Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Capitalism's crooked refs; Aaron Swartz, vindicated; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/04/aar…

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Next Monday, Jun 7, I'm helping Terry Miles launch his debut novel RABBITS:

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Capitalism's crooked refs: Big Accounting and the bezzle.



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Aaron Swartz, vindicated: Van Buren and the CFAA.

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#15yrsago GNU Radio: the universal, software-defined radio web.archive.org/web/2006061306…

#10yrsago France bans “follow us on Twitter” from newscasts zdnet.com/article/france…

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Yesterday threads: Efficiency is very inefficient; and more!



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My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Recommendation engines and "lean-back" media; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/05/lea…

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Next Monday, Jun 7, I'm helping @TKMiles launch his debut novel RABBITS:

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Recommendation engines and "lean-back" media: The failure of "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump" and linear programming.



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In @greatdismal's 1992 novel "Idoru," a media executive describes his company's core audience:

"Best visualized as a vicious, lazy, profoundly ignorant, perpetually hungry organism craving the warm god-flesh of the anointed.

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"Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka.

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THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1964-1966)
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1964-1966)
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George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in Fantasia 2000 mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/653083743…
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4 Jun
It's been eight years since @aaronsw took his own life. Aaron had been charged with 13 felonies under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (#CFAA) for violating the terms of service on the @JSTOR database of scholarly articles.

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Prosecutors Stephen Heymann and Carmen Ortiz didn't dispute that Aaron was allowed to access the articles he retrieved. Rather, they said that the WAY he accessed them (using a script instead of clicking on links) was a terms-of-service violation and hence a crime.

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In other words: any business could conjure a felony out of thin air by making you click through an unreadable garbage-novella of legalese proscribing the use of a service they granted you access to. Violate any of those terms and you face a prison sentence.

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