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Cory Doctorow

10 Jul, 22 tweets, 22 min read

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/07/10/unn…

#Pluralistic

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@unshavedmouse

Today (Saturday) at 2PM PT, I'm helping @unshavedmouse launch his debut novel,"When the Sparrow Falls" at an event with @MystGalaxyBooks:
mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

My review:
pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/bas…

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1413908241638068233

Biden's Right to Repair will include electronics, too: Part of a broad antimonopoly agenda.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1413908241638068233

#20yrsago On the care and feeding of hackers demigodllc.com/~zak/geek/hack…

#20yrsago The Extent of Systematic Monitoring of Employee E-mail and Internet Use web.archive.org/web/2001071120…

#20yrsago Marvel Comics isn’t dead yet! web.archive.org/web/2001110618…

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@TimOReilly

#20yrsago @TimOReilly on Craig Mundie's OSCON keynote web.archive.org/web/2001070110…

#15yrsago BPI: We should be able to cut off your Internet memex.craphound.com/2006/07/10/bpi…

#15yrsago New Atari 2600 game cartridge released quernhorst.de/atari/ac.html
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#15yrsago Dale Bailey's "The Resurrection Man’s Legacy and Other Stories," southern gothic sf memex.craphound.com/2006/07/09/sou…

#10yrsago Mystery of the Haunted Mansion Hatbox Ghost: solved! disneyhistoryinstitute.com/2011/07/actual…

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#5yrsago The week in Pokemon: home invasions, armed robbery, police militarization memex.craphound.com/2016/07/10/the…

#5yrsago Jughead: Zdarsky’s reboot is funny, fannish, and freaky memex.craphound.com/2016/07/10/jug…

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#1yrsago Macron demands national database of porn preferences pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago Clamshell currency pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago How Finspy protects itself from security researchers pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

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#1yrago Police militarization has a business-model pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago Dataminr helped cops spy on protesters with Twitter pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago Teddy Ruxpin and the Haunted Mansion pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

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#1yrago Homebrew dongles let hospitals fix ventilators pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/fli…

#1yrago Muppet Hamilton pluralistic.net/2020/07/09/enh…

#1yrago Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley pluralistic.net/2020/07/09/enh…

#1yrago Cops are buying breach data pluralistic.net/2020/07/09/enh…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1413153086923632642

Thursday's threads: Indonesia's gig work tech resistance; Owning a sports-team is a plute's get-out-of-tax-free card; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1413153086923632642

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@washingtonpost

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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@torbooks

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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@Defcon

Upcoming appearances:

* Project Abraham book club (to benefit Yezidi refugees):
d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/truthmustbetol…

* Privacy Without Monopoly, @Defcon 29, Aug 7
defcon.org/html/defcon-29…

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@MacroCheese

Recent appearances:

* The Bitcoin Podcast:
thebitcoinpodcast.com/the-bitcoin-po…

* The Rent's Too Damned High, @MacroCheese:
realprogressives.org/podcast_episod…

* 3D Printing Sci-Fi, 3DPOD:
3dprint.com/282547/3dpod-e…

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@MCRockefeller

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 @MCRockefeller. 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/2021/07/10/unn…

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@Medium

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

My latest Medium column is "Self Publishing," about the consolidation in publishing and what to do about it

doctorow.medium.com/self-publishin…

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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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@borbulon

Today's top sources: @borbulon (twitter.com/borbulon/), @NakedCapitalism).

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The Biden administration teased a sweeping antimonopoly executive order last week, including a #RightToRepair provision that was to be aimed at agricultural equipment - a direct assault on the corporate power of repair archnemesis @johndeere. It

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mystgalaxy.com/sharpson71021

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