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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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

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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.

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"A Half-Built Garden": Ruthanna Emrys's stunning First Contact novel.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1551748954089480193

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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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1551584566208610304

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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… 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.

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My latest @Medium column is "Dare to Know: What if knowing the exact date of your death was a luxury good?"

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