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Inside: Welcome to the Palmerverse; SEC vs private equity ripoffs; Neuromancer today; Gators and Amazon tag-team small sellers; and more!
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Inside: Welcome to the Palmerverse; SEC vs private equity ripoffs; Neuromancer today; Gators and Amazon tag-team small sellers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/02/10/mon…
#Pluralistic 1/
Welcome to the Palmerverse: Ada Palmer's Renaissance-informed science fictional futurism.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/14918302517138718752/
SEC vs private equity ripoffs: Personnel really are policy.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/14918459800687165573/
Neuromancer today: Eileen Gunn on the enduring significance and wonder of William Gibson.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/14918704994791669764/
Gators and Amazon tag-team small sellers: Amazon's bad conduct is good for (a certain kind of) business.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/14918782771909795905/
#10yrsago Patent troll that claimed ownership over the Web loses its case wired.com/2012/02/intera…
#10yrsago Alan Moore explains the Guy Fawkes mask, Occupy, Anonymous and anti-ACTA protests bbc.com/news/technolog… 6/
#10yrsago Alan Moore explains the Guy Fawkes mask, Occupy, Anonymous and anti-ACTA protests bbc.com/news/technolog… 6/
#5yrsago Ukrainian MPs caught illegally casting multiple votes in Parliament. Again. globalvoices.org/2017/02/10/ukr…
#5yrsago A succinct, simple, excellent description of the problems of neoliberalism and their solution truthout.org/articles/expos… 7/
#5yrsago A succinct, simple, excellent description of the problems of neoliberalism and their solution truthout.org/articles/expos… 7/
#5yrsago Techdirt’s “I Invented Email” gear techdirt.com/articles/20170…
#1yrago Luxembourg: A criminal enterprise with a country attached pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk…
#1yrago Tory donors reap 100X return on campaign contributions pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk… 8/
#1yrago Luxembourg: A criminal enterprise with a country attached pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk…
#1yrago Tory donors reap 100X return on campaign contributions pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk… 8/
#1yrago Duke is academia's meanest trademark bully pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk…
#1yrago Crooked cops play music to kill livestreams pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk… 9/
#1yrago Crooked cops play music to kill livestreams pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duk… 9/
Yesterday's threads: Litigation finance pits greed against greed; Occupy the SEC on bank mergers; and more!
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/149149457445960089610/
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… 11/
Signed copies at @DarkDel:
darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 11/
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… 12/
onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…
Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 12/
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/ 13/
craphound.com/shop/ 13/
Upcoming appearances:
* Boskone 59 (Feb 18-20)
boskone.org/program/schedu…
* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (City Lights), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero…
* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com 14/
* Boskone 59 (Feb 18-20)
boskone.org/program/schedu…
* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (City Lights), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero…
* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com 14/
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… 15/
* 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… 15/
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… 16/
pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 16/
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My latest Medium column is "Crypto + Copyright = 🤡💩"
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My latest Medium column is "Crypto + Copyright = 🤡💩"
doctorow.medium.com/crypto-copyrig… 18/
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