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26 Jun, 20 tweets, 15 min read
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance; How Peter Thiel gamed the Roth IRA for tax-free billions; New York City's 100 worst landlords; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/26/wax…

#Pluralistic

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Today, I'm appearing on a panel at the #LocusAwards for @locusmag. @WTalabi, @UnlikelyWorlds, @karenthology and I will discourse on "Future Tech: Working the Science into Your Fiction" at 13h Pacific.

locusmag.com/2021-locus-awa…

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The Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance: A long, tall graphic depicting the invisible, ubiquitous city spy-grid.



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How Peter Thiel gamed the Roth IRA for tax-free billions: More from Propublica's Secret IRS Files.



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New York City's 100 worst landlords: Gotta catch 'em all.



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#10yrsago TSA asked 95 year old woman in a wheelchair in terminal stage of leukemia to remove adult diaper for pat-down npr.org/sections/thetw…

#5yrsago The blacker a city is, the more it fines its residents (especially black ones) priceonomics.com/the-fining-of-…

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#5yrsago Australian educational contractor warns of wifi, vaccination danger to “gifted” kids’ “extra neurological connections” theage.com.au/national/victo…

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#5yrsago Beyond “solutionism”: what role can technology play in solving deep social problems ethanzuckerman.com/2016/06/22/the…

#1yrago Splash Mountain to purge Song of the South pluralistic.net/2020/06/26/pol…

#1yrago Talking Job Guarantee with Pavlina Tcherneva pluralistic.net/2020/06/25/can…

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Thursday's threads: The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless; 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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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:

* Future Tech: Working the Science into Your Fiction (Locus Awards), Jun 26, locusmag.com/2021-locus-awa…

* Launch for Neil Sharpson's When the Sparrow Falls (Mysterious Galaxy), mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

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Recent appearances:

* Big Tech Fix, Feet to the Fire podcast:
feet2fire.net/e/a-bigtech-re…

* The ACCESS Act, Consumer Reports:
consumerreports.org/digital-rights…

* Raging Chicken podcast:
rcpress.podbean.com/e/out-dcoup-li…

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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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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/2021/06/26/wax…

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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.

My latest Medium column is "The EU, tech trustbusting and trade-wars": doctorow.medium.com/the-eu-tech-tr…)

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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: Waxy (waxy.org).

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From traffic-cams to mobile device tracking to social media spying and beyond, the urban landscape has quietly become a locus of ubiquitous surveillance, without any meaningful debate, let alone democratic oversight or consent.

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Today's Twitter threads (a thread).

Inside: The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/24/pro…

#Pluralistic

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This Saturday, I'm appearing on a panel at the #LocusAwards for @locusmag. @WTalabi, @UnlikelyWorlds, @karenthology and I will discourse on "Future Tech: Working the Science into Your Fiction" at 13h Pacific.

locusmag.com/2021-locus-awa…

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The pandemic showed remote proctoring to be worse than useless: Kill it with fire.



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