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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Jan 31, 2022 • 18 tweets • 15 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Grappling with Big Wrestling; Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/01/31/hee…

#Pluralistic 1/ Image: Nenad Stojkovic (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.
Grappling with Big Wrestling: Vince McMahon has a monopoly on violence.

2/ Image: Ed Webster https://www.flickr.com/photos/55898913@N0
Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down: Pixsy and the depravity of speculative invoicing.

3/ Image: Nenad Stojkovic (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.
#20yrsago How audio CD DRM works web.archive.org/web/2004022910…

#10yrsago Scientists and scholars boycott Elsevier over bad business practices and copyright maximalism thecostofknowledge.com

#10yrsago DRM is to publishing as junk science was to Stalinism publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/co… 4/
#10yrsago Judge: to ask for anonymity in porno copyright troll case, you must enter your name into the public record eff.org/press/releases…

#5yrsago Trump’s favorite voter fraud expert is registered to vote in three states apnews.com/article/donald… 5/
#5yrsago Six Wakes: a locked-room science fiction murder mystery, delightfully confounded by cloning and memory backups memex.craphound.com/2017/01/31/six…

#1yrago Know Nothings, conspiratorialism and Pastel Q pluralistic.net/2021/01/31/rhy… 6/
Yesterday's threads: The battle for Ring Zero; and more!

7/ Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w
My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 8/
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:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 9/
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/ 10/
Upcoming appearances:

* @boskonenews 59 (Feb 18-20)
boskone.org/program/schedu…

* Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical SF, 1950 to 1985 (@CityLightsBooks), Feb 27
citylights.com/events/dangero…

* Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise, Apr 19-20
2022.phillyemergingtech.com 11/
Recent appearances:

* The End of Uber (@TheWarOnCars)
thewaroncars.org/2022/01/26/the…

* Moral Panic (@Drug_Science Podcast)
drugscience.org.uk/podcast/53-mor…

* @HappenHerePod
iheart.com/podcast/1119-i… 12/
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 @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 13/
You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection!

Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2022/01/31/hee… 14/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com. 15/
My latest @Medium column is "The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties"

doctorow.medium.com/the-inevitabil… 16/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🍋". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 17/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 18/

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> A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
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> THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

Supposedly, these lines were included in a 1979 internal presentation at IBM; screenshots of them routinely go viral:



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The reason for their newfound popularity is obvious: the rise and rise of algorithmic management tools, in which your boss is an app.

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Since Trump hijacked the Supreme Court, his backers have achieved many of their policy priorities: legalizing bribery, formalizing forced birth, and - with the *Loper Bright* case, neutering the expert agencies that regulate business:



1/ jacobin.com/2024/07/scotus…A pair of balance scales high over the US Capitol Building. On one platform is a shouting banker holding a money-bag. On the other is a lap technician holding a giant testube larger than his torso, filled with various electronic gadgets. He uses tongs to hold a giant atomic motif over the tube's mouth. From behind the Capitol emerges an elephant in GOP logo livery, with the hair of Donald Trump. On the right is a gigantic telescoping platform terminating in a high-tech command chair from which a man observes the balance scales. Behind them is the DC cityscape, stretching off to the horizon.
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Nov 15
When the GOP trifecta assumes power in just a few months, they will pass laws, and those laws will be terrible, and they will cast long, long shadows.

1/ https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/14/radical-extremists/#sex-pest An e-waste dump. In the foreground are two waste-barrels. A limp Canadian flag emerges from the left barrel; the nude head and shoulders of a grinning Tony Clement emerge from the right barrel. Image: JeffJ (modified) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tony_Clement_-_2007-06-30_in_Kearney,_Ontario.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ -- Jorge Franganillo (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duga_radar_system-_wreckage_of_electronic_devices_(37885984654).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creat...
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Science fiction isn't collection of tropes, nor is it a literary style, nor is it a marketing category. It can *encompass* all of these, but what sf really is, is an *outlook*.

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"Switching costs" are one of the great underappreciated evils in our world: the more it costs you to change from one product or service to another, the worse the vendor, provider, or service you're using today can treat you without risking your business.

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