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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Conservatives are fringe outliers - and leftists could learn from them; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/tha…

#Pluralistic

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I'm taking some time off - see you again in mid-July!

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Conservatives are fringe outliers - and leftists could learn from them: Unhinged QGOP freaks may be completely unhinged, but they know how to use power.


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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/pai…

#Pluralistic

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Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation: The real secret of "dark SEO" is "pay for an ad."



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* The Mystery of #WaltDisneyWorld’s Bermuda Triangle micechat.com/319186-the-mys…

* #Disney’s #HauntedMansion and the Invention of Halloween as You Know It micechat.com/308943-disneys…

* Apollo Remastered apolloremastered.com (h/t @kottke)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/fly…

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How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy: Monopsony, junk fees and market power.



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* What #Reddit Got Wrong eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

* @signalapp’s @mer__edith: ‘These people could actually pause #AI if they wanted’ theguardian.com/technology/202… (h/t @kottke)

* Humans Are Biased. #GenerativeAI Is Worse bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-… (h/t @metafilter)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/13/cer…

#Pluralistic

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Saving the news from Big Tech with end-to-end social media: The final installment in my EFF series on saving the news.



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* Logistics Co Recruiting in American Truck Simulator Amid Driver Shortage gizmodo.com/american-truck…

* Social Case for Bright-Line #Antitrust Rules thesling.org/the-social-cas…

* #Ontario #NDP hearings to lower phone bills/improve ISPs
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/onl…

#Pluralistic

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Podcasting "Ideas Lying Around": A theory of change based on shovel-ready ideas.



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* #Toronto Tenants Are Uniting in a Mass #RentStrike jacobin.com/2023/06/toront…

* France legalizes remotely turning on the camera or microphone of smartphones in criminal investigations www-francetvinfo-fr.translate.goog/societe/justic… (h/t Cooper)

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Capitalists hate capitalism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/com…

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Capitalists hate capitalism: Merck's version of "market pricing" is "whatever we ask for."



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* Some #blogging myths jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/0… (h/t @kottke)

* #OpenAI Sued for Libel After ChatGPT Allegedly Hallucinates Man Into Lawsuit gizmodo.com/chatgpt-openai…

* Eli Lilly Unveils Insulin That Doesn’t Work On Poor People theonion.com/eli-lilly-unve…

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: To save the news, repeal the app tax; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/07/cur…

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Today 7/6, I'm keynoting @republica in #Berlin:

re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…

Tomorrow 8/6, I'm at @otherlandberlin Books with my novel *Red Team Blues*:

otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…

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To save the news, repeal the app tax: The latest in "saving the news from Big Tech."



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: A business model for bankrupting the oil companies; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/06/tha…

#Pluralistic

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Today 6/6, I'm doing a remote panel on #interoperability for @rightscon:

eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

Wed 7/6, I'm keynoting @republica in #Berlin:

re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…

Thu 8/6, I'm at @otherlandberlin Books with my novel *Red Team Blues*:

otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…

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A business model for bankrupting the oil companies: Incentives matter (and that matters).



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/vul…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight (5/6) at 7:15PM, I'm at the #BritishLibrary with my book *Red Team Blues* for an event hosted by @Marthalanefox:

bl.uk/events/an-even…

Tomorrow 6/6, I'm doing a remote panel on #interoperability for @rightscon:

eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

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Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house: When the editorial page leaks into the news.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/03/whe…

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Today (3/6) at 1:30PM, I'm in #Edinburgh for @CymeraF on a panel with Nina Allen and @iannmcdonald:

cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

Mon 5/6 at 7:15PM, I'm at the #BritishLibrary with my book *Red Team Blues* for an event hosted by @Marthalanefox:

bl.uk/events/an-even…

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Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things: We just need to tax the rich.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The long, bloody lineage of private equity's looting; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plu…

#Pluralistic

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Tomorrow (3/6) at 1:30PM, I'm in #Edinburgh for @CymeraF on a panel with Nina Allen and @iannmcdonald:

cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

Mon 5/6 at 7:15PM, I'm at the #BritishLibrary with my book *Red Team Blues* for an event hosted by @Marthalanefox:

bl.uk/events/an-even…

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CORRECTION: The 5/29 edition of Pluralistic quoted $20k Rebyota; this was the rumored pre-release price; the actual average wholesale price is $10.8k. Thanks to Benjamin Jolley for catching this error, and to Stephen Skolnick for getting to the bottom of it.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: To save the news, ban surveillance ads; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/31/con…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight (31/5, 1830h) I'm at #Manchester @WaterstonesMCR with *Red Team Blues*, hosted by @cubicgarden:

waterstones.com/events/in-conv…

On 1/6, it's #London for @uclcs's #PeterKirstein Lecture:

eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste…

Next: #Edinburgh, #London & #Berlin!

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To save the news, ban surveillance ads: No publisher will ever beat ad-tech at spying, but no tech company will ever understand a publisher's content better than they do.



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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…

#Pluralistic

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I'm at @HTLGIFestival in #HayOnWye:

28/5 1130h: The AI Enigma
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…

29/5 12h: Danger and Desire at the Frontier
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

Next, #Oxford!

29/5: @blackwelloxford's 1930h w/@TimHarford:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

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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 (and why) Biden should overcome the Supreme Court to end the debt showdown; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/26/min…

#Pluralistic

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I'm at @HTLGIFestival in #HayOnWye:

28/5 1130h: The AI Enigma
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…

29/5 12h: Danger and Desire at the Frontier
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

Next, #Oxford!

29/5: @blackwelloxford's 1930h w/@TimHarford:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

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How (and why) Biden should overcome the Supreme Court to end the debt showdown: Bonus: it'll also kill Trump's alarmingly good chances for a second term.



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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: To save the news, shatter ad-tech; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/25/str…

#Pluralistic

1/ EFF's banner for the save n...
I'm at @HTLGIFestival in #HayOnWye:

28/5 1130h: The AI Enigma
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…

29/5 12h: Danger and Desire at the Frontier
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

Next, #Oxford!

29/5: @blackwelloxford's 1930h w/@TimHarford:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

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To save the news, shatter ad-tech: Structural separation will help the news claim their fair share.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/20/the…

#Pluralistic

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Dumping links like Galileo dumped the orange: Creatively destroying your weekend like Joseph Dumpeter.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Venture predation; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fak…

#Pluralistic

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Venture predation: A pile of shit this big MUST have a pony underneath it!



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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: The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/17/fre…

#Pluralistic

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The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer): After years of expensively purchased delay, Turbotax and its fellow tax-profiteers are losing the fight to make you pay them to tell the government what it already knows.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…

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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.



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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…

#Pluralistic

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



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes'; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/11/ugl…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight (May 11) at 7PM, I'm in #CALGARY for @WordfestTweets with my novel *Red Team Blues*; I'll be hosted by Peter Hemminger at the Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor.

wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…

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'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes': The pervasive, predatory sleaze of Homevestor, "the #1 homebuyer in the USA."



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/10/sof…

#Pluralistic

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Today (May 10), I'm in #VANCOUVER for a keynote at the #OSSummit:

events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…

And a book event tonight at #HeritageHall:

eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blu…

Tomorrow (May 11), I'm in #CALGARY for @WordfestTweets:

wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…

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Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms: Don't just try to make platforms better - make them less important.



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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/09/din…

#Pluralistic

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

events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-su…

And a book event at #HeritageHall:

eventbrite.ca/e/red-team-blu…

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

wordfest.com/2023/event/wor…

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KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits: Too big to fail, too big to jail, and an existential risk to civilization.



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