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Inside: Mayor of Las Vegas says the "free market" will decide what's safe; Powell's botanically correct flower guy is in trouble; Library of Last Resort; Manyland; Riot Baby...

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/rio…

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Mayor of Las Vegas says the "free market" will decide what's safe: Reality has a leftist bias.



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Powell's botanically correct flower guy is in trouble: Arnold Drake World is about to lose his home.



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Library of Last Resort: Interactive fiction, meet metafiction.



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Manyland: An open-ended virtual world you visit in your browser.



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Riot Baby: An incandescent Afrofuturist novella.



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#15yrsago London Review of Books's personals are really dirty and funny web.archive.org/web/2005022409…

#15yrsago Free Culture Movement turns one web.archive.org/web/2005042602…

#10yrsago Microsoft wins its $100M tax-break and amnesty from broke-ass Washington State web.archive.org/web/2010042906…

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#10yrsago British Airways leaves stranded passengers all over world, jacks up prices on tickets home theguardian.com/news/blog/2010…

#5yrsago Privilege: you're probably not the one percent jacobinmag.com/2015/04/1-99-p…

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#1yrago EU to create 350m person biometric database for borders, migration and law enforcement zdnet.com/article/eu-vot…

#1yrago Greta Thunberg attributes her ability to focus on climate change to her Asperger's greatbigstory.com/stories/greta-…

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#1yrago Fool me twice: New York State commutes Charter's death sentence after Charter promises to stop breaking its promises arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#1yrago Political candidate's kids use election flyers to fool his laptop's facial recognition lock

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Yesterday's threads: Web-wide copyright filters would be a disaster; Apartment buildings didn't cause the pandemic; Unmasking the registrants of the "reopen" websites; Covid burns through Charter Cable employees; and more!



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On Jul 14, my first picture book comes out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.



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Facebook has an automated system for creating classifiers for its advertisers to use in their ad-targeting. This is a a terrible idea, whose idiocy has been obvious since 2017, when this system started allowing people to advertise to "Jew-haters."

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But FB has 2.5B users, and while the impossibility of doing that responsibly is obvious to those without a financial stake in it, FB's got Upton Sinclair disease:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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That's why FB is STILL running the system that coughed up "Jew-hater" 3 years ago.

Now, The Markup has identified some of its other categories, like "pseudoscience" and various conspiracy theories ("New World Order," "Chemtrails," etc).

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Amazon told Congress that it doesn't spy on its sellers to figure out which products it should clone. Instead, the company has argued that its longstanding practice of knocking off the most successful products on its platform represents a string of incredible coincidences.

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But internal Amazon whistleblowers told the Wall Street Journal that they totally do this, all the time. I mean, OBVIOUSLY.

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You may have heard telcoms shills declaring that America's internet is holding up during the pandemic while Europe's is collapsing, and it's all thanks to @AjitPaiFCC's murder of #NetNeutrality. As @karlbode writes, "This entire narrative is fantasy."

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Generally networks have help up well in most places because they're managed by engineers who are good at their jobs. The EU's request to streaming companies to lower their video resolution by 25% was a pre-emptive precautionary measure, not a response to actual problems.

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