doctorow @doctorow@mamot.fr
Joined Jul 2018
If you've got a monster kid in your life, please consider pre-ordering POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER, my first picture book, out on July 14!
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1228033537867014145
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread):
Inside: No health care for part-time TSA screeners, Akil Augustine on Radicalized, Wendell Potter rebuts Joe Biden, best Covid-19 explainer and more!
Archived at https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/12/boeing-crashes/
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RT @theBekku@twitter.com
Ah, the classic set-up for Masque of the Red Death. Ofc by Poe, but also the one by @doctorow@twitter.com. Both of which pretty sure these super-rich types haven't read (because they don't)... https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1237902120478748673
RT @EL34_Rick@twitter.com
Great GenX perk:
Old enough to have discovered William Gibson, and young enough to have discovered @doctorow@twitter.com.
Sure, their style and personalities are different, but both have that well-tuned power of observation that make them almost seem to be "prophets".
And a damn fine read!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EL34_Rick/status/1238131246045245441
RT @Hugo_Book_Club@twitter.com
Unauthorized Bread by @doctorow@twitter.com
Set in a near-future Boston, Unauthorized Bread is an exploration of the potential problems caused by user rights, copyright and digital rights management (DRM). Fantastic read, built on a bedrock of empathy.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Hugo_Book_Club/status/1238132350929620993
RT @Hugo_Book_Club@twitter.com
Radicalized by @doctorow@twitter.com
Social SF about a terrorist movement that targets health insurance companies. Pointed and insightful.
(Yep. Some of us had two different novellas by Doctorow on our nominating ballots. That collection is superb).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/science-fiction-tomorrows-nightmares-start-today-11556288822
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Hugo_Book_Club/status/1238132354914238467
RT @rulib@twitter.com
@aedison@twitter.com @doctorow@twitter.com NZ has a modern military and relies on functioning global trade for essential goods. If it's bad enough that you actually need a bunker it's bad enough that they'll dig you out and eat you.
RT @pamelacolloff@twitter.com
My kids are currently acting out a trial with their Legos. The first witness is named Mr. Popsicle.
My son, playing the defense attorney, cross-examining Mr. Popsicle: “But how could you have seen the crime when you were IN SOMEONE’S MOUTH??”
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/pamelacolloff/status/1236722411892023298
Today's top sources: Slashdot (https://slashdot.org), Naked Capitalism (https://nakedcapitalism.com/).
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My first picture book, POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER, is out on July 14: it's a parable about bedtime, slaying, and being a maker!
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1228033537867014145
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Hey, Hugo nominators, my novella Unauthorized Bread is up on Ars Technica!
(it's also shortlisted for Canada's national book prize, Canada Reads; it's being made into a TV show by Topic & a graphic novel with Firstsecond)
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Yesterday's threads: Saturated fat and obesity, which foods produce satiety, spying VPNs, Twitter's research-friendly terms of service and more!
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1237779446741889024
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#10yrsago Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright https://craphound.com/BPDigitalEconomyBillweeklyminutes.pdf
#5yrsago Portland cops charge homeless woman with theft for charging her phone https://news.streetroots.org/2015/03/06/homeless-phone-charging-thief-wanted-security
#5yrsago How Harper's "anti-terror" bill ends privacy in Canada http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/03/why-the-anti-terrorism-bill-is-really-an-anti-privacy-bill-bill-c-51s-evisceration-of-government-privacy/
#5yrsago RIP, Terry Pratchett https://web.archive.org/web/20150312202353/http://www.pjsmprints.com/
#1yrago Security researcher reveals grotesque vulnerabilities in "Yelp-for-MAGA" app and its snowflake owner calls in the FBI
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How to run a virtual classroom: Masterclass from the 14-year-old Stanford Online High School.
https://mamot.fr/@doctorow/103810888807088853
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The EU's new Right to Repair rules finally come for electronics: Snoods cocked at Apple and other US Big Tech monopolists.
https://mamot.fr/@doctorow/103810886365209567
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Senate Republicans kill emergency sick leave during pandemic: Sick leave is cheaper than pandemics, but pandemics generate cost-plus contracts for the donor class.
https://mamot.fr/@doctorow/103810881309154022
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Boeing is even worse at financial engineering than they are at aircraft engineering: The $43B they incinerated through stock buybacks would sure come in handy about now.
https://mamot.fr/@doctorow/103810879107193633
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Ars Technica's Covid-19 explainer is the best resource on the pandemic: Beth Mole has outdone herself.
https://mamot.fr/@doctorow/103810875617054055
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A former top Cigna exec rebuts Joe Biden's healthcare FUD: Wendell Potter is the prodigal corporate villain.
https://mamot.fr/@doctorow/103810861900184110
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Joined Jul 2018
