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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Patent troll IP is more powerful than Apple's; Podcasting "Free Markets"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/03/22/gan…

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On Wednesday night, I'm participating in a Clarion Writing Workshop panel called "Balancing Worldbuilding and Narrative," with Karen Osborne and Kali Wallace

ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Patent troll IP is more powerful than Apple's: Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1374020143316004864

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Podcasting "Free Markets": Taxation without representation.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1374015695487299584

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#15yrsago Airport screening doesn’t stop knives, bombs, or guns schneier.com/blog/archives/…

#15yrsago Vinge’s scientific computing Nature article about MMORPGs nature.com/articles/44041…

#15yrsago Apple’s hypocritical slam against French DRM-interop law news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolog…

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#10yrsago Google Book Search rejected: why not try fair use instead? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago HOWTO play the opening chord from ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ beatlesbible.com/features/hard-…

#10yrsago Why Rasputin isn’t in the Haunted Mansion …gforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2011/03/famous…

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#5yrsago Anti-DRM demonstrators picket W3C meeting eff.org/deeplinks/2016…

#5yrsago Silverpush says it’s not in the ultrasonic audio-tracker ad-beacons business anymore vice.com/en/article/9a3…

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#5yrsago US Embassy staffer ran a sextortion racket from work computer for 2 years arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#1yrago How "concierge doctors" supply the "worried well" with masks, respirators and tests pluralistic.net/2020/03/22/pre…

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#1yrago Law firm tells work-from-homers to switch off smart speakers pluralistic.net/2020/03/22/pre…

#1yrago How prepper media is coping with the crisis pluralistic.net/2020/03/22/pre…

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Yesterday's threads: The political possibility of cities; Donziger correction; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1373675338379657219

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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 (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Balancing Worldbuilding and Narrative (with Karen Osborne and Kali Wallace), Mar 24, ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* Launch for Brian David Johnson's Future You (Powell's Books), Mar 30, zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Recent appearances:

* The surveillance state, digital monopolies, and why we should be worried (Podsongs)
anchor.fm/podsongs/episo…

* Conspiracy Theories (Utopian Horizons):
soundcloud.com/utopianhorizon…

* Canadian Speculative Fiction (Unknown Worlds):
unknownworlds.podbean.com/e/canadian/

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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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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @[e-mail].

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Today's top sources: Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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