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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped; All of science gets a general index; Europe's trustbusters lose the plot; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/cli…

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This is (probably) the last installment of Pluralistic in all its form until mid-Nov; I'm leaving for an overseas family holiday to see our relatives in a few hours and unless something really urgent happens, I'll probably not be back until we return and shake off the jetlag. 2/

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 3/

The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped: But here's the bad news...

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1453745177026236422

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All of science gets a general index: For your text-mining pleasure, courtesy of Carl Malamud and Public Resource.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1453753539726094341

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Europe's trustbusters lose the plot: Filternet, made in Europe.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1453763423800594437

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#20yrsago RIAA claims it never compared downloading to terrorism, demands apology web.archive.org/web/2001110203…

#15yrsago Going Under: moving kids’ novel memex.craphound.com/2006/10/26/goi…

#10yrsago Toronto mayor confronted by comedy interviewer calls 911, reportedly shouts “You bitches! 7/

Don’t you fucking know? I’m Rob fucking Ford, the mayor of this city! joeydevilla.com/2011/10/27/im-…

#10yrsago SOPA: US House of Reps copyright bill proposes national censorship, attacks on hosting services, Twitter, YouTube eff.org/deeplinks/2011… 8/

#10yrsago Canon of St Paul’s resigns over plans to evict Occupy London theguardian.com/world/2011/oct…

#5yrsago UK MPs realise that age filtering won’t work so now they just want to block all porn in the UK openrightsgroup.org/blog/now-we-wa… 9/

#5yrsago The Pirate Party are poised to form Iceland’s government in Saturday’s election qz.com/817784/iceland…

#1yrago Comcast v Comcast pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea…

#1yrago Monopolies Suck pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea… 10/

#1yrago The president's extraordinary powers pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/pea… 11/

Yesterday's threads: Hospital rings up $2755 upcharge by sending pregnant woman to ER; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1453418075248906243

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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 13/

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… 14/

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/ 15/

Upcoming appearances:

* 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…

* Anti-Dystopian Congress (@GoetheInstitut), Nov 10-12
goethe.de/ins/sk/de/kul/… 16/

Recent appearances:

* Seize the Means of Computation (@InternetArchive):


* Making Money (@DIDiscworld)
desertislanddiscworld.com/episodes/6-1-c…

* Reconciling Social Media & Democracy, @TechPolicyPress
techpolicy.press/podcast/ 17/

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… 18/

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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. 20/

My latest @Medium column is "The Traitorous Eight and the Battle of Germanium Valley," How California's ban on non-competes saved the tech industry from eugenics.

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Today's top sources: @Slashdot (slashdot.org). 25/