Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government"; Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/24/1a/ 

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Monday night, I'll be helping William Gibson launch the paperback edition of his novel AGENCY at a Strand Bookstore videoconference. Come say hi!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/william-gibson-cory-doctorow-agency-tickets-132831910821

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Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government": I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1353383407875592192

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Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge: The Swamped project.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1353406045561835520

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#15yrsago A-Hole bill would make a secret technology into the law of the land https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2006/01/23/analog-hole-bill-would-impose-secret-law/

#15yrsago Hollywood’s MP loses the election — hit the road, Sam! https://web.archive.org/web/20060116023614/https://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/riding/175/

#15yrsago How William Gibson discovered science fiction http://www.infinitematrix.net/faq/essays/gibson.html

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#10yrsago Douglas Adams’ online encylopedia tries to buy itself back from the BBC https://h2g2.com/entry/A80173361 

#10yrsago Meet Obama’s new Solicitor General: the copyright industry’s Donald Verrilli Jr https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/01/obama-nominates-former-riaa-lawyer-for-solicitor-general-spot/

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#10yrsago Anti-capitalist rumba rave in a Spanish bank

#10yrsago No one will sell sodium thiopental to American executioners https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/23/lethal-injection-sodium-thiopental-hospira

#10yrsago Comics Code Authority is dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110125024419/http://www.newsarama.com/comics/archie-drops-CCA-in-february-110121.html

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#5yrsago Disney’s prized theme-park no-fly zone means it can’t use drones in its firework shows https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/01/22/disney-loved-its-no-fly-zone-until-it-wanted-to-fly-its-own-drones/

#1yrago Bipartisan consensus is emerging on reining in Big Tech https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078903/podcast-house-antitrust-chairman-cicilline-tech-monopoly-vergecast

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#1yrago London cops announce citywide facial recognition cameras https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/24/21079919/facial-recognition-london-cctv-camera-deployment

#1yrago Canadian “protesters” at Huawei extradition hearing say they were tricked, thought they were in a music video https://thebreaker.news/news/paid-protest-meng/

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#1yrago The case for replacing air travel with high-speed sleeper trains https://theconversation.com/could-sleeper-trains-replace-international-air-travel-130334

#1yrago Youtube’s Content ID has become the tool of choice for grifty copyfraudsters who steal from artists https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200115/17362843740/as-we-get-closer-closer-to-eu-requiring-contentid-everywhere-more-abuses-contentid-exposed.shtml

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#1yrago Wells Fargo’s ex-CEO will pay $17.5m in fines and never work in banking again (but he is still very, very rich) https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2020/01/23/wells-fargo-ex-ceo-john-stumpf-banned-banking-fined-17-5-m/4555993002/

#1yrago Howto: roleplay a suit of armor filled with bees https://twitter.com/snickelsox/status/1220422182045659143

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#1yrago Jamie Dimon is a (highly selective) socialist

#1yrago Majority of UK booze-industry revenues come from problem drinkers https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/22/problem-drinkers-alcohol-industry-most-sales-figures-reveal

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#1yrago US insurers, sick of being gouged by Big Pharma, will develop cheap generics https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/sick-of-big-pharmas-pricing-health-insurers-pledge-55m-for-cheap-generics/

#1yrago White nationalists planned to murder cops and pro-gun protesters in Virginia https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-rally-virginia-documents-allege-base-members-discussed-starting-civil-war-2020-01-21/

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#1yrago A sober look at kratom, a psychoactive plant that has many claimed benefits, and has also inspired a moral panic https://www.wired.com/story/release-the-kratom-inside-drug-culture/

#1yrago Microsoft employs a giant plush Clippy whose performer has a large Clippy tattoo https://twitter.com/radmint/status/1214226032946905088

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#1yrago Unauthorized Charcoal: GE fridges won’t dispense ice or water unless your filter authenticates as an official ($55!) component https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1220367934947758080

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Friday's threads: Launching a print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM; EFF's transition memo for the Biden admin; How one of America's most abusive employers gets away with it; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1352675024205881346

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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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My 2020 book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposing a way to deal with both:

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

Now, it's available in paperback!

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-cory-doctorow/1138653669

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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:

* Evening with William Gibson, Jan 25, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/william-gibson-cory-doctorow-agency-tickets-132831910821

* Launch for the print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, Jan 28, https://medium.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GfnYHzZCSY-cCMVL5ZCDBw

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Recent appearances:

* Monocle Reads https://monocle.com/radio/shows/meet-the-writers/monocle-reads-87/play/

* Hedging Bets on the Future (Motherboard Cyber):
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

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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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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @[email protected].

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