Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: DoS a federal agency, then charge for access; "Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/07/mar…

#Pluralistic

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The paperback for Attack Surface - a standalone Little Brother book for adults - is out!

us.macmillan.com/books/97812507…

Signed copies:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

One-month only audiobook sale with Little Brother and Homeland:

sowl.co/uqT2G

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DoS a federal agency, then charge for access: Enq carries on a tradition of genuinely terrible startup ideas.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1445902596653260800

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"Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains: Universities are auto-billing students for high-priced, self-destructing textbooks they can't loan or sell.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1446117276239863820

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Scottish Limited Partnerships are still laundering criminal millions: Offshore is actually onshore.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1446146365004738562

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#10yrsago Tempo: transformative, difficult look at advanced decision-making theory memex.craphound.com/2011/10/07/tem…

#5yrsago Yahoo didn’t install an NSA email scanner, it was a “buggy” NSA “rootkit” vice.com/en/article/53d…

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#1yrago Congress's Big Tech trustbusting smackdown pluralistic.net/2020/10/07/goo…

#1yrago Hackers can remotely lock IoT cock-cages pluralistic.net/2020/10/07/goo…

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Yesterday's threads: We paid to develop Merck's covid pill; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1445788685232787461

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

One-month, $30 audiobook bundle with all three Little Brother books:

sowl.co/uqT2G

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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-…

* Walled Culture


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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.

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

medium.com/@doctorow/hope…

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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: @jstruan (superpunch.net), @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), @CreativeCommons (creativecommons.org/blog/).

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