Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Cuban vaccines; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/28/som…

#Pluralistic 1/
Are you going to San Diego @Comic_Con? Me too!

* I'll be signing at the @MystGalaxyBooks Booth (#1325) today from 12-12:45PM

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

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The Cuban vaccines: Omicron, vaccine apartheid, WTO TRIPS waivers and the false hope of viruses "gentling" themselves.

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#20yrsago Cybiko PDA looks like a scientific calculator designed by HR Giger web.archive.org/web/2001120421…

#20yrago Footage of the real Christopher Robin in a Pooh suit news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertain… 4/
#15yrsago Russia saves to US Trade Rep's brutal conditions for WTO membership web.archive.org/web/2006120507…

#10yrsago Alan Moore talks V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks theguardian.com/books/2011/nov…

#10yrsago How the tax code works for billionaires nytimes.com/2011/11/27/bus… 5/
#10yrsago One percenter asks: “Have You Ever Heard of Anybody Great That’s Come Out of the 99 Percent?” web.archive.org/web/2011113023…

#10yrsago Secret records of US bank bailout released, over howls of protest bloomberg.com/news/articles/… 6/
#5yrsago The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history web.archive.org/web/2016112715…

#5yrsago Donald Trump didn’t kill the TPP – activism did theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 7/
#5yrsago Ransomware creep accidentally hijacks San Francisco Muni, won’t give it back sfgate.com/bayarea/articl…

#5yrsago Amid a media blackout of the Standing Rock protests, law enforcement targets the rare journalists on the scene theintercept.com/2016/11/27/arr… 8/
Friday's threads: UK ICO: surveillance advertising is dead; and more!

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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… 10/
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… 11/
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/ 12/
Upcoming appearances:

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

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

* Competition and Regulation in Disrupted Times, Dec 16
cra-brusselsconference.com 13/
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… 15/
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Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2021/11/28/som… 16/
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… 17/
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Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 18/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 19/
Today's top sources: @NakedCapitalism (nakedcapitalism.com). 20/

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The once and future mass-resignation and what it means for working people; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/11/29/ord…

#Pluralistic 1/ Image
I'm going overseas for work on Dec 7, which means time to order signed/personalized copies of my books from @DarkDel is running out!

Attack Surface:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co…

Little Brother/Homeland:
darkdel.com/store/p1750/Co… 2/
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Co…

Poesy the Monster Slayer:
darkdel.com/store/p1562/_P… 3/
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Once upon a time, a terrible disease swept the lands, prompting a great wave of resignations as low-waged workers walked off the job, rejecting offers of pay raises that would have been unthinkably lavish just a few years earlier. Their bosses went nuts. 1/ A worn VHS copy of 'Take Th...
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The former employers of these workers slammed them as lazy and greedy, and called upon their fellow bougies to take up "unskilled" labor and scab those proles back into the workplace. When that didn't work, they passed laws that banned desperate bosses from bidding up wages. 3/
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29 Nov
Oh yeah, you blend.

My Cousin Vinny (1992) Dir. Jonathan Lynn
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Oh yeah, you blend.

My Cousin Vinny (1992) Dir. Jonathan Lynn
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Oh yeah, you blend.

My Cousin Vinny (1992) Dir. Jonathan Lynn
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Are you low-key freaking out about #omicron? Yeah, me too. Can't we catch a break?

Maybe.

Step one to preventing new, scarier mutant strains is to reduce the number of infected people, which require a mix of ventilation, masking, distancing, and, of course, vaccinations. 1/ The Cuban flag, with its red triangle replaced with the red
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These days, the "vaccine controversy" is primarily about vaccine-hesitancy and vaccine denial - that is, about people who can get the vaccine but choose not to. 3/
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28 Nov
Suzy, do you know anything about… witches?

Suspiria (1977), dir. Dario Argento
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Suzy, do you know anything about… witches?

Suspiria (1977), dir. Dario Argento
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Suzy, do you know anything about… witches?

Suspiria (1977), dir. Dario Argento
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