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May 5, 2021 • 19 tweets • 15 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Stimmies killed the McJob; MRNA vaccines and Clarke's Law; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/05/cla…

#Pluralistic

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This coming Friday (May 7), the Gaithersburg Book Festival is featuring me in an interview conducted by John Scalzi; we pre-recorded the event but I'll be in the live chat for the premiere.



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Stimmies killed the McJob: Job creators hate him.



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MRNA vaccines and Clarke's Law: JESUS FUCKING HOLY GODDAMNED SHITBALLS.



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#10yrsago Shannon’s Law: a story about bridging Faerie and the mundane world with TCP-over-magic tor.com/2011/05/05/sha…

#10yrsago Neil Gaiman responds to Minnesota Republican House Leader who called him a “pencil-necked geek” and a “thief” journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/05/opinio…

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#5yrsago MEP tours the farcical viewing conditions for TTIP text

#5yrsago Amid education funding emergency, Washington State gives Boeing, Microsoft $1B in tax breaks jeffreifman.com/2016/05/05/for…

#1yrago A federal jobs guarantee pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…

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#1yrago What "writing rules" actually mean pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…

#1yrago Teen Vogue on socialist feminism pluralistic.net/2020/05/05/the…

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Yesterday's threads: Whales decry the casino economy; Qualia; 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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Upcoming appearances:

* In conversation with @Scalzi (@GburgBookFest), May 7,

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media, May 12, knightcolumbia.org/events/reimagi…

* Book launch for Aminder-D's Cyclopedia Exotica, May 12, crowdcast.io/e/udbva8py/reg…

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Recent appearances:

* Hexapodia XIII with @delong and @Noahpinion
braddelong.substack.com/p/podcast-hexa…

* Podcapitalism Podcast
postcapitalismpodcast.com/cory-doctorow/

* Talking "Robot Artists & Black Swans" with Bruce Sterling
archive.org/details/robot-…

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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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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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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/2021/05/05/cla…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

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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).

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Corruption is a system of concentrated gains and diffused costs: cheaters make a lot of money, and their victims each lose a little. The cheater has a much larger pool of money to spend on keeping the scam going, and the victims need to pay *again* to fight the cheater.

1/ A Depression-era Chicago street-scene, featuring a long line of frustrated people standing in front of a series of store-fronts. The image has been altered. It has been colorized. A Live Nation sign has been matted in on one of the storefronts. In the foreground, a disembodied pair of hands perform the shell-game reveal, and beneath the shell is a Ticketmaster ticket.
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Actually, it's worse. The victim pays once when they are cheated, then, they pay a second time (in time and/or money) when they fight back against the cheater.

But in order to fight back effectively, the victims need to band together.

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Seven years ago, I was absolutely floored by *My Favorite Thing Is Monsters*, a wildly original, stunningly gorgeous, haunting and brilliant debut graphic novel from @Emilferrisdraws. Every single thing about this book was *amazing*:



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The cover of the Fantagraphics edition of Emil Ferris's 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two.'
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The more I found out about the book, the more amazed I became. I met Ferris at that summer's San Diego Comic Con, where I learned that she had drawn it over a while recovering from paralysis of her right - dominant - hand after a West Nile Virus infection.

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May 30
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Inside: Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense; and more!

Archived at:

#Pluralistic

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A suite of old, mainframe-style computers. Looming over them is a carny barker, waving a cane. Perched atop one of the mainframes is a skeleton in a robe, drinking a goblet of blood. On the right, a credulous, gap-toothed child in old-timey clothes grins in marvel at the barker's pitch. The background is an out-of-focus filing room filled with ranked filing cabinets and busy clerks.
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Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense: We're living through a revolution, but all we hear about is scams.



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May 29
The corporate wing of the Democrats has objectively terrible political instincts, because the corporate wing of the Dems wants things that are very unpopular with the electorate (this is a trait they share with the Republican establishment).

1/ A press conference in the White House briefing room. The press secretary has been replaced with a woman's torso topped with a 'pizzaburger' (a hamburger patty between two pepperoni pizzas) in place of a head.
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Remember Hillary Clinton's *unimaginably* terrible campaign slogan, "America is already great?" In other words, "Vote for me if you believe that nothing needs to change":



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May 27
One of my favorite nuggets of writing advice comes from @ManorMadhouse. Jim, a Navy vet with an encylopedic knowledge of gun lore, explained to a group of non-gun people how to write guns without getting derided by other gun people: "just add the word 'modified.'"

1/ Three antique leather volumes on a shelf. They are three volumes of Codex Theodos Cum, labeled TOME 1, TOME 2, TOME 3–4. Taken at the Royal College of Physicians Library, Regent's Park, London, UK.
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As in, "Her modified AR-15 kicked against her shoulder as she squeezed the trigger, but she held it steady on the car door, watching it disintegrate in a spatter of bullet-holes."

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Inside: Inkjump Linkdump; and more!

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