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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Oct 13, 2022 • 30 tweets • 30 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/10/13/sic…

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I'm in #Miami!

Catch me today (Oct 13) at @JoinLincoln's Reboot Conference:

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US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care: Medicare Advantage will murder your grandparents - and you're next.

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Hey look at this

* How Flashbots is taking over Ethereum block proposals protos.com/how-flashbots-…

* The Polyhedral Perspective publicdomainreview.org/essay/polyhedr…

* One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross” uxdesign.cc/how-apple-make… (h/t @BoingBoing) 4/ Image
#15yrsago First-ever patent-suit filed against Linux groklaw.net/article.php?st…

#15yrsago HOWTO cite blogs in formal academic medical papers ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7266/ 5/ Image
#10yrsago California AG publicly shames United Airlines on Twitter over crappy privacy policy latimes.com/business/la-xp…

#10yrsago Videos from the HOPE 2004 conference: Jello Biafra, Woz, Schneier, Mitnick and more web.archive.org/web/2012103000… 6/ Image
#10yrsago UK surveillance bill: 19,000 letters opposing, 0 in favour web.archive.org/web/2012101500…

#10yrsago Myhrvold patents 3D printing DRM web.archive.org/web/2012101404…

#10yrsago Scanning whole books is fair use arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 7/ Image
#10yrsago Photos from backstage at Disneyland imgur.com/a/TJQYm

#5yrsago How do you dump the firmware from a “secure” voting machine? With a $15 open source hardware board blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/11/ft2… 8/ Image
#5yrsago Portland police stage bizarre sensory deprivation stunt against ICE protesters

#5yrsago The US has quit UNESCO, the UN agency that protects world heritage sites and teaches poor children to read vice.com/en/article/gy5… 9/ Image
#5yrsago China’s 1 percenters are now worth as much as the GDP of the United Kingdom scmp.com/business/china…

#5yrsago Here are the three most common dishonest arguments used to derail universal healthcare proposals latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/… 10/ Image
#5yrsago Yet another Trump official accused of defrauding taxpayers with dirty travel expenses cnn.com/2017/10/11/pol…

#5yrsago Trump’s FCC redefines “effective competition” to include having only one ISP in your county techdirt.com/2017/10/12/gro… 11/ Image
#5yrsago Here’s what hospital food looks like in Japan web.archive.org/web/2017100606…

#5yrsago Chinese internet censors really enjoy the work scmp.com/news/china/pol…

#5yrsago You are the elevator captain: a guide to Japan’s unspoken elevator etiquette medium.com/japan-init/ele… 12/ Image
#5yrsago Equifax is serving malware to visitors arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago How the University of New Hampshire spun blowing a frugal librarian’s donation on a stupid football scoreboard deadspin.com/how-unh-turned… 13/ Image
#1yrago There are no corporate criminals in America: Because America doesn't have corporate crime prosecutions pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-…

#1yrago This Thing Between Us, a neck-hair-stand-up cuycuy horror: Gus Moreno's debut novel pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-… 14/ Image
#1yrago India funded a starving kids' app, but not food: Solutionism at its worst pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/the…

#1yrago Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware: A free-as-in-surveillance-free Flash installer is gone thanks to a bogus copyright claim pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/the… 15/ Image
#1yrago Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers: "Resubscribe or we'll keep trashing your credit report." pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/the… 16/ Image
Monday's threads: Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning; Shelter in place; and more!

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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

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Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) 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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Reboot Conference, @JoinLincoln (Miami), 10/13
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* Copyright Evidence: Synthesis and Futures – @copyrightcentre (Glasgow), Oct 17
create.ac.uk/copyright-evid…

* @LibraryJournal Day of Dialog (Zoom), 10/20
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism Event, @ArgoBookshop (Montreal), Oct 23
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* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics, with @rushkoff and @rgibli, Ottawa @Writersfest, 10/24
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @WEDF_forum, 10/26-28
worldethicaldataforum.org/registration

* #RadicalBookFair/@Lighthousebks (Edinburgh), Nov 10
lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepo…

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
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Recent appearances:

* Regulating the Online Public Sphere (@ColumbiaGFoE)


* Canadians Connected 2022 with @ambermac:


* Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon (@trashfuturepod)
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Happy #SpookySeason! My picture book "Poesy the Monster Slayer" is the perfect read for your little monsters: it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by @mcrockefeller.

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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/2022/10/13/sic… 26/
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.

My latest Medium column is "Bankruptcy protects fake people, brutalizes real ones"

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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!

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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

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Today's top sources: @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 30/ Image

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Dec 9
I have a weird fascination with early-stage Bill Gates, after his mother convinced a pal of hers - chairman of IBM's board of directors - to give her son the contract to provide the operating system for the new IBM PC.

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Gates and his pal Paul Allen tricked another programmer into selling them the rights to DOS, which they sold to IBM, setting Microsoft on the path to be one of the most profitable businesses in human history.

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Nov 20
Well, this fucking *sucks*. A federal judge has decided that Meta is not a monopolist, and that its acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp were not an illegal bid to secure and maintain a monopoly:



1/ gizmodo.com/meta-learns-th…The classic Puck Magazine editorial cartoon entitled 'The King of All Commodities,' depicting John D Rockefeller as a man with grotesquely tiny body and a gigantic head, wearing a crown emblazoned with the names of the industrial concerns he owned. Rockefeller's head has been replaced with that of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The names of the industrial concerns have been replaced with the wordmarks for Scale AI, Instagram, Oculus and Whatsapp. The dollar-sign at the crown's pinnacle has been replaced with the Facebook 'f' logo. The chain around Rockefeller's neck sports the charm th...
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This is particularly galling because Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly, explicitly declared that these mergers were undertaken *to reduce competition*, which is the only circumstance in which pro-monopoly economists and lawyers say that mergers should be blocked.

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Nov 18
Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called *Who Censored Roger Rabbit?* which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called *Who Framed Roger Rabbit?*

1/ The final scene of Disneyland's 'Roger Rabbit's Toontown Spin,' in which Roger Rabbit is deploying a pair of portable holes; the holes have been replaced with copyright symbols, which are partially cropped. Image: Ken Lund (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlund/16775732643/ CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
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But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length sequels.

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Nov 8
A blockbuster Reuters report by Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked internal documents that reveal that: 10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because...

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Nov 7
While I formulated the idea of enshittification to refer to digital platforms and their specific technical characteristics, economics and history, I am very excited to see other theorists extend the idea of enshittification beyond tech and into wider policy realms.

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There's an easy, loose way to do this, which is using "enshittification" to refer to "things generally getting worse." To be clear, I am *fine* with this:



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Amazon made $35b profit last year. They're celebrating by firing 14k workers (a number they say will rise to 30k). It's the kind of thing Wall St loves. It comes after a string of pronouncements from Andy Jassy about how AI is going to let him fire *tons* of workers.

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That's the AI story, after all. It's not about making workers more productive or creative.

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