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6 Apr, 18 tweets, 13 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism; The real cancel culture; Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty; Folio Society publishes Philip K Dick's short fiction; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/06/dig…

#Pluralistic

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On April 13, I'm giving a workshop in collaboration with Phoenix's Changing Hands bookstore: "All the Teachable Things I Know About Writing":

changinghands.com/event/april202…

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Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part one of five(ish).



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The real cancel culture: Multiple-choice union-busting.



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Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty: What technology does isn't as important as who it does it TO.



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Folio Society publishes Philip K Dick's short fiction: Books as artifacts.



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#10yrsago Chicken Little: what does an immortal, vat-bound quadrillionaire need? tor.com/2011/04/06/chi…

#10yrsago Anya’s Ghost: sweet, scary ghost story about identity memex.craphound.com/2011/04/06/any…

#5yrsago Panel on W3C inclusion of DRM in web standards

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Yesterday's threads: How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach; and more!



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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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* All the Teachable Things I Know About Writing, Apr 13, changinghands.com/event/april202…

* Interop: Self-Determination vs Dystopia (FITC), Apr 19-21, fitc.ca/presentation/i…

* Launch for @bruces's Robot Artists & Black Swans, Apr 27, bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…

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Recent appearances:

* Right to Repair, Monopolies, and Solarpunk


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

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

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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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You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/04/06/dig…

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If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "👶🏽". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's top sources: Tor.com (tor.com).

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The wife of one of my elementary school teachers once delivered a full-term, stillborn baby. It was a great tragedy, but far worse came in the months and years that followed, as direct-marketers bombarded them with pitches that tracked the progress of their dead child.

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"Cancel culture" - the prospect of permanent exclusion from your chosen profession due to some flaw - has been a fixture in blue-collar labor since the 1930s, as @nathansnewman writes in @TheProspect.

prospect.org/labor/how-work…

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This week on my podcast, the first part of a five (?) part serialized reading of my 2020 @ozm book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, a book arguing that monopoly - not AI-based brainwashing - is the real way that tech controls our behavior.

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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The book is available in paperback:

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

and DRM-free ebook :

sowl.co/bm2F7c

and my local bookseller, @DarkDel, has signed stock that I'll drop by and personalize for you!

darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…

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Here's the podcast episode:

craphound.com/nonficbooks/de…

and a direct link to the MP3 (hosting courtesy of the @internetarchive; they'll host your stuff for free, forever):

archive.org/download/Cory_…

and here's the RSS feed for my podcast:

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podca…

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/05/zuc…

#Pluralistic

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