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    Sympathy for the spammer: The desperate and credulous are superspreaders in the botshit pandemic.

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        #15yrsago #Wingsuit base jumpers are human flying squirrels — video

        #10yrsago RIP, #NealBarretJunior

        #10yrsago Patent mess goes to the Supreme Court

        #10yrsago Requirements for #DRM in #HTML5 are a secret

        #10yrsago #NSA official: mass spying has foiled one (or fewer) plots in its whole history

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          #5yrsago From the empty, shutdown #IRS, automated processes are sending out property seizure notices, and no human can stop them

          #5yrsago #GoogleWalkout meets #MeToo in a new anti-#arbitration campaign

          #5yrsago #AlexandriaOcasioCortez reaches more people on Twitter than the press and establishment Democrats

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            #5yrsago In LA, the teachers of America’s largest school district are on strike

            #1yrago Kate Beaton’s “Ducks”

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                My latest novel is “The Lost Cause,” a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

                Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

                https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/

                My latest nonfiction book is “The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation” from Verso Books:

                Signed copies available from Book Soup:

                Both are national bestsellers!

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                  My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso 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.”

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