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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: "The Swerve"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/07/05/gra…

#Pluralistic 1/ A broken bridge over a mysterious chasm.
Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

clarionwriteathon.com/members/profil… 2/
"The Swerve": My Locus column on hope in the dark.

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Hey look at this

* How to save lives and avoid privacy apocalypse ft.com/content/fa2683… (h/t @TimHarford)

* Craft beer uses recycled sewage theguardian.com/world/2022/jul… (h/t my mom)

* Valedictorian Rips Into Erosion Of Public Education popularresistance.org/lausd-high-sch… (h/t my dad) 4/
#20yrsago Themepark queues and traffic-shaping web.archive.org/web/2002071313…

#20yrsago Parasitic computing proof uses JavaScript to compel computation web.archive.org/web/2003120303…

#20yrsago Shredding Hollywood’s digital television FUD web.archive.org/web/2002070814… 5/
#20yrsago What is Palladium? What is the area of a Moebius Strip? web.archive.org/web/2002090315…

#20yrsago @therealjanisian vs the RIAA web.archive.org/web/2002080208…

#15yrsago RIP, Fred Saberhagen locusmag.com/2007/2007NewsA… 6/
#15yrsago @lewisshiner’s short fiction online for free lewisshiner.com/liberation/man…

#15yrsago Me on CBC, talking Universal v. iTunes web.archive.org/web/2007072911… 7/
#10yrsago Meet the legions of wingnuts who think Andy Griffith was a communist and want him to burn in hell theblaze.com/tag/report-and…

#10yrsago Team Human: a high-school vampire novel doesn’t suck (it rocks) memex.craphound.com/2012/07/03/tea… 8/
#10yrsago Karl Marx on a MasterCard npr.org/sections/money…

#10yrsago Fretting about Facebook, 17th century style tomstandage.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/the…

#10yrsago @TheWELL users pledge more than $100K to community buyout nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/07/wi… 9/
#10yrsago @MrChuckD’s rules for the music business craphound.com/images/ChuckDs…

#10yrsago @EFF weighs in on Charles Carreon’s latest dumb stunt eff.org/deeplinks/2012…

#10yrsago Charles Carreon: “Mission accomplished” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 10/
#10yrsago Chinese-built ghost town in Angola – the first of many to come? bbc.com/news/world-afr…

#10yrsago #ACTA IS DEAD (ish) (for now) web.archive.org/web/2012070703…

#10yrsago Why we still fight about music and copyright on the Internet locusmag.com/2012/07/cory-d… 11/
#5yrsago AT&T: it’s not “forced arbitration” because no one forced you to have broadband arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#5yrsago California has so much solar power it has to pay Arizona to use its excess energy latimes.com/projects/la-fi… 12/
#5yrsago Now any Floridian can ask to have public schools’ science and literary curriculum censored web.archive.org/web/2017050100…

#5yrsago A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: DNA, individuals, and species memex.craphound.com/2017/07/03/a-b… 13/
#5yrsago Celebrate Independence Day with @mc_frontalot’s nerdcore rap about free software vs open source

#5yrsago Dominic Cummings thought up the Brexit Bus and its NHS lie, now says referendum was a “dumb idea” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… 14/
#5yrsago Vidangel is a stupid censorship service and we should welcome it anyway wired.com/story/vidangel…

#5yrsago For sale: any Australian’s full health record for a mere $22 theguardian.com/australia-news… 15/
#5yrsago Bloomberg: Middle-class Americans were “fleeced” by neoliberalism bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

#5yrsago In the 1990s, a Serbian biology textbook used a still from Raising Arizona for its cover art avclub.com/nicolas-cage-w… 16/
#5yrsago Mom feared being beaten by United crew, so she didn’t complain when her son’s seat was given away hawaiinewsnow.com/story/35811846…

#5yrsago Debullshitifying the free speech debate about CNN and Trump’s alt-right wrestling GIF popehat.com/2017/07/05/cnn… 17/
#1yrago Podcasting "Self Publishing": My column on monopolism, publishing, and the fortunes of authors pluralistic.net/2021/07/05/ide…

#1yrago Conspiracy fantasy: The political significance and personal appeal of conspiratorialism pluralistic.net/2021/07/05/ide… 18/
#1yrago The future is symmetrical: Broadband netizens vs asymmetrical mouse-potatoes pluralistic.net/2021/07/03/bea…

#1yrago Biden admin orders an end to surprise ER billing pluralistic.net/2021/07/02/spo… 19/
Friday's threads: After inflation, the whip-crack; and more!

20/ Image: Lars Frantzen (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.or
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… 21/
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… 22/
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/ 23/
Upcoming appearances:

* A New @HOPEconf (NYC), Jul 24
hope.net

* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
defcon.org/html/defcon-30… 24/
Recent appearances:

* @CMAgovUK Data, Technology and Analytics Conference:


* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event… 25/
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… 26/
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/2022/07/05/gra… 27/
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com. 28/
My latest Medium column is "Shovel-Ready: A half-to-three-quarters-baked idea to fix capitalism"

doctorow.medium.com/shovel-ready-3…

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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

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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…

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Mar 5
You guys, I don't want to bum you out or anything, but I think there's a good chance than some self-described capitalists *aren't really into capitalism*.

Sorry.

1/ A giant, complicated, mechanical printing press. Looming over it is an 18th-century demon from the Compendium Rarissimum Totius Artis Magicae; it is a eating severed human leg, and waving another leg in the air. In the background rise dark red flames. The printer has a Brother logo.
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Take incentives: Charlie Munger, capitalism's quippiest pitchman, famously said, "Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome."

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Mar 3
I get a special pleasure from citing Milton Friedman. I like to imagine that as I do, he groans around the red-hot spit protruding from his jaws, prompting howls of laughter from the demons who pelt him with molten faeces for all eternity.

1/ Oil derricks superimposed against a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. In the foreground is Trump's hair.
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If you're lucky enough not to know about Friedman, here's the short version. Friedman was a kind of court sorcerer to Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Augusto Pinochet, and other assorted authoritarian, hard-right leaders who set us on the path to the hellscape we inhabit today.

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Feb 20
The commercial surveillance industry is almost totally unregulated. Data brokers, ad-tech, and everyone in between - they harvest, store, analyze, sell and rent every intimate, sensitive, potentially compromising fact about your life.

1/ A towering figure with the head of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' surmounted by Trump's hair, wearing a tailcoat with a Google logo lapel pin. It peers through a magnifying glass at a distressed, tiny Uncle Sam figure perched in its monstrous palm. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Late last year, I testified at a Consumer Finance Protection Bureau hearing about a proposed new rule to kill off data brokers, who are the lynchpin of the industry:



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Feb 18
In 2013, Thomas Piketty had an unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) *Capital in the 21st Century*.

1/ A Gilded Age editorial cartoon of a frowning Uncle Sam giving a blood transfusion to a gargantuan business-man whose waistcoat is labeled 'protected monopolies.' The businessman's head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background has been replaced with a halftoned EU flag whose blue field is covered in circuit-board traceries. The floor beneath the figures is an abstract, pinkish pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed....
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It offers a very convincing explanation of our political decay, and it continues to serve this purpose as the decay undergoes alarming acceleration:



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Feb 17
Theory-free inference is a hell of a drug. For years, Big Data advocates - the larval form of today's AI weirdos - have insisted that if you have enough data, you can infer causal relationships between complex phenomena without ever having to understand how x causes y.

1/ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/caliper-ai/#racism-machine A phrenological illustration of a man's face in profile, with his skull divided up into sections with illustrations of what each area is meant to govern, e.g., appetite, artistic aptitude, aggression, ardor. A pair of gleaming silver calipers, wielded by the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' measures the figure's skull. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Thus, we can slay the dread "correlation is not causation" beast. This is cousin to Milton Friedman's famous economic catechism:



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Feb 12
Remember the Tiktok ban? I know, it was ten million years ago (in Musk years, anyway), so it may have slipped your mind, but let me remind you: Congress passed a law saying Tiktok was banned. Trump said he wouldn't enforce the law. The end.

1/ An official portrait of the US Supreme Court, with the justices sitting and standing before a red velvet curtain. Their faces have been replaced with the green 'Mr Yuck' logo. Floating in the middle of the image, obscuring several judges, is the Tiktok logo, with Trump's hair.
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No, really. I mean, sure, there's a bunch of bullshit about whether Trump will pick up the ban again after Tiktok's grace period ends, depending on whether they sell themselves to his creepy wax museum pal Larry Ellison. Maybe he will.

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