Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Hospital beds are a monopoly; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/01/05/hil…

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Note: I'm having my (other) hip replaced on Jan 11 and I've got a LOT of work to clear up between now and then. This may (or may not!) be the last edition of Pluralistic until I'm recovered from the surgery. 2/

Hospital beds are a monopoly: The casket to hospital bed monopoly pipeline.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1478763587661451269

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#15yrsago Doonesbury: the GW Bush years memex.craphound.com/2007/01/05/doo…

#5yrsago Around the world, old, rural voters count more than young people in cities users.polisci.umn.edu/~dsamuels/BJPS… 4/

#5yrsago America’s gargantuan new corporate landlords evict the shit out of Americans bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#5yrsago 4chan’s trumpist trolls are exploiting the Ghost Ship fire to narc out other DIY venues vice.com/en/article/d7j… 5/

#1yrago Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers" pluralistic.net/2021/01/05/man…

#1yrago Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism pluralistic.net/2021/01/05/man… 6/

Yesterday's threads: Science fiction is a Luddite literature; Neal Stephenson's 'Termination Shock'; Stellar images of quack exercise machines; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1478415961384525830

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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.

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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:

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* Privacy, online platforms & misinformation (@NorthSec_io 2021)
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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.

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My latest @Medium column is "The Internet Heist (Part I): The early days of the war to control the future"

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