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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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.
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. 19/
My latest Medium column is "Divination: How the Tim Powers method for secret histories keeps my creative juices flowing"
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Conspiratorialism's weirdest idea is that word games are the key to uncovering secret plots. As @kenchengcomedy points out, it's very weird that antivaxers are obsessed with the fact that "delta" and "omicron" are an anagram for "media control."
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
As Chang says, "do they think the coronavirus was invented by Tom Marvolo Riddle?" And yet, sometimes, villains really *do* use word-games to tip their hands. 3/