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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: A(nother) massive Swiss banking leak; The people's disruption; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/02/21/con…

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This week, I'm on two online panels about #Web3 and activism.

Feb 22
The Policy Implications of Web3/@StanfordCyber:
cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/policy-…

Feb 24
Web3 for Activists: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong (@fightfortheftr/@Amnesty)
amnestyusa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 2/

A(nother) massive Swiss banking leak: Sunshine won't disinfect anything on its own.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1495617734545182725

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The people's disruption: Tech rights are workers' rights.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1495624284852662272

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#20yrsago Science fiction without the future web.archive.org/web/2002030522…

#20yrsago Vegas is decadent again web.archive.org/web/2002021522…

#20yrsago Thin-skinned Mike Harris brings $15m libel suit against the Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/news/national/… 5/

#20yrsago The Betamax decision, demystified people.well.com/user/doctorow/…

#15yrsago Odeo for sale web.archive.org/web/2007022205…

#15yrsago Pay-per-use electricity in Dallas/Fort-Worth airport flickr.com/photos/doctoro… 6/

#15yrsago MSU forces students to watch RIAA videos web.archive.org/web/2007022304…

#15yrsago Understanding what a progam can do freedom-to-tinker.com/2007/02/21/why…

#10yrsago Leaked climate-change denial lobby docs came from water scientist desmog.com/2012/02/14/hea… 7/

#5yrsago It’s very hard to maintain an anonymous Twitter account that can withstand government-level attempts to de-anonymize it theintercept.com/2017/02/20/how… 8/

#5yrsago “Europe’s last dictator” finally finds the limits to power: taxing the unemployed during a recession reuters.com/article/us-bel…

#5yrsago A Clinton-era tech law has quietly, profoundly redefined the very nature of property in the IoT age vice.com/en/article/qkx… 9/

#1yrago The Paltrow-Industrial Complex: How Goop is cashing in on covid pluralistic.net/2021/02/21/pal…

#1yrago Facebook vs Australia: It's not a link-tax, it's collective bargaining pluralistic.net/2021/02/21/pal… 10/

#1yrago K-shaped recovery vs wealth taxes: Evita's spectre is haunting Argentina pluralistic.net/2021/02/21/pal…

#1yrago Tech trustbusting's moment has arrived pluralistic.net/2021/02/20/esc… 11/

Saturday's threads: Pluralistic is two; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1495063226551308291

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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… 13/

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… 14/

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/ 15/

Upcoming appearances:

* The Policy Implications of Web3/@StanfordCyber, Feb 22:
cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/policy-…

* Web3 for Activists: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong (@fightfortheftr/@Amnesty), Feb 24:
amnestyusa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 16/

Recent appearances:

* Big Tech & Surveillance Capitalism (@shaunattwood):


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

* The End of Uber (@TheWarOnCars)
thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the… 17/

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… 18/

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My latest @Medium column is: "We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one"

doctorow.medium.com/we-should-not-… 21/

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Today's top sources: Bruce Schneier (schneier.com). 24/