Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon; Apple's manorial security; Billionaires don't pay tax; Google and France agree on ad-tech interop; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/08/leo…

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Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1402036756908707841

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Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly - think different?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1402284522360623107

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Billionaires don't pay tax: Leona Helmsley was an unrecognized genius.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1402303572167987200

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Google and France agree on ad-tech interop: Not the kind of competition we want.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1402314799015370755

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#10yrsago Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA cnet.com/news/richard-d…

#10yrsago Top universities a ‘breeding ground’ for Tories, warn Islamic groups newsthump.com/2011/06/07/top…

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#10yrsago Copyright extremist RIAA lawyer confirmed as America’s Solicitor General wired.com/2011/06/senate…

#5yrsago Password hashing demystified wired.com/2016/06/hacker…

#1yrsago Big mail providers block indie mailing lists pluralistic.net/2020/06/08/the…

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#1yrago Private equity's coming for your pension pluralistic.net/2020/06/08/the…

#1yrsago Cops are legally entitled to reject "high IQ" candidates pluralistic.net/2020/06/08/the…

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Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "I Quit"; New York to revolutionize antitrust; New York to revolutionize voting; Competition tames ISPs; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1401967803456835585

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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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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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My latest @Medium column is "The Rent’s Too Damned High," about the long con of convincing Americans that they will grow prosperous through housing wealth, not labor rights

doctorow.medium.com/the-rents-too-…

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Today's top sources: @BoingBoing (boingboing.net), @Slashdot (slashdot.org), @Gizmodo (gizmodo.com).

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