Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity; Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity; Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/meme-stocks/

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Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity: A thoughtful analysis.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1355159548932157445

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Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity: I thought about it some more.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1355160011920396291

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Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets: Even if there's no angels, there's still a path to glory.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1355586240578420739

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#10yrsago Morrow’s Diviner’s Tale is a tight, literary ghost story https://memex.craphound.com/2011/01/30/morrows-diviners-tale-is-a-tight-literary-ghost-story/

#10yrsago ATM skimmer that doesn’t require any modifications to the ATM https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/01/atm-skimmers-that-never-touch-the-atm/

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ATM Skimmers That Never Touch the ATM

Media attention to crimes involving ATM skimmers may make consumers more likely to identify compromised cash machines, which involve cleverly disguised theft devices that sometimes appear off-color...

https://memex.craphound.com/2011/01/30/morrows-diviners-tale-is-a-tight-literary-ghost-story/
#5yrsago Same as the old boss: Justin Trudeau ready to sign Harper’s EU free trade deal https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-eu-parliament-schulz-ceta-1.3415689

#5yrsago Danish government let America’s Snowden-kidnapping jet camp out in Copenhagen https://web.archive.org/web/20160126202504/https://www.denfri.dk/2016/01/usa-sendte-fly-til-danmark-for-at-hapse-snowden/

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Yesterday's threads: David Dayen's MONOPOLIZED; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1355169506507640832

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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."

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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://bookshop.org/books/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism/9781736205907

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Upcoming appearances:

* Launch for the young adult edition of Edward Snowden's memoir PERMANENT RECORD, Feb 9, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/edward-snowden-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-136734968973

* Boskone, 58, Feb 12-15, https://boskone.org/ 

* Keynote, NISO Plus, Feb 22-25, https://niso.plus/cory-doctorow-to-keynote-at-niso-plus-2021/

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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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