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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
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* @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.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 29/
Today's top sources: @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 30/ Image

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Aug 16
When LLM users describe their experience with their chatbots, the results are so divergent that it can sound like they're describing two completely different products.

1/ A vintage photo of two men in front of a slot machine. The men's heads have been replaced by the heads of hooded figures wearing Guy Fawkes mask. The image is sepia toned: the only color is the pay-line of the slot-machine, which is showing three glaring red eyes of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The slot machine has a sign over the rotor-window that displays the Openai logo and wordmark. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Frank Schwichtenberg (modified...
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Previously, I've hypothesized that this is because there are two distinct groups of *users*: "centaurs" (people who are assisted by a machine - in this case, people who get to decide when, whether and how to integrate an LLM into their work)...

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Aug 13
It's not just that Texas DA Gocha Ramirez charged a woman with murder for having an abortion (not t allowed even in Texas). It's that Ramirez paid for his mistress's abortion, after he impregnated her while having an affair with her *and* her sister:



1/ archive.is/20250812192203…A red, angry mushroom cloud. Sitting atop it, surrounded by blue skies and fluffy clouds, is a smirking business-suited man reclining in an armchair. He wears a MAGA hat and reads a magazine turned to a page showing Donald Trump's face.
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This is perfect Magaism, as captured by Wilhoit's Law:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.



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Jul 30
Delta's announced new surveillance pricing: they're feeding an AI your nonconsensually harvested personal info that data-brokers and credit bureaux hold to predict the maximum you're willing to pay, and then price their tickets accordingly:



1/ fortune.com/2025/07/16/del…Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjurer,' which depicts a sleight-of-hand artist doing a cup-and-balls routine for a group of amazed yokels. It has been altered. The head of the conjurer has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' He wears a Delta Airlines logo over his breast. The table on which the cup-and-balls game is playing out sports a crashed jet in Delta livery, smoke rising from the wreckage. 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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Data-brokers sell all kinds of data, from the "legitimate" info about everywhere your car's been, to everywhere place the Bluetooth radios on your phone and headphones has been, to everything you've bought, to every sit you've visited and every search you've performed.

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Jul 22
Ever notice how many right wing influencers are on the grift?

1/ A carny barker at a podium, gesticulating with a MAGA cap. He wears a Klan hood, and his podium features products from Nu-skin, Amway and Herbalife. Behind him is an oil-painted scene of a steamship with a Trump Tower logo, at a pier in flames.
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Like Alex Jones - that guy is basically Gwyneth Paltrow for conservative bros, selling the same "wellness" crap to a male audience (and not for nothing, Paltrow's victims are reliable boosters for RFK Jr's MAHA movement):



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Jul 3
As fascism burns across America, it's important to remember that Trump and his policies are *not popular*.

1/ A kneeling figure, shackled hand-and-foot with ball-and-chains at his ankles. His face is that of a turn-of-the-century newsie, grinning broadly under a torn cloth cap. Behind him is a heavily halftoned neon HELP WANTED sign, askew over a indistinct black hellscape ganked from the third panel of Boschs's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'
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Sure, the racism and cruelty excites a minority of (very broken) people, but every component of the Trump agenda is *extremely* unpopular with the American people, from tax cuts for billionaires to kidnapping our neighbors and shipping them to concentration camps.

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Jul 1
If there's one are where tech has shown a consistent aptitude for innovation, it's in accounting tricks that make money-losing companies appear wildly profitable. And AI is the greatest innovator of all (when it comes to accounting gimmicks).

1/ A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill. 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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Since the dotcom era, tech companies have boasted about giving stuff away but "making it up in volume," inventing an ever-sweatier collection of shell-games that let them hide the business's true profit and loss.

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