Thread by @doctorow

Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Robot Artists & Black Swans; Klobuchar on trustbusting; Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz; Unpack the court with judicial overrides; Lexmark's toxic printer-ink; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bru…

#Pluralistic

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Next Thursday, I'm helping Bruce Sterling launch "Robot Artists & Black Swans," a book of sf short stories in the Italian "fantascienza" mode, at Austin's Book People!

bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…

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Robot Artists & Black Swans: The fantascienza of "Bruno Argento" (AKA Bruce Sterling).

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1386821005222445056

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Klobuchar on trustbusting: She's just published "Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1387066155152470018

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Pharma's anti-generic-vaccine lobbying blitz: A civilization-ending delusion about pools with "no-pissing" ends.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1387078745169698816

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Unpack the court with judicial overrides: Consumer Protection and Recovery Act and beyond.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1387086859524722689

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Lexmark's toxic printer-ink: Every pirate wants to be an admiral.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1387098297282621442

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#1yrago Hospital cuts healthcare workers' pay, pays six-figure exec bonuses pluralistic.net/2020/04/27/in-…

#1yrago Pandemic proves ISP data-caps were always a pretense pluralistic.net/2020/04/27/in-…

#10yrsago Pinhole cameras made out of hollow eggs lomography.com/magazine/71984…

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Yesterday's threads: The Big U; How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Part 4; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1386717060550467598

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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:

* Book launch for Bruce Sterling's Robot Artists & Black Swans (Book People), Apr 27, bookpeople.com/event/virtual-…

* Book launch for Aminder Dhaliwal's Cyclopedia Exotica (Indigo), May 13, crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…

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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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Today's top sources: Pretzel6666 (twitter.com/pretzel6666)

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