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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Grappling with Big Wrestling; Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down; and more!

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Grappling with Big Wrestling: Vince McMahon has a monopoly on violence.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1488216730090491908

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Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down: Pixsy and the depravity of speculative invoicing.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1488231563477364739

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#20yrsago How audio CD DRM works web.archive.org/web/2004022910…

#10yrsago Scientists and scholars boycott Elsevier over bad business practices and copyright maximalism thecostofknowledge.com

#10yrsago DRM is to publishing as junk science was to Stalinism publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/co… 4/

#10yrsago Judge: to ask for anonymity in porno copyright troll case, you must enter your name into the public record eff.org/press/releases…

#5yrsago Trump’s favorite voter fraud expert is registered to vote in three states apnews.com/article/donald… 5/

#5yrsago Six Wakes: a locked-room science fiction murder mystery, delightfully confounded by cloning and memory backups memex.craphound.com/2017/01/31/six…

#1yrago Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q pluralistic.net/2021/01/31/rhy… 6/

Yesterday's threads: The battle for Ring Zero; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1487892456494358528

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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… 8/

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… 9/

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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* @boskonenews 59 (Feb 18-20)
boskone.org/program/schedu…

* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical SF, 1950 to 1985 (@CityLightsBooks), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero…

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com 11/

Recent appearances:

* The End of Uber (@TheWarOnCars)
thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the…

* Moral Panic (@Drug_Science Podcast)
drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-mor…

* @HappenHerePod
iheart.com/podcast/1119-i… 12/

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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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. 15/

My latest @Medium column is "The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties"

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