Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers; Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware; India funded a starving kids' app, but not food; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/the…

#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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Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers: "Resubscribe or we'll keep trashing your credit report."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1448105052816621570

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Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware: A free-as-in-surveillance-free Flash installer is gone thanks to a bogus copyright claim.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1448308511838932993

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India funded a starving kids' app, but not food: Solutionism at its worst.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1448325310647205892

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#10yrsago Ryanair declares war on bodily fluids, vows to remove toilets independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

#10yrsago Agatha H and the Airship City: Girl Genius book is a cross between a comic and a prose novel memex.craphound.com/2011/10/13/aga…

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#5yrsago Bob Dylan is the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for literature csmonitor.com/Books/2016/101…

#5yrsago Hungary’s Prime Minister shuts down opposition press, then goes after everyone else theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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#5yrsago Talking about Allan Sherman on the Comedy on Vinyl podcast stolendress.com/comedyonvinyl/…

#5yrsago AI’s blind spot: garbage in, garbage out nature.com/articles/53831…

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#5yrsago Wells Fargo’s new CEO previously denied that the bank’s sales culture had any problems consumerist.com/2016/10/13/new…

#1yrago SF as intuition pump pluralistic.net/2020/10/13/hop…

#1yrago Beyond Cyberpunk pluralistic.net/2020/10/13/hop…

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Yesterday's threads: This Thing Between Us, a neck-hair-stand-up cuycuy horror; There are no corporate criminals in America; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1447994803979833344

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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:

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

* Lessons from the First Internet Ages (@knightfdn) Nov 2-3
blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/…

* 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 @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 "Dead Letters," how the spam wars and corporate concentration killed open email.

medium.com/@doctorow/dead…

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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: The @Verge (theverge.com), @jijinjohn (twitter.com/jijinjohn), @Slashdot (slashdot.org).

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