Today's Twitter threads (a thread).
Inside: The Observatory of Anonymity; Hawley and Taylor Greene faked their donor-surge; What's wrong with EU's trustbusters; Some thoughts on GWB's call for truth in politics; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/21/re-…
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Inside: The Observatory of Anonymity; Hawley and Taylor Greene faked their donor-surge; What's wrong with EU's trustbusters; Some thoughts on GWB's call for truth in politics; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/21/re-…
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The Observatory of Anonymity: You are far less of a haystack-needle than you think.
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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1384884710577348614
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Hawley and Taylor Greene faked their donor-surge: Juking stats for fun, fortune, and fame.
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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1384888559836884999
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What's wrong with EU's trustbusters: And how to fix it.
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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1384933208668753929
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Some thoughts on GWB's call for truth in politics: Mission accomplished.
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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1384935409277362176
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#15yrsago Thieves discover abandoned Soviet missile silo full of cash web.archive.org/web/2006032309…
#10yrsago MPAA: “democratizing culture is not in our interest” torrentfreak.com/mpaa-democrati…
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#10yrsago MPAA: “democratizing culture is not in our interest” torrentfreak.com/mpaa-democrati…
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#5yrsago Printer ink wars may make private property the exclusive domain of corporations eff.org/deeplinks/2016…
#5yrsago VW offers to buy back 500K demon-haunted diesels reuters.com/article/us-vol…
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#5yrsago VW offers to buy back 500K demon-haunted diesels reuters.com/article/us-vol…
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#5yrsago Why Internet voting is a terrible idea, explained in small words anyone can understand
#5yrsago Why is Congress so clueless about tech? Because they fired all their experts 20 years ago wired.com/2016/04/office…
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#5yrsago Why is Congress so clueless about tech? Because they fired all their experts 20 years ago wired.com/2016/04/office…
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#5yrsago Kindle Unlimited is being flooded with 3,000-page garbage books that suck money out of the system consumerist.com/2016/04/20/ama…
#1yrago Phishers deploy fake contact-tracing warnings pluralistic.net/2020/04/21/all…
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#1yrago Phishers deploy fake contact-tracing warnings pluralistic.net/2020/04/21/all…
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Yesterday's threads: Real penalties for covid evicters; McDonald's corporate wages war on ice-cream hackers; and more!
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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1384531775192399872
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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:
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Signed copies here:
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* Book launch for Bruce Sterling's Robot Artists & Black Swans (Book People), Apr 27, bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…
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* Book launch for Bruce Sterling's Robot Artists & Black Swans (Book People), Apr 27, bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…
* Seize the Means of Computation, Ryerson Centre for Free Expression, May 19, cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-des…
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Recent appearances:
* Right to Repair, Monopolies, and Solarpunk
* The surveillance state, digital monopolies, and why we should be worried (Podsongs)
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* 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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