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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Managing aggregate demand"; The 22 Murders of Madison May; When your boss wants an AI camera in your bedroom; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/09/com…

#Pluralistic

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I'm a guest of honor and keynote speaker at Salt Lake City's Quills Conference on writing, Aug 12-15:

quillsconference.com

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Podcasting "Managing aggregate demand": What antitrust law tells us about the moral way to cope with demand that outstrips supply.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1424472136429625345

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The 22 Murders of Madison May: Max Barry's existential interdimensional crime thriller.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1424495542919254016

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When your boss wants an AI camera in your bedroom: "Work from home" is really "live at work."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1424775958385467401

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#20yrsago AI researchers unveil a software robot that they claim can write news stories theguardian.com/uk/2001/aug/09…

#15yrsago Robot garage loses software license, strands parkers web.archive.org/web/2006081220…

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#15yrsago HOWTO photoshop a house into a haunted mansion web.archive.org/web/2006110702…

#15yrsago Canadian librarians decry “Captain Copyright” web.archive.org/web/2006081300…

#10yrsago Canadian scholars & public interest groups oppose Canada’s Internet spying law web.archive.org/web/2011081023…

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#10yrsago Lev Grossman’s The Magician King memex.craphound.com/2011/08/09/lev…

#5yrsago Proof-of-concept ransomware for smart thermostats demoed at Defcon pentestpartners.com/security-blog/…

#5yrsago How racist traffic stops criminalize black people, and what to do about it vox.com/2016/8/5/12364…

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#5yrsago Chicago cops switched off bodycams and high-fived after shooting unarmed black teen theroot.com/chicago-police…

#5yrsago Return of Dieselgate: 3 more hidden programs found in VW Audi/Porsche firmware reuters.com/article/us-vol…

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#5yrsago Your medical data: misappropriated by health-tech companies, off-limits to you wired.com/2016/02/our-me…

#5yrsago Illegal “Warranty Void If Removed” still ubiquitous: they’re on the Xbox One S vice.com/en/article/yp3…

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#5yrsago Mysterious medical research consortium: we should own volunteers’ clinical trial data for 5 years techdirt.com/articles/20160…

#1yrago Commercial real-estate's looming collapse pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/jus…

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#1yrago Test-proctoring software worsens systemic bias pluralistic.net/2020/08/09/jus…

#1yrago Jailed for pen-testing pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…

#1yrago Free the law pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…

#1yrago Google bans anticompetitive vocabularies pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…

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#1yrago Peter Thiel was right pluralistic.net/2020/08/08/tur…

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Saturday's threads: Doordash privacywashes its war on workers; End bankruptcy shopping; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1424051694598455297

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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:

* Keynote speaker, The Quills Conference, Aug 12-15
quillsconference.com

* Launch for @Ben_Rosenbaum's The Unraveling, Aug 23 (@Booksoup)
booksoup.com/event/benjamin…

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Recent appearances:

* Privacy Without Monopoly (@Defcon)


* Building the Digital Commons (@moneyontheleft)
moneyontheleft.org/2021/08/01/bui…

* Reset the Internet? (Project Syndicate)
project-syndicate.org/podcasts/reset…

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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!

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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 "Expectations management," part five of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.

doctorow.medium.com/expectations-m…

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

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's top sources: Super Punch (superpunch.net).

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