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25 Oct

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Facebook threatens ad-transparency group; The madness of elite varsity sports; Bob Dylan sings a EULA; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/25/mus…

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This weekend's events:

Milehicon (Fri/Sat/Sun): milehicon.org

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320130598074105856

Facebook threatens ad-transparency group: Ad Observatory gets the Power Ventures treatment.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320130598074105856

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25 Oct

The rise and rise of terms of service is a genuinely astonishing cultural dysfunction. Think of what a bizarre pretense we all engage in, that anyone, ever, has read these sprawling garbage novellas of impenetrable legalese.

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And yet, there they are, looming over us, and, even more bizarrely, they are generally enforceable, even when they confiscate rights as basic as the right to sue over negligence or malice.

law.com/dailybusinessr…

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Terms of Service are "the biggest lie on the internet":

> Qualitative findings suggest that participants view policies as nuisance, ignoring them to pursue the ends of digital production, without being inhibited by the means.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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25 Oct

When I think of the last 40 years of neoliberalism, I think of a game of musical chairs, in which the music's tempo steadily increases, the number of chairs rapidly decreases, and the penalties for not having a chair become more ever-more cruel.

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Movements for racial, gender and gender identity justice are a source of panic for the most precarious chair-chasers, because these movements increase the number of people who get to compete for chairs - but don't increase the number of chairs in play.

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The wealthiest, most powerful people could mobilize their fortunes to secure chairs and for a long time, the game served them: the increasing desperation for chairs on the part of everyone else translated into ready access to toadies, jesters, bodyservants and courtesans.

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25 Oct

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25 Oct

Look, your daughter doesn’t say she’s a demon. She says she’s the devil himself.

THE EXORCIST (1973) dir. William Friedkin

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