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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Steven Brust's "Tsalmoth"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/27/man…

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I'm at @HTLGIFestival in #HayOnWye:

28/5 1130h: The AI Enigma
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29/5 12h: Danger and Desire at the Frontier
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

Next, #Oxford!

29/5: @blackwelloxford's 1930h w/@TimHarford:
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Steven Brust's "Tsalmoth": Swords, sorcery and swooning romance, in a series that is tantalyzingly close to completion.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How to save the new from Big Tech; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/18/ste…

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How to save the new from Big Tech: Four prescriptions from EFF.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Revenge of the Linkdumps; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/13/fou…

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Revenge of the Linkdumps: Something for the weekend, sir?



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If you've followed me a long time, you've seen my transition from a "#linkblogger" (5-15 short hits/day) to an "essay-#blogger" (5-7 articles/week). I'm loving the new mode but returning to linkblogging is also intensely, unexpectedly gratifying:

pluralistic.net/2023/05/02/wun…

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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:

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My last #linkblogging foray was so great - and my link-backlog is so large - that I'm doing another one.

Link the first: "Siphon," @xkcd's delightful, whimsical "#physics-how-the-fuck-does-it-work" one-shot (visit the link, the tooltip is great):

xkcd.com/2775/

3/ XKCD #2775: Siphon. Man: 'W...
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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:

wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…

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



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🇫🇷 "Mon métier est de fournir une information fiable à 95% ou 96%."

Retour sur l'audition à huis clos du général Jacques Langlade de Montgros, directeur du renseignement militaire (#DRM), sur le projet de #LPM 2024-30.

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🇫🇷 À la #DRM "nous produisons du #renseignement d’intérêt #militaire, c’est-à-dire une compréhension des capacités militaires des compétiteurs et groupes armés susceptibles de nuire à nos intérêts ou à nos forces. Ma mission est de réduire le niveau d’incertitude."
🇫🇷 "J’agis simultanément dans trois espaces-temps différents : le temps long, qui est celui de l’anticipation, de 6 à 24 mois – au-delà, c’est de la prospective, pas du #renseignement." #DRM #LPM
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My latest @locusmag column is "The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point," about all the ways that I agree with the Right's paranoid fringe, whom I mostly *disagree* with:

locusmag.com/2023/05/commen…

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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/2023/05/03/par…

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The impetus for the article was a widely reported, bizarre protest against the plan to create a #15MinuteCity in Oxford, England.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/dea…

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Tonight (Apr 26), I'll be in #Burbank at @DarkDel at 6PM with my new book, *Red Team Blues*:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

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From Apr 26-28, @BNBuzz is offering a 25% discount on preorders for my upcoming novels (use discount code PREORDER25):

The Lost Cause (Nov 2023)

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The Bezzle (Red Team Blues #2) (Feb 2024)

barnesandnoble.com/w/the-bezzle-c…

#BNPreorder25

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/gre…

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Tonight (Apr 25) I'll be in #SanDiego for the launch of my new novel, *Red Team Blues*, at @MystGalaxyBooks, hosted by @_SarahGailey. Please come and say hi!

mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc…

Tomorrow (Apr 26), you can catch me in #Burbank at @DarkDel at 6PM:

darkdel.com/store/p2873/We…

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How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it: Most Favored Nation is my least favorite scam.



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Amazon is *very* proud of its #flywheel: first, they subsidized customers, luriing in sellers. Then they demanded lower prices, luring more buyers. With more customers, more sellers piled in. Faster the flywheel spins, creating the #EverythingStore:

fourweekmba.com/amazon-flywhee…

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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:

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The flywheel is everywhere - they even teach it in business-schools. But Amazon is not a reliable narrator. It doesn't tell the truth about the flywheel. To understand what's really going on with the flywheel, you have apply #enshittification to it.

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🇫🇷 "La #DGSE est la locomotive technologique pour l’ensemble de la communauté du #renseignement." @SebLecornu #LPM

Extraits 👇
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🇫🇷 "Ce cumul de menaces et de sauts technologiques, couplé au défi de l’autonomie, nous oblige à accroître nos capacités [de renseignement] afin d’avoir une #diplomatie et une stratégie de défense mieux éclairées." @SebLecornu #LPM
🇫🇷 "Les régimes totalitaires se servent de la classification, non pas pour défendre seulement la sécurité de l’État, mais pour protéger les intérêts du pouvoir en place." @SebLecornu
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: SVB bailouts for everyone - except affordable housing projects; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/15/soc…

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There's just TWO DAYS left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible won't carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

redteamblues.com

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SVB bailouts for everyone - except affordable housing projects: Even the shareholders got billions.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Is antitrust anti-labor? and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/14/aim…

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There's 3 days left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my upcoming anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

redteamblues.com

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Is antitrust anti-labor? tl;dr: no.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg…

#Pluralistic A complex mandala of knobs ...
There's 5 days left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my upcoming anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

redteamblues.com

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Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The problem with economic models; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all…

#Pluralistic 1/ A Tron-like plane of glowing grid-squares. Two spherical cow
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:

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The problem with economic models: Ideology disguised as math.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead;; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pix…

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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:

redteamblues.com 2/
Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead. Pixsy's predators no longer welcome.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik…

#Pluralistic 1/ A modified vintage editorial cartoon. Uncle Sam peeks out ov
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:

redteamblues.com 2/
We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/29/hob…

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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:

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Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts.

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The #Scholomance trilogy is @naominovik's take on a #SchoolForWizardry:

It.

Is.

*Superb*.

Novik takes a belt-sander to all the crumbling tropes left by lesser writers to reveal fresh wood beneath, fashioning something breathtakingly new:

naominovik.com/category/schol… 1/ The covers of Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy in sequence
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Here's the premise: the wizards of the world live in constant peril from malificaria - the magic monsters that prey on those born with magic, especially the children. In a state of nature, only one in ten wizard kids reaches adulthood. 3/
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: What comes after neoliberalism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/ima…

#Pluralistic 1/ Air Force One in flight; dr...
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:

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What comes after neoliberalism? "There is no alternative" is really a demand, namely, "Stop trying to think of an alternative!"

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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

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

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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…

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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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