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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The cruelty isn't the point; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/03/09/tur…

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Tomorrow (Mar 10), I'm on a #RightToRepair panel in honor of the special "War on Repair" issue of @Make: magazine:

makezine.com/2022/03/07/vol… 2/

The cruelty isn't the point: The point is power.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1501584385354649609

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#20yrsago Rob Ford: dead cyclists have themselves to blame! web.archive.org/web/2008070411…

#10yrsago Infographic: Charter Cable’s dirty tricks to kill community broadcast muninetworks.org/content/charte… 4/

#10yrsago TSA body-scanner guy says TSA is “strongly cautioning” reporters not to write about him professional-troublemaker.com/2012/03/08/bre…

#10yrsago Arizona Senate votes to let anti-abortion docs lie to pregnant women azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/03/0… 5/

#5yrsago Bunnie Huang’s tour-de-force “Hardware Hacker” memex.craphound.com/2017/03/09/bun…

#5yrsago Senate Republicans introduce resolution ensuring ISPs don’t need your permission to sell your private data and SSN arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 6/

#5yrsago The grueling emotional labor of an open source maintainer nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/wha…

#5yrsago Uber’s “sharing economy” is really the “taking economy” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 7/

Yesterday's threads: How and why to break up Big Tech; The Dawn of Everything; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1501290430654255113

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Hey look at this

* Zelensky's "Servant of the People" sitcom, with English subtitles (h/t @DavidIsen) 9/

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… 10/

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… 11/

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:

* @make Vol 80 launch party (Mar 10)
makezine.com/2022/03/07/vol…

* Competition & Regulation in Disrupted Times (@News_CRA/Brussels), Mar 31
cra-brusselsconference.com

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
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Recent appearances:

* Safety Orange (@TWIT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…

* Seize the Means of Computation (Boston Computation Club)

castro.fm/episode/cBq9TF

* Policy Implications of Web3 (@StanfordCyber)
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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.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 15/

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My latest Medium column is: "What is 'Peak Indifference?'"

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