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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: UK ICO: surveillance advertising is dead; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/26/ico…

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Are you going to San Diego Comic-Con? Me too!

* I'll be signing at the Mysterious Galaxy Booth (#1325) on Sunday from 12-12:45PM

* And I'll be on a panel, The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right, on Sunday from 1:30-230PM

eventeny.com/events/comicco… 2/

UK ICO: surveillance advertising is dead: A true consent framework would do the trick.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1464309937627185153

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#10yrsago Interrogation of Byron Sonne, Toronto G20 hacker on trumped up charges for mocking G20 security web.archive.org/web/2011112823…

#5yrsago Chestburster roast turkey bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3415757/… 4/

#5yrsago Malcolm McLaren’s son torched his punk collection to protest the 40th anniversary of punk “celebrations” bbc.com/news/uk-381204… 5/

Yesterday's threads: Unions are finally fighting two-tier contracts; McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1463941637327970311

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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… 7/

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… 8/

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/ 9/

Upcoming appearances:

* The Kids Are (Kinda) All Right (San Diego @Comic_Con), Nov 28
eventeny.com/events/comicco…

* Redistribute the Internet (@NGIForward Summit), Nov 30
summit.ngi.eu/programme#day2

* @intgovforum (Warsaw), Dec 10
intgovforum.org/en/schedule/20… 10/

Recent appearances:

* NFTs (@UpstreamPodcast)
soundcloud.com/upstreampodcas…

* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-@USTPC):
acm.org/public-policy/…

* Alternative recommender systems in the DSA:
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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… 12/

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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 "Apple’s Right-to-Repair U-turn":

medium.com/@doctorow/appl… 14/

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Today's top sources: @slashdot (slashdot.org). 17/