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Jul 26, 2022 • 23 tweets • 20 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: "A Half-Built Garden"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/07/26/ais…

#Pluralistic 1/
This Saturday (July 30) at 3PM, I will be reading and signing my picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" at the @DarkDel booth at @MidsummerScream in #LongBeach, CA:

midsummerscream.org 2/
Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "The Bezzle" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

clarionwriteathon.com/members/profil… 3/
"A Half-Built Garden": Ruthanna Emrys's stunning First Contact novel.

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Hey look at this

* Starred @PublishersWkly review for Chokepoint Capitalism publishersweekly.com/978-0-8070-070…

* @ConsumerReports is hiring public interest technologists (and others) digital-lab.consumerreports.org/2022/06/23/new…

* I Don’t Know What A Sympathetic Character Is Anymore tor.com/2022/07/20/i-d… 5/
#15yrsago Delusional UK millionaire leaves Tories fortune to fight sexually perverted pharmaceutical execs theguardian.com/uk/2007/jul/24…

#10yrsago Anti-Super-PAC Super PAC archive.nytimes.com/thecaucus.blog… 6/
#10yrsago DC police chief issues extremely excellent guidelines on citizens taking pictures of cops arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago Paper Girls volume 3: the all-girl, time-traveling Stranger Things gets even better memex.craphound.com/2017/07/26/pap… 7/
#5yrsago American wages are so low, the robots don’t want your job nytimes.com/2017/07/25/ups…

#5yrsago Leaked memo details Koch Bros’ astroturf strategy to lower US corporate tax rate theintercept.com/2017/07/26/koc… 8/
#5yrsago China forces Xinjiang Uyghurs to install mobile spyware, enforces with stop-and-frisk bleepingcomputer.com/news/governmen…

#5yrsago Roomba wants to sell the maps of the inside of your home it created while cleaning reuters.com/article/us-iro… 9/
#5yrsago Escaping prison with D&D vice.com/en/article/pad…

#1yrago Surge pricing violates antitrust law pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/agg…

#1yrago Oregon's carbon offsets go up in smoke pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/agg… 10/
#1yrago Disney parks and aggregate demand management pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/agg…

#1yrago Charter schools are money laundries pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/agg… 11/
Yesterday's threads: Why none of my books are available on Audible; Sarah Gailey's "Just Like Home"; and more!

12/ Image: Paris 16 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wi
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:

* @MidsummerScream (Long Beach), Jul 30
midsummerscream.org

* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
defcon.org/html/defcon-30… 16/
Recent appearances:

* Closing keynote, a New @HopeConf (@2600)


* Bricking Tractors (Inside Agri-Turf)
inside-agriturf.captivate.fm/episode/bricki…

* Blockchain, Bitcoin & Selling The Brooklyn Bridge (@MMTPodcast):
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/135-cory-docto… 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/
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/2022/07/26/ais… 19/
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. 20/
My latest @Medium column is "Dare to Know: What if knowing the exact date of your death was a luxury good?"

doctorow.medium.com/dare-to-know-9… 21/
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 22/
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… 23/

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The American Dream, such as it is, used to be *two* dreams, one based on work and solidarity, the other on asset appreciation and disconnected individualism. We killed the first one.

1/ A rotting apartment living room; the Wall Street 'Charging Bull' statue is in one corner; from one of its horns dangles a sign reading 'FOR RENT WALL ST.' Through a crumbling doorway, we see an aristocrat laid out on a guillotine, about to be beheaded. Image: Sam Valadi (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/132084522@N05/17086570218/ Carlos Delgado (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_-_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg
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As the New Deal gave way to the post-war social safety net, Americans discovered two paths to social mobility: they could join a union, and they could buy a home. Joining a union meant that your wages would rise with productivity.

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Denise Prudhomme's bosses at Wells Fargo insisted that the in-person camaraderie of their offices warranted a mandatory return-to-office policy, but when she died at her desk in her Tempe, AZ office, no one noticed for four days.

1/ A medieval drawing of a horrible torture chamber in which men are being tormented by various diabolical machines. On the wall hangs a poster reading 'LATE AGAIN! Dependable workers are on the job.' Through the window peers an impatient man in a sixties vintage executive suit, clutching a sheaf of papers and scowling at his watch. Behind him is the nighttime Manhattan skyline.
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That was in August. Now, Wells Fargo United has published a statement on her death, one that vibrates with anger at the callously selective surveillance that Wells Fargo inflicts on its workforce:



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In Canto 20 of *Inferno*, Dante confronts a pit where the sinners have had their heads twisted around backwards; they trudge, naked and weeping, through puddles of cooling tears.

1/ Giovanni Stradano's 1587 illustration of Canto 20 of Dante's *Inferno*, depicting the fortunetellers in the 4th Bolgia (pit) their heads rotated 180' on their necks, forced ever to walk in circles, looking backwards.
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Virgil informs him that these are the fortunetellers, who tried to look forwards in life and now must look backwards forever.

In a completely unrelated subject, how about those election pollsters, huh?

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Terminal-stage capitalism owes its long senescence to its defensive mechanisms, and it's only by defeating these that we can put it out of its misery. "The Shield of Boringness" is one of the necrocapitalist's most effective defenses, so it behooves us to attack it head-on.

1/ A Rube Goldberg machine for feeding a man soup. It has been placed against a background of scattered, assorted pills. In the foreground, along the bottom of the frame, are loosely stacked, bundled US one hundred dollar bills. Beside them stands a miniature caricature of a capitalist, holding a bulging, dollar-sign-emblazoned sack. Image: Flying Logos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Over_$1,000,000_dollars_in_USD_$100_bill_stacks.png CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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The Shield of Boringness is Dana Claire's extremely useful term for anything so dull that you simply can't hold any conception of it in your mind for any length of time.

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Broadly speaking, the role of an establishment economist is to come up with new ways of saying, "actually, your boss is right."

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