Thread by @doctorow

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.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330186928654782468

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

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1330193155413651457

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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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1329895563345625088

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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."

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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:

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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."

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

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