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17 Nov
One of the machine learning researchers I follow closely is @petewarden, who writes extensively about the hardware side of ML, something we hear very little about beyond vague accounts of the power-consumption and carbon footprints of cloud-based GPUs.

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Last month, Warden presented a talk predicting that there would be " tens or hundreds of billions of [embedded ML] devices over the next few years."

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

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In a followup, Warden explains: the rise of Tinyml (a machine learning framework for low-powered, embedded processors) and the trends in hardware point to a near-future scenario where a $0.50 CPU replicates today's high-power, networked based speech recognition systems.

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17 Nov
Here's what K-shaped recovery looks like: New Yorkers, out of money and options, move into smaller quarters with their families, putting their treasures into storage, only to discover they can't afford the storage fees - and now they're facing a wave of storage evictions.

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The evictions are driven by a second wave of storage-rentals, as middle class people lose their homes or evacuate NYC and go shopping for storage space; self-storage owners want their nonpaying customers out so they can grab some of this business.

thecity.nyc/2020/11/15/215…

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The storage eviction process has some formal requirements that make it hard for the company owners to just throw people's stuff out or auction it off, so they're offering deals to their tenants-in-arrears, like waiving some back rent in exchange for immediate departure.

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17 Nov
Today in the Attack Surface Lectures - the 8 panels I ran with @torbooks and 8 indie bookstores to coincide with the release of the third Little Brother book in Oct: @jonrog1 and @amber_benson on Cross-Media SF, hosted by @booksmithtweets.



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If you'd prefer to watch without commercial surveillance, there's a mirror of this video on the @internetarchive:

archive.org/details/asl-cr…

and here's an MP3 of just the audio:

archive.org/download/asl-c…

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I'm releasing an episode every day; yesterday's was Politics and Protest with @RonDeibert and @evacide:

pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pil…

You can also get the audio every day through my podcast feed (search for "Cory Doctorow Podcast" or use the RSS):

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podca…

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16 Nov
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Jeremy Meyer's typewriter assemblages; HHS to pharma: stop bribing writing docs; The Attack Surface Lectures; Youtube-dl is back; Someone Comes to Town Part 23; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/16/pil…

#Pluralistic

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I'm speaking on a panel at Kaspersky's Shaping the Digital Future Summit early tomorrow morning:

transparency.kaspersky.com/home

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Jeremy Meyer's typewriter assemblages: Symmetry is everything.



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16 Nov
The @RIAA threw an October Surprise late last month when it sent a takedown demand to @github over #Youtubedl, a general purpose, lawful tool that allowed people to download Youtube videos.

pluralistic.net/2020/10/28/tru…

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The RIAA's position on this was downright bizarre. First, it asserted that the kind of obfuscation that Youtube uses to hide the download URLs for its videos were a form of DRM, illegal to bypass under Section 1201 of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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Second, it asserted that it had the right to demand the removal of this tool because some RIAA members' works were available on Youtube, so bypassing Youtube's access controls gives the RIAA standing to shut the tool down.

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16 Nov
Last month saw the publication of my novel ATTACK SURFACE, the third book in the multi-bestselling Little Brother series. For the launch, @torbooks and I threw an eight-part seminar series in collaboration with eight outstanding indie bookstores.

read.macmillan.com/torforge/cory-…

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Each event featured me and two guest co-hosts discussing themes from the book, ranging from politics and protest to cyberpunk to information security to intersectionalism, race and surveillance.

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Now, the booksellers involved have begun to post their recordings, and I'm pleased to present them to you! I'll be doing one a day for the next eight days (assuming the stores' posting schedule keeps up!).

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