Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/20/the…

#Pluralistic

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Today I'm at @GburgBookFest with *Red Team Blues* (3:15PM):

gaithersburgbookfestival.org/featured_autho…

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

eventbrite.com/e/emerging-tec…

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

westendphoenix.com/shop/wepfest-s…
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Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange: Creatively destroying your weekend like Joseph Dumpeter.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1659887499500462082

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#15yrsago Security and the statistics of rare events theguardian.com/technology/200…

#15yrsago Phlashing attack permanently destroys hardware over the network web.archive.org/web/2008120800…

#15yrsago Napster goes DRM-free MP3 web.archive.org/web/2008052806…

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#15yrsago Netherlands bans e-voting web.archive.org/web/2008052511…

#15yrsago Hypocrite GOP House Leader Boehner wants wiretapping protection — but only for himself eff.org/deeplinks/2008…

#10yrsago The Twelve-Fingered Boy – mesmerizing YA horror novel memex.craphound.com/2013/05/20/the…

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#10yrsago Rare, amazing original prospectus for Disneyland memex.craphound.com/2013/05/20/rar…

#10yrsago Movie studios send fraudulent censorship demands over Pirate Bay documentary torrentfreak.com/hollywood-stud…

#10yrsago My Sense About Science lecture memex.craphound.com/2013/05/20/cor…

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#5yrsago News crew discovers 40 cellphone-tracking devices operating around DC nbcwashington.com/news/local/pot…

#5yrsago Stagnant wages + soaring cost of living + massive cuts to services = collapsing US birth-rate latimes.com/science/scienc…

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#1yrago About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors pluralistic.net/2022/05/20/sel…

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Yesterday's threads: Venture predation; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1659589143226355713

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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…

* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, 6/8 (#Berlin)
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…

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Recent appearances:

* Crime and Crypto | CYBER (@VICE @motherboard)


* Shakedowns, Shell Games & Silicon Valley Shenanigans (@MMTpodcast)
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/170-cory-docto…

* Chokepoint Capitalism's Arts Stranglehold (@USNewsBeat)
radiopublic.com/news-beat-GKkd…

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My latest @Medium column is "Google's AI Hype Circle: We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard"

doctorow.medium.com/googles-ai-hyp…

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered).

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Today's top sources: Dan Gillmor (mastodon.social/@dangillmor/), @SidFudd (twitter.com/sidfudd), @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com), @kottke (kottke.org), @BoingBoing (boingboing.net).

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