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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: A New York law to end to Wall Street's pension ripoff; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/05/05/meg…

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CORRECTION: Yesterday's thread erroneously claimed Simon Lovell had passed away; I misremembered my contribution to a 2015 medical fundraiser for Mr Lovell as a donation to a funeral fundraiser. My sincere apologies to Mr Lovell (and I'm delighted to learn I was wrong!). 2/

This weekend (May 6-8), I'm Guest of Honor at the @DemiConDM 33 science fiction convention in #DesMoines:

demicon.org/33/programming… 3/

A New York law to end to Wall Street's pension ripoff: The ex-suckers flip the card table.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1522224568114556928

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Hey look at this

* How to Get an Abortion in the Age of Surveillance gizmodo.com/how-to-get-an-…

* Hot Banana what-if.xkcd.com/158/ (just look at it)

* Digital Security and Privacy Tips for Those Involved in Abortion Access eff.org/deeplinks/2022… 5/

#20yrsago Shopsin's Restaurant finally allows a review web.archive.org/web/2002042604…

#10yrsago Lost trove of D&D co-creator unearthed, up for auction wired.com/2012/05/geekda…

#10yrsago Jonathan Lethem discusses his tribute to Talking Heads’ Fear of Music wired.com/2012/05/jonath… 6/

#10yrsago Aerial view of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion facade and ride-building …gforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2012/05/ghostl…

#10yrsago UK nightclub bouncers demanding access to your Facebook profile as a condition of entry bbc.com/news/newsbeat-… 7/

#10yrsago Tribute to Disneyland’s “secret restroom” secretrestroom.com

#5yrsago Teacher: Jostens Yearbook is a giant scam that stole from our school for years np.reddit.com/r/Teachers/com… 8/

#5yrsago Flint threatens to take away 8,000 families’ homes for failure to pay bills for poisoned water nbc25news.com/news/local/fli…

#5yrsago Michigan students stage sit-in in solidarity with laid-off teachers wxyz.com/news/students-… 9/

#5yrsago My column about @Snowden, surveillance and WALKAWAY in the International Business Times ibtimes.com/unchecked-surv…

#1yrago Stimmies killed the McJob: Job creators hate him pluralistic.net/2021/05/05/cla… 10/

Yesterday's threads: The eye-glazing scam of Medicare drug plans; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1521867905889091585

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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… 12/

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… 13/

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:

* @DemiConDM 33 (Des Moines), May 6-8
demicon.org/33/programming…

* Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech (@imaginationASU), May 12
asu.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 15/

Upcoming appearances:

* @openjsf Keynote (Austin), Jun 8
events.linuxfoundation.org/openjs-world/p…

* @CMAgovUK Data Technology/Analytics (London), Jun 15-16
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-tec…

* A New @HOPEconf (NYC), Jul 24
hope.net 16/

Recent appearances:

* Revolutionizing Activism — The Power of Utopia (@theC4AA)


* A Little Patience and a Lot of Tape (@TWIT)
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…

* Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 (@forlifeitself podcast)
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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… 18/

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My latest Medium column is "End-To-End Encryption is Too Important to Be Proprietary"

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