Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Take It Back"; Savage Love A-Z; The Pandora Papers; USPS pilots postal banking; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avo…

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Podcasting "Take It Back": My Medium column on copyright termination and rights reversion.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1444856837136740360

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Savage Love A-Z: A bestiary of good sex.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1445026378437435397

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The Pandora Papers: Tax avoidance is tax evasion.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1445050034370740226

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USPS pilots postal banking: Slashing taxes (on the poor).

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1445057355641540614

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#20yrsago Copyright maximalist demands infringement crackdown to fight bin Laden corpwatch.org/article/us-opp…

#20yrsago Australian composers copyright every possible phone number as a touch-tone tune web.archive.org/web/2001100707…

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#20yrsago Brain-scans can defeat terrorism, InfoSeek founder claims theregister.com/2001/10/03/bra…

#15yrsago What happens to password-locked data when you die? web.archive.org/web/2006110623…

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#10yrsago Shadowy organization publishes blacklist of writers who track down con-artists whatever.scalzi.com/2011/10/03/wri…

#10yrsago Inquisitor’s Apprentice: tenement sorcerers versus the robber barons in an alternate Gilded Age New York memex.craphound.com/2011/10/04/inq…

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#10yrsago Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century memex.craphound.com/2011/10/03/con…

#10yrsago Shell funded warring militias in the Niger Delta web.archive.org/web/2011100600…

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#5yrsago Flying Saucers are Real! Anthology of the lost saucer-craze memex.craphound.com/2016/10/03/fly…

#5yrsago Survivors of CIA torture describe homebrew electric chair used at Afghan black site theintercept.com/2016/10/03/for…

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#5yrsago Meth, Hitler and the Reich: the true, untold story of the Nazis’ dependence on coke, meth and oxy theguardian.com/books/2016/sep…

#5yrsago Ghosts: Raina Telgemeier’s upbeat tale of death, assimilation and cystic fibrosis memex.craphound.com/2016/10/04/gho…

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#5yrsago Martin Shkreli offers a bailout to ailing 4chan arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago “Power Poses” are bullshit wbur.org/npr/496093672/…

#5yrsago The Wells Fargo fraud came to light because of union organizers prospect.org/labor/first-fo…

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#5yrsago California’s 40-year-old ban on property tax raises has made the rich a lot richer latimes.com/business/hiltz…

#5yrsago Twice, Sacramento cops tried to run down mentally ill man, then they shot him 14 times theguardian.com/us-news/2016/o…

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#5yrsago The malware that’s pwning the Internet of Things is terrifyingly amateurish vice.com/en/article/jpg…

#5yrsago Johnson & Johnson says people with diabetes don’t need to worry about potentially lethal wireless attacks on insulin pumps reuters.com/article/us-joh…

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#5yrsago Yahoo secretly built a tool to scan all email in realtime for US spies reuters.com/article/idUSKC…

#1yrago Normal isn't enough pluralistic.net/2020/10/04/bui…

#1yrago Inequality and luck and risk and merit pluralistic.net/2020/10/03/the…

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Saturday's threads: How the IMF loan-sharks the global south; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1444366522512642048

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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:

* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress, Oct 7
zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* 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:

* Community & Technology


* Infosec Apocaylpse (We're In podcast)
were-in.simplecast.com/episodes/cory-…

* @WalledCulture


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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.

My latest Medium column is "Hope, not optimism," a rule-of-thumb-based theory of change.

medium.com/@doctorow/hope…

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