Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: A machine learning wrecking ball; Nintendo vs Nintendees; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/21/wre…

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A machine learning wrecking ball: Even if you fix training data, you still have to reckon with underspecification.



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Nintendo vs Nintendees: Super Smash Bros Melee is a case study in spiteful corporate fuckery.



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#15yrsago EFF brings class-action against Sony! web.archive.org/web/2005112817…

#10yrsago Florida’s dirty “rocket docket” courts are a gift to fraudulent lenders web.archive.org/web/2010111316…

#10yrsago How TSA screeners feel about junk-touching flyingwithfish.boardingarea.com/2010/11/18/tsa…

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#10yrsago Who owns your mortgage, the mind-croggling flowchart edition zerohedge.com/article/just-w…

#1yrago How to recognize AI snake oil memex.craphound.com/2019/11/21/how…

#1yrago Mayor Pete: Obama should have left Chelsea Manning to rot in prison for 35 years cbsnews.com/amp/news/2020-…

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#1yrago High prices and debt mean millennials don’t plan to stop renting, and that’s before their parents retire and become dependent on them businessinsider.com/more-millennia…

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#1yrago “Out of Home Advertising”: the billboards that spy on you as you move through public spaces consumerreports.org/privacy/digita…

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Yesterday's threads: Little Revolutions; Russian Cyberpunk Farm; We're already (badly) forgiving student debt; Facebook bullies watchdog; Google's monopoly rigged the ad market; and more!



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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

Get signed books from @darkdel: darkdel.com/store/p1840/Av…

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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming appearances:

* Keynote, Cybersummit 2020, Nov 26 cybera.ca/cyber-summit-2…

* Keynote, Cologne Futures, Nov 27 medienpolitik.eu

* Beaverbrook Lecture: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, Nov 30, mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/…

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Recent appearances:

* Talkingheadz Podcast:
talkingpointz.com/talkingheadz-w…

* Can Web 3 Help Democracy?


* Fully Charged: The future of energy over the next 300 years
fullycharged.show/podcasts/podca…

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My first picture book is 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.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…

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Today's top sources: Noah Swartz, Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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23 Nov
Predictive policing tools work really well: they perfectly predict what the police will do. Specifically, they predict whom the police will accuse of crimes, and since only accused people are convicted, they predict who will be convicted, too.

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In that sense, predictive policing predicts "crime" - the crimes that the police prosecute are the crimes that the computer tells them to seek out and make arrests over. But that doesn't mean that predictive policing actually fights actual crime.

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Instead, predictive policing serves as empirical facewash for bias. Take last year's biased policing statistics, give them to a machine learning model, and ask it where the crime will be next year, and it will tell you that next year's crime will look much the same.

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Today on the Attack Surface Lectures (8 panels exploring themes from the third Little Brother book, hosted by @torbooks and 8 indie bookstores): Opsec/Personal Cyber-Security, with @runasand and @window, recorded on Oct 22 by @ThirdPlaceBooks.



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You can watch it without Youtube's surveillance courtesy of the @internetarchive:

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Or get the audio as an MP3:

archive.org/download/asl-o…

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I. Politics and Protest (with @evacide and @RonDeibert, hosted by @strandbookstore):

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: An Especially Cursed House; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/11/22/esp…

#Pluralistic

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An Especially Cursed House: Kate Wagner and the Fall of the House of Colt's Neck.



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#15yrsago Anti-game lawyer Jack Thompson loses right to practice law in Alabama arstechnica.com/uncategorized/…

#15yrsago Giving EU air-passenger data to US DHS is illegal rte.ie/news/2005/1122…

#10yrsago German dog poo game for kids

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22 Nov
The meat-and-potatoes of Kate Wagner's @mcmansionhell is making extraordinarily hilarious architectural criticism out of mediocre "luxury" homes. Anyone can find hilarity in a tacky monstrosity, but finding the humor in unimaginative status-displays takes insight and skill.

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That said.

When Wagner takes on an extraordinarily awful McMansion, it quickly becomes apparent that her focus on workaday bougie ugliness is all about the challenge - she plays boss-level because she's just TOO GOOD at the easy stuff.

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Which brings me to the latest installment of McMansion Hell: "An Especially Cursed House": a $2.2m, 5,420 sqft 4 bed/4.5 bath house in Colt’s Neck, NJ. The viral listing had attracted plenty of dunks, but Wagner's treatment? ::chef's kiss::

mcmansionhell.com/post/635435396…

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