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

Inside: We CAN have nice things; Howard Dean's racist, genocidal pharma sellout; 60 seconds of giddy, terrifying, delightful surrealism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/08/how…

#Pluralistic

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Next Tuesday, 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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We CAN have nice things: Why - and how - America's New New Deal should go VERY VERY big.



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Howard Dean's racist, genocidal pharma sellout: Once a progressive lion, now a shill for the worst companies on Earth. Fuck that guy sideways with a brick.



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60 seconds of giddy, terrifying, delightful surrealism: The magic realism of Fernando Livschitz.



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#5yrsago Pope invites Bernie Sanders to Vatican to speak about “social, economic, and environmental” issues bbc.com/news/election-…

#5yrsago The international art market is a money laundry whose details are in the Panama Papers fusion.tv/story/288515/p…

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#5yrsago Tax investigators use Rich Kids of Instagram to uncover oligarchs’ hidden millions theguardian.com/technology/201…

#1yrago Nurse suspended for distributing crowdfunded PPE pluralistic.net/2020/04/08/non…

#1yrago Plain Dealer executed by unionbusting owners pluralistic.net/2020/04/08/non…

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Yesterday's threads: Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual; Door Dashers organize app-defeating solidarity; 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' 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/2021/04/08/how…

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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: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com, Kottke kottke.org).

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Remember Howard Dean, the progressive champion who campaigned on equitable health care and other desperately needed policies?

He's dead.

He's been replaced by Howard Dean, the not-a-lobbyist who won't tell anyone what he does for the giant lobbying firm Dentons.

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7 Apr
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual; Door Dashers organize app-defeating solidarity; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/07/cru…

#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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Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual: The NYPD isn't "undertrained" - the cruelty is the point.



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