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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: McKinsey For Kids (no, really); Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/02/15/man…

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This coming weekend (Feb 18-20) I'm a (virtual) guest at the @boskonenews sf convention. I'm doing several panels and my first-ever reading from *Red Team Blues,* my coming novel from Tor Books.

schedule.boskone.org/people/29740 2/

McKinsey For Kids (no, really): Give us a child when they are seven and they are ours for life.

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Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags: A threat-model parable.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1493635893910986761

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#15yrsago Vancouver cops hate WiFi web.archive.org/web/2007021703…

#10yrsago UK: yes, we kidnapped people and sent them to be tortured by Qaddafi, but you can’t sue us theguardian.com/world/2012/feb…

#5yrsago In the US and UK, retirement is only for the super-rich theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 5/

#5yrsago Scottish court: your neighbours owe you for the distress of pointing a CCTV at your back yard and recording your conversations techdirt.com/articles/20170…

#1yrago Billionaires think VR stops guillotines pluralistic.net/2021/02/15/uly… 6/

Yesterday's threads: Podcasting Part II of "The Internet Heist"; Comprehensive synthesis of the technological, ecological and political critique of blockchainism; Eating invasive species; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1493300703443537926

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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."

craphound.com/shop/ 10/

Upcoming appearances:

* @boskonenews 59 (Feb 18-20)
schedule.boskone.org/people/29740

* 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:

* Bringing Back Luddites (@OhNoPodcast)
ohnopodcast.com/investigations…

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

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

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 13/

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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: "An Open Letter to Pixsy CEO Kain Jones, Who Keeps Sending Me Legal Threats"

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Today's top sources: Crypto-gram (schneier.com/crypto-gram/, @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 19/