Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Revenge of the Linkdumps; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/13/fou…

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Saturday (5/20), I'm at @GburgBookFest with *Red Team Blues*:

gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

5/22, I'm at @publicknowledge's Emerging Tech in #DC:

eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…

5/23, it's #Toronto for #WEPFest, w/@hockeyesque @RonDeibert & @DrNancyOlivieri:

westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…

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Revenge of the Linkdumps: Something for the weekend, sir?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1657496552724905985

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#20yrsago #WilWheaton’s book is out! web.archive.org/web/2003052018…

#20yrsago #EdwardTufte shreds PowerPoint edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp

#20yrsago #DRM is philosophically broken, too wired.com/2003/06/copy-p…

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#20yrsago New #PageRank optimization may pave way for idiosyncratic Google eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

#15yrsago Security guards threaten NPR photogs with arrest for shooting panorama of DC’s Union Station web.archive.org/web/2008051710…

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#15yrsago Warner/DC comics shuts down children’s cancer charity auction over trademark web.archive.org/web/2008051704…

#15yrsago @GratefulDead shake down NPR over including a song in an online mix npr.org/sections/monit…

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#15yrsago Analog switchoff == DRM screwjob tidbits.com/2008/05/12/dig…

#15yrsago US and EU commissioner trying (again!) to sneak #SoftwarePatents into Europe web.archive.org/web/2008051407…

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#15yrsago London supermarket secretly photographs alcohol/cigarette buyers, wants national database dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…

#15yrsago Canada’s #CrownCopyright: high-cost censorship thestar.com/business/2008/…

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#15yrsago Passively Multiplayer Online Game launches — using game-scoring to keep track of and expand how you browse pmog.com

#10yrsago Apple can decrypt iPhones for cops; Google can remotely “reset password” for Android devices cnet.com/tech/tech-indu…

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#10yrsago Inside the world of “#booters” — cheesy DoS-for-hire sites krebsonsecurity.com/2013/05/ddos-s…

#10yrsago “Citation needed”‘s #Wikipedia entry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_…

#10yrsago #Scientology sucks at photoshop tonyortega.org/2013/05/12/sci…

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#10yrsago How #Anonymous got involved in fighting for justice for rape victims motherjones.com/politics/2013/…

#10yrsago #3DPrintedGuns and the law: will judges be able to think clearly about digital files when guns are involved? theguardian.com/technology/201…

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#5yrsago White woman calls cops on black family who barbecued in Oakland Park’s barbecue area panthertimes.com/2018/05/02/whi…

#5yrsago 75% of #TheresaMay’s £50m gift to grammar schools will go to Tory districts mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

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#5yrsago Cops have a secret, unaccountable system for tracking you by your cellphone, and they abuse it like crazy nytimes.com/2018/05/10/tec…

#1yrago A useful, critical taxonomy of #decentralization, beyond blockchains pluralistic.net/2022/05/12/cry…

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Thursday's threads: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes'

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1656754750841565184

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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700…

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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/

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Upcoming appearances:

* @GburgBookFest, (#Gaithersburg) 5/20
gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

* @publicknowledge Emerging Tech keynote (#DC), 5/22
eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…

* #WEPFest with @RonDeibert, @hockeyesque and @DrNancyOlivieri (#Toronto), 5/23
westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/28
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @christreilly (#Nottingham), 5/30
waterstones.com/events/an-even…

* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste…

* @CymeraF, 6/3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues with @Marthalanefox at the @bl, 6/5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-even…

* @republica keynote, 6/7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…

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Recent appearances:

* Slurry With The Turd On Top (@JordanJesseGo)
maximumfun.org/episodes/jorda…

* @MarkTLive


* Enshittification Part 1: Why Every Platform Goes Bad (@onthemedia)
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

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Today's top sources: @kottke (kottke.org), @EvanKirstel (twitter.com/EvanKirstel).

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