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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Fintech is a scam, a listicle in eight parts; Teaching thread management with puzzle games; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/12/01/sat…

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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/

Fintech is a scam, a listicle in eight parts: $91.5b/year, doubling every year.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1466107122131816449

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Teaching thread management with puzzle games: Rocky's Boots, 2021 edition.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1466115613059956742

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#20yrsago The Time Cube web.archive.org/web/2001113017…

#20yrsago RuPaul launches a blog web.archive.org/web/2001112610…

#15yrsago MPAA wants the right to commit fraud wired.com/2006/12/mpaa-k…

#15yrsago MPAA: it’s OK to copy movies if you keep them in a vault web.archive.org/web/2006101920… 6/

#15yrsago Edgar Bronfman Jr's piracy liabilities should wipe him out (but won't) web.archive.org/web/2006120521… 7/

#10yrsago Moving House, sweet picture book about a house that lobbies to keep its family from moving out memex.craphound.com/2011/11/30/mov…

#10yrsago Twitter buys secure communications company that helped hack the Arab Spring wired.com/2011/11/twitte… 8/

#10yrsago Study: Bandwidth hogs aren’t responsible for peak network congestion hyperorg.com/blogger/2011/1…

#10yrsago San Diego police arrest congressional candidate for voter registration in Civic Center Plaza 9/

#10yrsago Croatian transparency activists publish enormous database of government procurements, pointing the way to detecting corruption and fraud web.archive.org/web/2011112923…

#5yrsago Children synthesize $2 version of Martin Shkreli’s $750 malaria drug smh.com.au/technology/mar… 10/

#5yrsago Canada’s music lobby admits WIPO Internet Treaty drafters were “just guessing” michaelgeist.ca/2016/12/music-…

#5yrsago EFF battles misleading, sloppy, secret FBI warrants aimed at the Internet Archive and CREDO eff.org/deeplinks/2016… 11/

#5yrsago The hacker who took over San Francisco’s Muni got hacked krebsonsecurity.com/2016/11/san-fr…

#1yrago Attack Surface in the New York Times pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/sel…

#1yrago Ohio spends tax dollars to destroy Ohio pluralistic.net/2020/12/01/aut…

#1yrago RÄT pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/sel… 12/

#1yrago Open law and the rule of law pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/sel…

#1yrago Twitter is more redeemable than Facebook pluralistic.net/2020/11/30/sel… 13/

Monday's threads: The once and future mass-resignation and what it means for working people; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1465364597926416392

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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… 15/

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… 16/

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/ 17/

Upcoming appearances:

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

* Competition and Regulation in Disrupted Times, Dec 16
cra-brusselsconference.com 18/

Recent appearances:

* Redistribute the Internet (@NGIForward Summit)
vimeo.com/651018259

* NFTs (Upstream)
soundcloud.com/upstreampodcas…

* Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology (ACM-USTPC):
acm.org/public-policy/… 19/

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… 20/

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My latest Medium column is "Give Me Slack":

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