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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Give Me Slack"; A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime"; IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/sol…

#Pluralistic

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I'm going overseas for work on Dec 8, 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…

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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Co…

Poesy the Monster Slayer:
darkdel.com/store/p1562/_P…

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Podcasting "Give Me Slack": On the parenting challenges of an era without second chances.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1468236632696528913

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A lexicon of euphemisms for "corporate crime": Compliance, risk, white collar crime...

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1468252436494176269

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IP lawyers weaponize trade secrecy to stall vaccine waivers: But Karan Menon has their number.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1468258667569070087

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#20yrsago Busting the WSJ’s FUD on open 802.11 networks web.archive.org/web/2002011122…

#20yrsago The post-PC interface web.archive.org/web/2002011816…

#20yrsago Chris Raettig on KPMG's linking legal threats web.archive.org/web/2002020714…

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#15yrsago Canada’s documentaries lost to copyright web.archive.org/web/2006120900…

#10yrsago Business Software Alliance fractures over SOPA support cnet.com/news/kaspersky…

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#10yrsago Planesrunner: Ian McDonald’s YA debut is full of action-packed multidimensional cool, airships, electropunk and quantum physics memex.craphound.com/2011/12/06/pla…

#10yrsago Petition to get a pardon for Turing’s “gross indecency” conviction web.archive.org/web/2012011018…

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#10yrsago Derek Kirk Kim’s Same Difference: slacker Korean-American kids come of age in the Bay Area memex.craphound.com/2011/12/07/der…

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#10yrsago On Jan 1, awesome stuff will enter the public domain: HG Wells, Gertrude Stein, Buster Keaton, Walt Disney, Lenny Bruce (but not in the USA) publicdomainreview.org/collection/cla…

#10yrsago AT&T is the worst carrier in America. Again. ibtimes.com/verizon-wirele…

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#5yrsago Mr Robot has driven a stake through the Hollywood hacker, and not a moment too soon technologyreview.com/2016/12/07/155…

#5yrsago Learning about the internal culture of the NSA from 262 leaked articles from its internal employee newsletter theintercept.com/2016/12/07/dro…

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#5yrsago The kickstarted Pebble smartwatch is now a division of Fitbit, so they may “reduce functionality” on all the watches they ever sold kickstarter.com/projects/59750…

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#5yrsago For two years, criminals stole sensitive information using malware hidden in individual pixels of ad banners welivesecurity.com/2016/12/06/rea…

#5yrsago Italy’s referendum: a vote against neoliberalism and authoritarianism jacobinmag.com/2016/12/italy-…

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#5yrsago Quitting Facebook feels GREAT mathbabe.org/2016/12/06/i-q…

#5yrsago Stop calling it “Puppy-Burning” — it’s the “Alt-Warmth Movement” mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-i…

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#5yrsago dj BC has your Christmas mashups covered with this year’s amazing Santastic holiday music sampler djbc.net/christmash/

#1yrago China’s war on big data backstabbing pluralistic.net/2020/12/07/bac…

#1yrago The largest strike in human history pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/sur…

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#1yrago Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/sur…

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Sunday's threads: When you hear "one size fits all," think "universal"; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1467535875701620746

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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…

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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:

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

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Recent appearances:

* Seize the Means of Computation (@SeaGL)
seagl.org/archive/2021/s…

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

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

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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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