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Inside: California to smash prison e-profiteers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/08/cap…

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This Weds (May 10), I'm in #Vancouver for a keynote at the #OSSummit:

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And a book event at #HeritageHall:

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On Thu (May 11), I'm in #Calgary for @WordfestTweets:

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California to smash prison e-profiteers: The Public Utility Commission to the rescue!



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The media spectacle of #GenerativeAI (in which AI companies' breathless claims of their software's sorcerous powers are endlessly repeated) has understandably alarmed many #CreativeWorkers, a group that's already traumatized by extractive abuse by media and tech companies. 1/ A poster for the 1933 movie 'The Monkey's Paw.' The fainting
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Even though the claims about "#AI" are overblown and overhyped, creators are right to be alarmed. Their bosses would like nothing more than to fire them and replace them with pliable software. 3/
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This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column "A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator," describing my bizarre run-in with a group of #CopyleftTrolls who tried to shake me down for $600.

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What's a #copyleft troll, you ask? 3/
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