Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Privacy Without Monopoly; Broad Band; $50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/13/data-protection-without-monopoly/

#Pluralistic

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This weekend, I'm participating in Boskone 58, Boston's annual sf convention.

https://boskone.org/ 

Tonight, on a panel called "Tech Innovation? Does Silicon Valley Have A Mind-Control Ray, Or a Monopoly?" at 530PM Pacific.

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Privacy Without Monopoly: A new EFF white paper, co-authored with Bennett Cyphers.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360459236019347458

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Broad Band: Claire L Evans's magesterial history of women in computing.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360639645848137729

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$50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%: The hereditary meritocracy is in crisis.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360655213292519424

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#15yrsago Google Video DRM: Why is Hollywood more important than users? https://memex.craphound.com/2006/02/13/google-video-drm-why-is-hollywood-more-important-than-users/

#10yrsago Nokia’s radical CEO has a mercenary, checkered past https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/01/11/rss-feed-110/

#5yrsago I was a Jeopardy! clue https://memex.craphound.com/2016/02/13/i-was-a-jeopardy-clue/

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Yesterday's threads: Aaron Epstein got fiber; Ajit Pai, plague villain; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1360269858127048707

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

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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:

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

* Technology, Self-Determination, and the Future of the Future (Purdue CERIAS), Feb 17, https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/news_and_events/events/security_seminar/details/index/2njk1v59j4vdc3supiespncgr6

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

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Recent appearances:

* Chop Shop Economics https://soundcloud.com/chopshopeconomics/unlocked-special-episode-9-cory-doctorow/s-VzUA5S25But

* 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

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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].

Here's today's edition: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105725345643395129

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Today's top sources: Kottke ( https://kottke.org/ ), Naked Capitalism ( https://nakedcapitalism.com/ ).

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