Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Mashapedia; The City We Became; Crowdsourcing a list of bad cops; Censorship, Parler and antitrust; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/09/the-old-crow-is-getting-slow/

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Mashapedia: A third-party glossary of the technical concepts from Attack Surface.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347609480758841352

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The City We Became: Jemisin relitigates Jacobs v Moses, with Lovecraft refereeing.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347613537590337536

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Crowdsourcing a list of bad cops: Who's on the Brady List?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347970144274796544

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Censorship, Parler and antitrust: Just because it doesn't violate the First Amendment...

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347996799642976256

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#15yrsago Hollywood’s Canadian politician: history of a sellout https://web.archive.org/web/20060209050302/http://www.copyrightwatch.ca/?p=22

#5yrsago Now that they know the NSA is spying on them, Congress is really worried about domestic surveillance https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160107/12120433271/after-spending-time-as-surveillance-subjects-intelligence-oversight-committee-suddenly-performing-some-oversight.shtml

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#5yrsago Bernie Sanders’ Ben and Jerry’s flavor: top 10% is chocolate you smash and mix with the 90% below https://www.msnbc.com/kate-snow/watch/-ben---jerry-s--show-support-for-sanders-597958723539

#5yrsago De-bullshitifying the libertopian Legend of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge https://psmag.com/news/libertarian-fairy-tales-of-the-bundy-family

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#1yrago Black Flag/Iain Banks mashup tee https://roguescreenprint.bigcartel.com/product/iain-banks-baseball

#1yrago RIP, Mike Resnick https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mike-resnick-pay-off-a-neardeath-experience

#1yrago A beautiful timeline of a future in which the climate crisis is met and overcome https://thecorrespondent.com/214/in-2030-we-ended-the-climate-emergency-heres-how/28330740746-6b15af77

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#1yrago How to read long, difficult books https://www.bradford-delong.com/2019/12/a-note-on-reading-big-difficult-books.html

#1yrago Multiple Amazon employees have been fired for spying on Ring owners’ cameras https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3mdvk/ring-fired-employees-abusing-video-data

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#1yrago The Communications Workers of America is seeking to unionize tech and video game workers https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-01-07/major-union-launches-campaign-to-organize-video-game-and-tech-workers

#1yrago More than 800 Russian academic articles retracted after “bombshell” report reveals plagiarism and other misconduct https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/russian-journals-retract-more-800-papers-after-bombshell-investigation

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Yesterday's threads: Competition is Killing Us; Predatory lender seeks national bank charter; Militarizing cops was a failure; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347601735452266497

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html

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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/ 

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Upcoming appearances:

* What if the future of our public lives online looked like _____? (panel at New_ Public), Jan 13, https://newpublic.org/festival/event/783/all-star-world-cafe-what-if-the-future-of-our-public-lives-online-looked-like

* Keynote for http://linux.conf.au , Jan 22 (US) 23 (Australia) https://linux.conf.au/schedule/ 

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Recent appearances:

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard):
https://play.acast.com/s/cyber/hedgingbetsonthefuturewithauthorcorydoctorow

* Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change:
https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/12/applying-the-pandemic-mindset-to-climate-change-with-cory-doctorow

* 2020 Beaverbrook Lectures:


* Bibliotherapy/Shelf Healing:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1509671/6580831 

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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 Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poesy-the-monster-slayer/#poesy

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