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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Housing, money laundry, speculation and precarity; and more!

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Housing, money laundry, speculation and precarity: Henry George was an optimist.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1427324101622833171

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#20yrsago Researchers predict boom market for Palm Pilot exploits usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/cyber/wir…

#20yrsago Berkeley Breathed comes out of retirement for Onion interview web.archive.org/web/2001120106…

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#20yrsago Human tiger files down teeth, tattoos strips, seeks fur implants web.archive.org/web/2001100322…

#15yrsago TSA bans gel-filled bras huffpost.com/entry/us-autho…

#15yrsago Would a hair-gel bomb actually work? web.archive.org/web/2006081505…

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#10yrsago Woman who recorded Massachusetts police beating charged with illegal wiretapping masslive.com/news/2011/08/v…

#10yrsago In-game Ponzi nets US$50K web.archive.org/web/2011092105…

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#10yrsago Damning 2007 letter asserts that phone hacking was an open practice at News of the World theguardian.com/media/2011/aug…

#10yrsago Charlie Stross on network security in 2061 antipope.org/charlie/blog-s…

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#10yrsago Empirical manners: towards a science of harmonious norms antipope.org/charlie/blog-s…

#10yrsago WDW restores original Tiki Room passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2011/08/every-…

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#5yrsago Private prison contractor’s $1B no-bid deal to run immigration jails guarantees 100% occupancy payouts washingtonpost.com/business/econo…

#5yrsago Even the woo industry thinks Gwyneth Paltrow’s “smoothie dust” ads are too much consumerist.com/2016/08/09/ad-…

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#5yrsago After New Zealand spooks misidentified pro-democracy activist, NSA spied on him for them theintercept.com/2016/08/14/nsa…

#5yrsago The Greatest of Marlys! is the Lynda Barry book we’ve been waiting for memex.craphound.com/2016/08/16/the…

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#5yrsago UK Intellectual Property Office grants trademark on “should’ve” bbc.com/news/business-…

#5yrsago Hackers claim to have stolen NSA cyberweapons, auctioning them to highest bidder vice.com/en/article/ezp…

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#1yrago Amazon bans podcasts that criticize Amazon pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/com…

#1yrago Combat Wheelchairs pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/com…

#1yrago How to Argue With a Racist pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/com…

#1yrago Self-driving cars are bullshit pluralistic.net/2020/08/16/com…

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#1yrago The Big Tech firms are dividing the world between them spectator.co.uk/article/the-bi…

#1yrago AI, 1A and Citizens United pluralistic.net/2020/08/15/wis…

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Saturday's threads: Provocateur copyrights a Magic: The Gathering Deck; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1426662134440620032

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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:

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

* From Wayback to Way Forward: The @InternetArchive turns 25, Oct 21
eventbrite.com/e/from-wayback…

* Keynote for @SeaGL 2021, Nov 5-6
seagl.org/news/2021/06/0…

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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 @MCRockefeller. 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 "Disneyland at a stroll," part six of a series on themepark design, queing theory, immersive entertainment, and load-balancing.

doctorow.medium.com/disneyland-at-…

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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: @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), @Metafilter (metafilter.com).

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