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Inside: Podcasting "The Memex Method"; Watomatic, for lower Whatsapp switching costs; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/05/24/how…

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Podcasting "The Memex Method": Reading my inaugural Medium column for my podcast.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1396622163742838786

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Watomatic, for lower Whatsapp switching costs: Comcom in action.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1396865373610287107

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#15yrsago Kids turn “teen repellent” sound into teacher-proof ringtone metro.co.uk/2006/05/24/pup…

#10yrsago Falun Gong sues Cisco over complicity in China’s “Golden Shield” – allege torture, murder web.archive.org/web/2011052406…

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#10yrsago Scenes from Los Angeles’s teacher-librarian witch-hunt mizzmurphy.blogspot.com/2011/05/messag…

#5yrsago Philippines’ new “dictator” will give a hero’s burial to Ferdinand Marcos web.archive.org/web/2016052613…

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#5yrsago Judge handcuffs public defender for speaking out in court web.archive.org/web/2017121320…

#5yrsago Algorithmic risk-assessment: hiding racism behind “empirical” black boxes propublica.org/article/machin…

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#5yrsago Grass in the park at the center of San Francisco gentrification debate is now for rent sfist.com/2016/05/23/rec…

#5yrsago Technology’s “culture of compliance” must be beaten back in the name of justice bb9.berlinbiennale.de/all-problems-c…

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#5yrsago Lawsuit: Texas’s largest jail is full of people who are locked up for being poor web.archive.org/web/2016061018…

#5yrsago After the precariat, the unnecessariat: the humans who are superfluous to corporations morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unn…

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#1yrago Coronagrifting and other bad design fictions pluralistic.net/2020/05/24/cor…

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Yesterday's threads: How the Sacklers rigged the game; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1396555026261184514

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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:

* In conversation with @DDayen (Second Life Book Club), Jun 4, draxtor.com/sl-book-club-c…

* Book launch for @TKMiles's Rabbits (@BookSoup), Jun 7, eventbrite.com/e/terry-miles-…

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Recent appearances:

* How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Seize the Means of Computation (@ryersoncfe)
cfe.ryerson.ca/key-resources/…

* Interoperability and Alternative Social Media


* @mamohanraj and @ben_rosenbaum Are Humans
open.spotify.com/episode/01dGJO…

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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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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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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @[e-mail].

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Today's top sources: Red Ferret (redferret.net).

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