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30 Sep

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Facebook thrives on criticism of "disinformation"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/09/30/don…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1443637281252724737

Facebook thrives on criticism of "disinformation": They'd rather be evil than incompetent.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1443637281252724737

#5yrsago Your next DDoS attack, brought to you courtesy of the IoT community.broadcom.com/symantecenterp…

#1yrago Block Google-Fitbit pluralistic.net/2020/10/01/the…

#1yrago The Years of Repair pluralistic.net/2020/10/01/the…

#1yrago Private equity's profitable murder pluralistic.net/2020/10/01/the…

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@doctorow

30 Sep

The mainstream critique of Facebook is surprisingly compatible with Facebook's own narrative about its products. FB critics say that the company's machine learning and data-gathering slides disinformation past users' critical faculties, poisoning their minds.

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Meanwhile, Facebook itself tells advertisers that it can use data and machine learning to slide past users' critical faculties, convincing them to buy stuff.

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29 Sep

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid; "Are you calling me a racist?"; Wells Fargo can't stop criming; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/09/29/jub…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1443269178132086785

Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid: The first David Graeber Foundation meetup, between Thomas Piketty and Michael Hudson.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1443269178132086785

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1443282639171981318

"Are you calling me a racist?": The libertarian case for racism.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1443282639171981318

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@doctorow

29 Sep

Wells Fargo is America's third-largest bank. It used to be the largest, but it committed a string of terrible frauds that it was never truly punished for (it made more from crime than it paid in fines).

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@WellsFargo

Its crime spree DID result in one meaningful punishment: Wells was forced to downsize to #3, with a mere $1.77 trillion in assets.

Have no fear: @WellsFargo is down but not out, and despite its reduced stature, it is still engaged in egregious acts of fraud.

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29 Sep

@mtaibbi

In "I Can't Breathe," @mtaibbi's book on Eric Garner's murder he writes, "You could reduce...Fox News and afternoon talk radio to a morbid national obsession that could be summarized on a t-shirt: ‘Are you calling me a racist?'"

memex.craphound.com/2017/12/15/i-c…

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It's a passage I found myself turning to regularly during the Trump years, when right wing figures bristled at being called racist merely for supporting an explicitly racist party that took power by appealing to white nationalism.

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The media spent a lot of that period asking itself whether being a Republican was the same as being a racist, and one commonsense answer that cropped up a lot was, "It may not mean that you are racist, but it does mean that you'll accept racism as the price of GOP rule."

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@doctorow

29 Sep

@davidgraeber

It's been just over a year since the death of activist, writer and anthropologist @davidgraeber - a brilliant speaker, writer and thinker who helped give us #Occupy, "we are the 99%" and #BullshitJobs.

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@nikadubrovsky

On the anniversary of David's death, his widow @nikadubrovsky convened the first "Art Project" discussion, a fascinating debate between @PikettyLeMonde and @michaelwhudson, a pair of political economists whose work is neatly bridged by Graeber's own.

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Piketty, of course, is the bestselling French economist whose 2013 Capital in the 21st Century was an unlikely, 700+ page viral hit, describing with rare lucidity the macroeconomics that drive capitalism towards cruel and destabilizing inequality

memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24/tho…

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