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Inside: Ryan North's 'How to Take Over the World'; and more!

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Ryan North's 'How to Take Over the World': Popular science as a series of supervillainous thought-experiments.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1515433756617846789

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#20yrsago Goodbye, Damon Knight memex.craphound.com/2002/04/15/goo…

#20yrsago Patrick Nielsen Hayden on Damon Knight web.archive.org/web/2002060913…

#20yrsago How the RIAA cooked the books web.archive.org/web/2002060613… 3/

#15yrsago April 23 is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day web.archive.org/web/2007051500…

#15yrsago Women outnumber men online web.archive.org/web/2007041521…

#15yrsago Sao Paulo goes advertising-free flickr.com/photos/tonydem… 4/

#10yrsago London’s dystopian Olympics: criminal sanctions for violating the exclusivity of sponsors’ brands theguardian.com/sport/2012/apr…

#10yrsago Canada Post sues crowdsourced postal-code database, claims copyright in Canadian postal-codes web.archive.org/web/2012041603… 5/

#10yrsago Sergei Brin on the existential crisis of the net: walled gardens + snooping governments theguardian.com/technology/201… 6/

#5yrsago David Dao’s injuries: concussion, two front teeth knocked out, broken nosehttps://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-live-stream-david-dao-presser-20170413-story.html 7/

#5yrsago Masterprints: synthetic fingerprints that unlock up to 65% of phones (in theory) nytimes.com/2017/04/10/tec…

#5yrsago The IRS deliberately targeted innocents for civil forfeiture program that stole millions from Americans treasury.gov/tigta/press/pr… 8/

#5yrsago The latest NSA dump from the Shadow Brokers tells you how to break into banks arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago Blockers will win the ad-blocking arms race randomwalker.info/publications/a…

#1yrago Murder Offsets: Greenwashing will kill us all pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for… 9/

#1yrago People's Choice Communications: An ISP owned by striking Charter works that diverts profits to its customers pluralistic.net/2021/04/16/whe…

#1yrago $100m deli made $35k in 2019/20 pluralistic.net/2021/04/16/whe… 10/

#1yrsago Mass-action lawsuit against Facebook: Digital Rights Ireland wants to make the other GDPR shoe drop pluralistic.net/2021/04/16/whe… 11/

Wednesday's threads: America's 400 top earners pay less tax than you; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1514283470750683137

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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.

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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:

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Signed copies here:
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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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* Wikiworkshop, Apr 25
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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.

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My latest @Medium column is "Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content: It’s Stealing Their Money"

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