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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Are privacy and antitrust on a collision course?; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/24/ill…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow (Aug 25), @ubiquity75 and I will kick off the "Ethics in Tech" online seminar series at @c2i2_ucla.

eventbrite.com/e/ethics-in-te…

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Are privacy and antitrust on a collision course?: Harmful dominance, democratic privacy controls, interop and illegitimate greatness.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1430186469025583111

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#20yrsago $50k fines for Americans who visit Cuba cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NE…

#20yrsago Kevin Mitnick is out of prison web.archive.org/web/2001082708…

#15yrsago EFF sues Barney the humorless, copyright maximalist dinosaur web.archive.org/web/2006081309…

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#10yrsago MP3tunes verdict: music lockers are legal eff.org/deeplinks/2011…

#5yrsago Hedge fund paid terminally ill people to sign up for “death puts” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

#5yrsago As America’s temperatures soar, prisoners are dropping dead theintercept.com/2016/08/24/dea…

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#5yrsago Florida prosecutor who bumbled George Zimmerman trial is really good at putting children in adult prisons for life thenation.com/article/archiv…

#5yrsago Singapore will disconnect entire civil service from the internet theguardian.com/technology/201…

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#5yrsago The 2017 Ikea Catalog considered as dystopian urban microapartment futurism fastcompany.com/3062854/ikeas-…

#5yrsago Young Conservatives’ “leadership seminar” featured food & water deprivation, sexist epithets, physical abuse thestar.com/news/queenspar…

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#1yrago Chinese sf guidelines pluralistic.net/2020/08/24/rai…

#1yrago Don't use Bridgefy at protests pluralistic.net/2020/08/24/rai…

#1yrago Concretizing "Main St vs Wall St" pluralistic.net/2020/08/24/rai…

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1429857361175322659

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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."

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Upcoming appearances:

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

* 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 Rockefeller. 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 "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: @cmcsherr (twitter.com/cmcsherr).

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