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Inside: The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/25/con…

#Pluralistic 1/ A kraken strangling a coin-operated judge automata whose rob
I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, an anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:

kickstarter.com/projects/docto… 2/
The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules): Dobbs, SVB, the Internet Archive, antitrust and the law's foundation in norms, not consistency.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/21/ant…

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Today (Mar 22), I'm doing a remote talk for the @iftf's "Changing the Register" series:

iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 2/
Kickstarting the Red Team Blues audiobook, which Amazon won't sell: Narrated by Wil Wheaton!

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/21/tec…

#Pluralistic 1/ A group of firefighters holding a safety net under a buildin
Tomorrow (Mar 22), I'm doing a remote talk for the @IFTF's "Changing the Register" series:

iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 2/
Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing: Finally, the non-tech sector can hire technical workers.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/lov…

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Today (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series

iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

On Weds (Mar 22), I'm doing a remote talk for the @IFTF's "Changing the Register" series:

iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 2/
Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk": Why today's Luddites should be smashing apps.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/18/2-b…

#Pluralistic 1/ An old fashioned corner bank. Its sign has been replaced wit
This Monday (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series

iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 2/
SVB's investors will get $2b in public bailout money: Also, Silicon Valley is apparently a neighborhood in Manhattan?

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/16/com…

#Pluralistic 1/ A smoke-filled room lit by candles. Around a large formal ta
Next Monday (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series

iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 2/
Big Business can't stop its illegal, fantastically lucrative gossiping: Everybody knows that the dice are loaded.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon…

#Pluralistic 1/ A sign reading 'This is not Disneyland! Do not let children
Next Monday (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series

iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 2/
Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists: What they think we think.

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NEW: FBI Bookstore Spying in Chicago Eyes Abortion Rights, Cop City, Anti-Development Activists

Unicorn Riot uncovered a huge FBI "Assessment" file looking at Pilsen Community Books, abortion rights activists, #CopCity opponents and more.
↘️Full story:
unicornriot.ninja/2023/fbi-books…
The owner-workers of Pilsen Community Books acknowledge that their store is “very cute.” A repurposed mid-century card catalog cabinet holds a collection of vintage mass market paperbacks. MacKenzie Brown and Mandy M...
Tarot decks with wood-cut illustrations & a tote bag featuring an anti-police slogan greet socially conscious shoppers.
But don’t be deceived.
At least according to the FBI, there’s more to this bookstore than good vibes and book release events with the latest left-wing author.
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/the…

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Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal: Exhibit A for the prosecution.

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Hey look at this

* Freely readable 2023 #NebulaAwards nominees superpunch.net/2023/03/links-…

* Why Weren't #SiliconValleyBank Depositors Using CDARS? creditslips.org/creditslips/20…

* Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the net's ‘#enshittificationtheguardian.com/commentisfree/… 3/ Image
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Excuseflation; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/pri…

#Pluralistic 1/ An old general store. Inste...
Excuseflation: Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste.

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Hey look at this

* Letter from Daniel Ellsberg, diagnosed with terminal cancer ceasefire.ca/wp-content/upl… (h/t Gord Doctorow) 3/ Image
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Giving workers modest sums to prevent them from starving during the lockdowns enraged #inflation hawks, who insist that improvements to workers' material lives will transform America into an amateur Weimar revival, with wheelbarrows of useless bank-notes. 1/ An old general store. Inste...
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/pri… 2/
"Democrats" like Larry Summers - a Clintonite ghoul who is on record as saying that women are biologically incapable of doing science - insisted that preserving workers' living standards was a terrible mistake. 3/
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/ten…

#Pluralistic 1/ A page from the Jack Chick tract 'Dark Dungeons,' depicting
Today (3/10), @Rgibli and I kick off the @SXSW reading series:

schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in: Teneo works exactly like their claims about the nonexistent Vast Leftist Conspiracy.



Hey look at this 3/ Image: Jack Chick https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…

#Pluralistic 1/ A graph depicting the Gartn...
Today (3/9), I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:

eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…

And remote at #UManitoba:

eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…

Tomorrow (3/10), @rgibli and I kick off @sxsw's readings:

schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: End to End; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/07/dis…

#Pluralistic 1/ A room full of telephone operators at a switchboard; their h
Today (3/7) I'm doing a remote talk for #TUWien:

informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373

On 3/9, I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:

eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…

And remote at #UManitoba:

eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…

On 3/10, @Rgibli and I kick off @SXSW's readings:

schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
End to End: Willing speakers should reach willing listeners.

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#Illinois Senate Bill SB1887 would drive out #blockchain #node operators, #miners, and #validators, waste judicial resources, and confuse existing law in a quixotic attempt to protect Illinois consumers. Let's examine the mess in a #thread:
as a preface, This is a stunning reverse course for a state that was previously pro -innovation. Instead we now get possibly the most unworkable state law related to #crypto and #blockchain I’ve ever seen. A shocking turn of events for the #tech community in #illinois /2
SB1887 focuses on consumer protection (this is GOOD). But, the manner in which it seeks to protect consumers is to require #node operators ##miners & #validators to do impossible things, or things that create for themselves new criminal & civil liability at pain of fines/ fees /3
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#Agenda2030 permitirá a gobiernos apoderarse de la tierra contaminada y trasladar a los residentes a ciudades inteligentes. Si la tierra + agua a su alrededor está completamente envenenada, no puede optar por no participar en el modelo de "ciudad inteligente".Empiezan a entender? ImageImage
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Último hilo del ciclo temático #DibujArtes en el que hablamos del #dibujo para el #TwitterCultural.

El dibujo es la base de la historia del arte. Todo comienza con un dibujo: #pintura, #escultura, #arquitectura...

Veamos varios ejemplos, como estas manos de #Durero.

Sigue⬇️ Alberto Durero. Manos rezan...
Estas "manos orando" fueron dibujadas con tinta negra y blaco de plomo, sobre papel azul. Las podéis ver en el Museo "Graphische Sammlung Albertina", #Viena (#Austria).

Y es que las manos son como la cara: el espejo del alma. Retratar las manos es retratar la persona.

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Aquí encontramos un magnífico o ejemplo de técnica magistral del dibujo a tinta potenciado con blanco, a dos colores, que con el papel de color medio, completa a la perfección la imagen. ¿Qué secreto esconden? ¿De quién son? Es un secreto perdido en el tiempo.

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1 in 4 flippers sold their homes for LESS $$$ than expected in our 4Q22 survey. Elevated rates and falling home prices are scaring buyers wary of buying on the way down, but investors are clearly looking to acquire now and refinance later. 🧵Flipper comments to follow ->
#Austin flipper: “Austin has an overinflated housing market that is compounded by elevated interest rates. This has resulted in a downward spiral in qualified buyers. The fix and flip market is pretty much gone. Prices in most areas are down about -30% or more in recent months.”
#Baltimore flipper: “We’re looking forward to a big 2023. I hate to say it, but a lot of it’s going to be on the backs of consumers with hardships, or circumstances where they have no other options. But that’s our bread and butter.”
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#Firefighters to go on #strike across the #UK after union members vote for action | 1h ago
- More than 80% of members who voted backed strike action across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when they were balloted last month.
yorkpress.co.uk/news/23287075.…
#UK #Teachers set to #strike after pay #talks with #Tory ministers collapse | Jan 30
- Despite years of falling take-home pay, the government offered most teachers just 5 per cent for 2022-23 — about half the rate of 40-year-high double-digit #inflation.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/teac…
Tiny #Britain is sinking.
Who will be on strike on walkout Wednesday? | Jan 30
- 100s of 1000s of workers will go on #strike on Wednesday in separate disputes over pay, jobs and conditions - the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade.
kentonline.co.uk/news/national/…
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THREAD: #Virology: Unmasking a 100+ Year Old Lie

Everything You Think You Know About Disease Is Likely Wrong.

#vaccinegenocide #vaccines #vaccinedeath #PfizerLiedPeopleDied #thread

starfirecodes.substack.com/p/virology-unm…
We Need To Base Our Understanding of Reality Upon Reality, Not Manipulation.

Everything You Think You Know About Disease Is Likely Wrong....
In order to understand the world around us as the truth about it is emerging from a 100+ year slumber, it’s going to be important to challenge ideas that have absolutely zero basis in reality.

I will start off by saying that we have been duped - ALL OF US.
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94/Wallace: caller says a 9yo was shot, EMS is rolling. #Chicago #ChicagoScanner
advise the ambulance, we have a traumatic arrest here, 9-year-old. #ShitCFDSays #Chicago #ChicagoScanner
Ambo 29 to Comer, Red.
#Chicago #ChicagoScanner
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2021 W Chicago: shots were fired inside Mariano’s, #SWAT is rolling! #ATIP! #Chicago #ChicagoScanner
NOW: EMS is rolling for a call of a person shot. #Chicago #ChicagoScanner
NOW:

We Have an Active Shooter inside Mariano's!!!!

Calling All Cars!

#Chicago #ChicagoScanner
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5013 W Superior: EMS is rolling for a call of a person shot. #Chicago #ChicagoScanner
Ambo 10 to Sinai, Red.
#Chicago #ChicagoScanner
CPR was in progress before EMS arrived. #Chicago #ChicagoScanner
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56/Prairie: multiple ppl shot! #Chicago #ChicagoScanner
Ambo 57 is triage.
Ambo 1 to Comer, Red.
Ambo 38 to UofC w/ a traumatic arrest, Red.
Ambo 55 to Comer, Red.
Ambo 14 to UofC, Red.

#MassShooting #Chicago
#ChicagoScanner
the EMS Plan I for the #MassShooting has been secured. #Chicago #ChicagoScanner
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