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10 Aug

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: End of the line for Uber; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unt…

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End of the line for Uber

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10 Aug

Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends.

Uber's time is up.

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Uber was never going to be profitable. Never. It lured drivers and riders into cars by subsidizing rides with billions and billions of dollars from the Saudi royal family, keeping up the con-artist's ever-shifting patter about how all of this would some day stand on its own.

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10 Aug

The Monster (Le Monstre) is a 1903 silent film directed by Georges Méliès. starrywisdomsect.tumblr.com/post/659086262…

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9 Aug

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Managing aggregate demand"; The 22 Murders of Madison May; When your boss wants an AI camera in your bedroom; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/09/com…

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I'm a guest of honor and keynote speaker at Salt Lake City's Quills Conference on writing, Aug 12-15:

quillsconference.com

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1424472136429625345

Podcasting "Managing aggregate demand": What antitrust law tells us about the moral way to cope with demand that outstrips supply.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1424472136429625345

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9 Aug

When it comes to tech in the workplace, we pay too much attention to what the tech does, at the expense of a critical analysis of who the tech does it TO, and who the tech does it FOR.

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Take warehouse automation: stuff needs to get from A to B, and moving stuff is hard, dangerous work. In theory, warehouse automation is a critical part of making our world more humane and better for workers.

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8 Aug

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"The 22 Murders of Madison May" is a new science fiction crime thriller from @MaxBarry, a writer with a penchant for existentialism, hard-driving plots, and uncomfortable philosophical speculation.

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612941/t…

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The premise of 22 Murders: a deranged stalker who has stolen a dimension-hopping device moves from one dimension to the next, seeking out Madison May, a minor film star whom he is obsessed with.

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But in every universe, his victim has chosen a different path - realtor, student, barrista - and he murders her in a rage before skipping to the next universe.

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