsago Uber uses customer service reps to push anti-union message to drivers qz.com/619601/uber-is…

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#1yrago Gopher shows us how adversarial interoperability was there from the start pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/plu…

#1yrago Bloomberg's campaign NDA is a gag order that covers sexual abuse and other crimes pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/plu…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1363190419715067904

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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 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. It's out in paperback!

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…

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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:

* Technology, Self-Determination


* "Permanent Record" (Snowden)

* "Agency" (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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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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