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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Disneyland at a stroll"; The Unraveling; What kind of emergency is our emergency?; The secrets of hospital bills; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/23/don…

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Tonight (Aug 23), I'm helping @Ben_Rosenbaum's launch his new novel, "The Unraveling," in a livestreamed event with LA's excellent @BookSoup.

booksoup.com/event/benjamin…

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Podcasting "Disneyland at a stroll": Winding up my series on "amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing" (for now).

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1429551596971593728

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The Unraveling: Ben Rosenbaum's stunning debut novel.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1429597755282837506

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What kind of emergency is our emergency?: Kim Stanley Robinson on the structure of feeling of this perilous moment.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1429643315259973634

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The secrets of hospital bills: What do you call a "market" where no one chooses the services or knows the prices?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1429850109890547712

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#20yrsago Brazil to break patent, make AIDS drug cnn.com/2001/WORLD/ame…

#20yrsago Copyright Your DNA web.archive.org/web/2001082717…

#20yrsago Public wifi is doomed because no one owns it web.archive.org/web/2006031319…

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#15yrsago How to run a successful sf convention room party nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ar…

#15yrsago Google: We are not a verb. Yahoo: Go ahead and remix our brand web.archive.org/web/2006111117…

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#10yrsago How paid FBI anti-terror informants lead “terrorist attacks” that the FBI foils web.archive.org/web/2011091510…

#10yrsago Jack Layton’s final public words: “Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear.” web.archive.org/web/2011101001…

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#10yrsago Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/fal…

#10yrsago William Gibson on cities and the future scientificamerican.com/article/gibson…

#10yrsago RIP, Jack Layton bbc.com/news/world-us-…

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#5yrsago The Equation Group’s sourcecode is totally fugly web.archive.org/web/2016081801…

#5yrsago Robert Moses wove enduring racism into New York’s urban fabric web.archive.org/web/2015120401…

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#5yrsago How the New York Public Library made ebooks open, and thus one trillion times better crummy.com/writing/speaki…

#5yrsago Inside the “sweatshop” terminally ill Britons must call to get benefits theguardian.com/public-leaders…

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#5yrsago Bill Gates’ net worth hits $90B, proving Thomas Piketty’s point bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago 5 years after Texas GOP’s attack on women’s reproductive health, TX leads developed world in maternal mortality theguardian.com/us-news/2016/a…

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#1yrago Quantifying the meritocratic delusion pluralistic.net/2020/08/23/vis…

#1yrago Facebook overrules its own fact-checkers pluralistic.net/2020/08/21/zuc…

#1yrago Zombie postcapitalism pluralistic.net/2020/08/22/thi…

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Saturday's threads: Bubble; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1429120227132936200

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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…

* Ethics in Tech with @ubiquity75, @C2i2_UCLA, Aug 25 eventbrite.com/e/ethics-in-te…

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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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My latest @Medium column is "Raiders of the lost ARC," about the dysfunctional world of Advance Review Copies and what to do about it.

doctorow.medium.com/raiders-of-the…

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

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Today's top sources: @jjn1 (memex.naughtons.org), @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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