Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Corporatism made Deere ripe for a strike; Copyfraudster censors investigation of covid gadget; At last, a new Econ 101 textbook; Podcasting "Dead Letters"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/18/lab…

#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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Corporatism made John Deere ripe for a strike: Optimized for failure.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1450114685605277702

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Copyfraudster censors investigation of implausible covid gadget: When a US law is used to censor Indian scientific reporting.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1450123668890087430

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At last, a new Econ 101 textbook: CORE's "The Economy" vs homo economicus.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1450136949327425537

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Podcasting "Dead Letters": Email could be the last federated internet technology - but it isn't.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1450143004711276547

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#20yrsago Linux on a Big Mouth Billy Bass fish web.archive.org/web/2001090223…

#15yrsago How pickpockets work web.archive.org/web/2007011002…

#10yrsago Advice to the 1% from Lemony Snicket occupywriters.com/works/by-lemon…

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#10yrsago Proposed Australian law makes it an offense to insult Gaming Minister Michael O’Brien web.archive.org/web/2012050716…

#10yrsago EU vs Facebook: Facebook’s dossiers on Europeans breach EU privacy laws identityblog.com/?p=1201

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#10yrsago Aloha From Hell: Sandman Slim goes back to Hell and kicks more ass memex.craphound.com/2011/10/18/alo…

#10yrsago Why are more people opting for legal name-changes than ever before? bbc.com/news/magazine-…

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#5yrsago Everything Belongs to the Future: a tale of pharmadystopian, immortal gerontocrats memex.craphound.com/2016/10/18/eve…

#5yrsago Wrong things that programmers believe, a curated list github.com/kdeldycke/awes…

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#5yrsago UK government proposes issuing Britons with unique porn-viewing ID numbers openrightsgroup.org/blog/a-databas…

#5yrsago Islamophobic terrorist cell planned a “bloodbath” in Kansas, wanted to kill Muslim babies washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…

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#5yrsago UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal says GHCQ illegally spied for 17 years https

#5yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson says Elon Musk’s Mars plan is a “1920s science-fiction cliché” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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#5yrsago Matt Taibbi on Trump’s “fury and failure” rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

#5yrsago Howard Stern won’t release Trump tapes billboard.com/articles/news/…

#1yrago Happy World Standards Day or not pluralistic.net/2020/10/18/mid…

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#5yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson says Elon Musk’s Mars plan is a “1920s science-fiction cliché” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago Matt Taibbi on Trump’s “fury and failure” rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

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#5yrsago Howard Stern won’t release Trump tapes billboard.com/articles/news/…

#1yrago Happy World Standards Day or not pluralistic.net/2020/10/18/mid…

#1yrago Educator sued for criticising "invigilation" tool pluralistic.net/2020/10/17/pro…

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Saturday's threads: The Chicago Tribune is being murdered before our eyes; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1449529030554767362

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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 (@Knightfndn), 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:

* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress
techpolicy.press/podcast/

* @InternetArchive:

https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1448785942852997120

* Trom:
videos.trom.tf/w/2vBxVQTa4hfC…

* This Week in Google
open.spotify.com/show/0lTcKFcbc…

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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 "Against the great forces of history," What @AdaPalmer’s University of Chicago Papal election LARP can teach us about our own future

medium.com/@doctorow/agai…

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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: @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), @MattFlood (twitter.com/mattflood).

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