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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: "The Swerve"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/07/05/gra…

#Pluralistic 1/ A broken bridge over a mysterious chasm.
Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

clarionwriteathon.com/members/profil… 2/
"The Swerve": My Locus column on hope in the dark.

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Hey look at this

* How to save lives and avoid privacy apocalypse ft.com/content/fa2683… (h/t @TimHarford)

* Craft beer uses recycled sewage theguardian.com/world/2022/jul… (h/t my mom)

* Valedictorian Rips Into Erosion Of Public Education popularresistance.org/lausd-high-sch… (h/t my dad) 4/
#20yrsago Themepark queues and traffic-shaping web.archive.org/web/2002071313…

#20yrsago Parasitic computing proof uses JavaScript to compel computation web.archive.org/web/2003120303…

#20yrsago Shredding Hollywood’s digital television FUD web.archive.org/web/2002070814… 5/
#20yrsago What is Palladium? What is the area of a Moebius Strip? web.archive.org/web/2002090315…

#20yrsago @therealjanisian vs the RIAA web.archive.org/web/2002080208…

#15yrsago RIP, Fred Saberhagen locusmag.com/2007/2007NewsA… 6/
#15yrsago @lewisshiner’s short fiction online for free lewisshiner.com/liberation/man…

#15yrsago Me on CBC, talking Universal v. iTunes web.archive.org/web/2007072911… 7/
#10yrsago Meet the legions of wingnuts who think Andy Griffith was a communist and want him to burn in hell theblaze.com/tag/report-and…

#10yrsago Team Human: a high-school vampire novel doesn’t suck (it rocks) memex.craphound.com/2012/07/03/tea… 8/
#10yrsago Karl Marx on a MasterCard npr.org/sections/money…

#10yrsago Fretting about Facebook, 17th century style tomstandage.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/the…

#10yrsago @TheWELL users pledge more than $100K to community buyout nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/07/wi… 9/
#10yrsago @MrChuckD’s rules for the music business craphound.com/images/ChuckDs…

#10yrsago @EFF weighs in on Charles Carreon’s latest dumb stunt eff.org/deeplinks/2012…

#10yrsago Charles Carreon: “Mission accomplished” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 10/
#10yrsago Chinese-built ghost town in Angola – the first of many to come? bbc.com/news/world-afr…

#10yrsago #ACTA IS DEAD (ish) (for now) web.archive.org/web/2012070703…

#10yrsago Why we still fight about music and copyright on the Internet locusmag.com/2012/07/cory-d… 11/
#5yrsago AT&T: it’s not “forced arbitration” because no one forced you to have broadband arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago California has so much solar power it has to pay Arizona to use its excess energy latimes.com/projects/la-fi… 12/
#5yrsago Now any Floridian can ask to have public schools’ science and literary curriculum censored web.archive.org/web/2017050100…

#5yrsago A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: DNA, individuals, and species memex.craphound.com/2017/07/03/a-b… 13/
#5yrsago Celebrate Independence Day with @mc_frontalot’s nerdcore rap about free software vs open source

#5yrsago Dominic Cummings thought up the Brexit Bus and its NHS lie, now says referendum was a “dumb idea” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… 14/
#5yrsago Vidangel is a stupid censorship service and we should welcome it anyway wired.com/story/vidangel…

#5yrsago For sale: any Australian’s full health record for a mere $22 theguardian.com/australia-news… 15/
#5yrsago Bloomberg: Middle-class Americans were “fleeced” by neoliberalism bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

#5yrsago In the 1990s, a Serbian biology textbook used a still from Raising Arizona for its cover art avclub.com/nicolas-cage-w… 16/
#5yrsago Mom feared being beaten by United crew, so she didn’t complain when her son’s seat was given away hawaiinewsnow.com/story/35811846…

#5yrsago Debullshitifying the free speech debate about CNN and Trump’s alt-right wrestling GIF popehat.com/2017/07/05/cnn… 17/
#1yrago Podcasting "Self Publishing": My column on monopolism, publishing, and the fortunes of authors pluralistic.net/2021/07/05/ide…

#1yrago Conspiracy fantasy: The political significance and personal appeal of conspiratorialism pluralistic.net/2021/07/05/ide… 18/
#1yrago The future is symmetrical: Broadband netizens vs asymmetrical mouse-potatoes pluralistic.net/2021/07/03/bea…

#1yrago Biden admin orders an end to surprise ER billing pluralistic.net/2021/07/02/spo… 19/
Friday's threads: After inflation, the whip-crack; and more!

20/ Image: Lars Frantzen (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.or
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… 21/
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… 22/
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/ 23/
Upcoming appearances:

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

* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
defcon.org/html/defcon-30… 24/
Recent appearances:

* @CMAgovUK Data, Technology and Analytics Conference:


* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event… 25/
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… 26/
You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2022/07/05/gra… 27/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com. 28/
My latest Medium column is "Shovel-Ready: A half-to-three-quarters-baked idea to fix capitalism"

doctorow.medium.com/shovel-ready-3…

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If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "👍🏾". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people.

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Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

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