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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Nov 13, 2022 • 26 tweets • 26 min read • Read on X
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Inside: The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever broken; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/11/13/gra…

#Pluralistic 1/ A disassembled Framework laptop; a man's hand reaches into t
Hey #DC! There's a *very special* invite-only book party for "Chokepoint Capitalism" on Nov 17 and while it's not a public event, there's a limited number of spaces I can distribute on a first come/first serve basis. If you'd like to come, email doctorow@craphound.com! 2/
Today (11/13), I'm presenting at @AaronSwartzDay:
aaronswartzday.org/asd-2022-lives…

11/16, I'm in DC for the Arthur C Clarke Award:
clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-ev…

11/17, I'm part of a @library_futures webinar:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 3/
The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever broken: If you only pay attention to how things work, you'll be screwed when they fail.

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Hey look at this

* It's Not Just You: NYC Has a Serious Dungeon Master Shortage hellgatenyc.com/no-on-wants-to… (h/t @YvesSmith)

* FTC Restores Rigorous Enforcement of Law Banning Unfair Methods of Competition ftc.gov/news-events/ne… (h/t Brooke Fox) 5/
#20yrsago Argentina: stranger than fiction infinitematrix.net/columns/sterli…

#20yrsago Reliable TCP’s weird symbiosis with unreliable IP joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the…

#15yrsago John @Scalzi’s snarky science fiction tour of the Creation Museum whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/12/you… 6/
#15yrsago Geek Mafia: Mile Zero: nerdy caper novel, the sequel memex.craphound.com/2007/11/12/gee…

#15yrsago A dusty epidemic of cremains at Disneyland web.archive.org/web/2007121302…

#15yrsago JK Rowling sues to stop publication of Potter reference book web.archive.org/web/2007111504… 7/
#15yrsago Gitmo operating manual leak web.archive.org/web/2007121609…

#15yrsago Magic and Showmanship: Classic book about conjuring has many lessons for writers memex.craphound.com/2007/11/13/mag…

#10yrsago UPS to Scouts: no more money until you drop anti-gay policy bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2… 8/
#10yrsago Wall Street is not made up of “numbers guys” scienceblogs.com/principles/201…

#10yrsago Tune: Derek Kirk Kim’s alien abduction romcom memex.craphound.com/2012/11/13/tun…

#10yrsago Ken Macleod on socialism, Singularity, and the rapture of the nerds web.archive.org/web/2013012109… 9/
#10yrsago Super Scratch Programming Adventure! an excellent way to get started in Scratch memex.craphound.com/2012/11/12/sup…

#5yrsago Equifax’s total bill for leaking 145.5 million US records to date: $87.5 million bleepingcomputer.com/news/business/… 10/
#5yrsago One week after release, iPhone X’s Face ID reportedly defeated by a $150 mask theverge.com/2017/11/13/166…

#5yrsago The secretive wealthy family behind the opioid epidemic are using the same tactics to kill public education salon.com/2017/11/15/the… 11/
#5yrsago Bernie Sanders: to fix the Democratic Party, curb superdelegates, make it easier to vote in primaries, and account for funds politico.com/magazine/story… 12/
#5yrsago Watson for Oncology isn’t an AI that fights cancer, it’s an unproven mechanical turk that represents the guesses of a small group of doctors statnews.com/2017/09/05/wat… 13/
#5yrsago Roy Moore’s scandal is just the tip of American evangelical Christianity’s child bride problem web.archive.org/web/2017111904…

#1yrago How to be safe(r) online pluralistic.net/2021/11/13/ops…

#1yrago American corporate criminals in the crosshairs (finally) pluralistic.net/2021/11/12/wit… 14/
Friday's threads: Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable; and more!

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

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

booksoup.com/book/978080700… 16/
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:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 17/
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."

craphound.com/shop/ 18/
Upcoming appearances:

* @AaronSwartzDay and International Hackathon, Nov 13:
aaronswartzday.org/asd-2022-lives…

* Arthur C Clarke Award (DC), 11/16
clarkefoundation.org/2022-awards-ev…

* @library_futures Webinar, 11/17
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 19/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Chokepoint Capitalism at @ThePeale Museum (Baltimore), 11/18:
thepeale.org/event/book-tal…

* Big Ideas Live (London), 11/19
news.sky.com/bigideaslive

* Conversation with @Superwuster, #Informed22/@knightfdn (Miami), 11/30:
informed22.interkinnect.com 20/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 21/
Recent appearances:

* How big tech traps consumers and shafts creators (@IrishTimes)
shows.acast.com/inside-politic…

* Copyright Waffle (@UKCopyrightLit)
soundcloud.com/user-243274189…

* Surviving Apocalyptic Economics (@teamhumanshow)
teamhuman.fm/episodes/survi… 22/
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/2022/11/13/gra… 23/
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 "The End of the Road to Serfdom"

doctorow.medium.com/the-end-of-the… 24/
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Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 25/
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… 26/

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Sep 8
This was the plan: America would stop making things and instead make *recipes*, the "IP" that could be sent to other countries to turn into actual *stuff*.

1/ An organ grinder with a monkey. The organ grinder's head has been replaced with a Gilded Age caricature of a sneering millionaire. The monkey's head has been replaced with the head of a miserable child coal miner. The background is a blurred, halftoned view of a vast square in Beijing with a giant official building in the background, and a Chinese flag on a flagpole. On the organ is a blurred portrait of John Philip Sousa.
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This would happen in distant lands without the pesky environmental and labor rules that forced businesses accept reduced profits because they weren't allowed to maim their workers and poison the land, air and water.

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Sep 6
Trump's doing a lot of oligarch shit, and while some of it very visible and obvious, other moves, like throwing the door open to "stock buybacks" are technical and obscure.

1/ An old-timey carny barker, waving a cane and shouting. He is standing in front of a vintage photo of the NYSE trading floor.
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But it's worth paying attention to this, because this form of stock swindle stands to make billionaires a lot richer (and thus more powerful).

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Aug 20
Forget surveillance capitalism - let's talk about *surveillance infantalism*: the drive by the wealthy to spy on you in order to pursue the toddler's goals of getting everything they want from the people around them, without any reciprocal obligations.

1/ Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse avatar's head atop the body of a figure from a earth 20th century editorial cartoon; the figure wears a suit, holds a long fork, and stares into the eyepiece of a microscope. The microscope is attached to a sinister scientific apparatus. The microscope is trained on a tiny human figure, limned in red, who shouts through a megaphone back up into the microscope's lens. The background is a 1980s NASA oil painting of the red, rocky surface of Venus.
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After the Snowden revelations, I started to wonder about something fundamental: why spy at all?



3/theguardian.com/technology/201…
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Aug 18
When Elon Musk disagrees with someone, he calls them an "NPC" (non-player character). In video-games, an NPC is a machine-puppeted sprite that engages in predictable movements (e.g. Pac-Man ghosts) and utters some scripted (or AI-generated) dialog:



1/ futurism.com/elon-musk-inte…Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar, perched on a legless nude Ken doll body; its eyes are psychedelic pinwheels. Behind the figure is a group shot of child laborer miners from the 1910s, glitched out, blue tinted, and covered with scan lines. The background is a psychedelic swirl of moody colors. They stand atop a filthy checkerboard floor that stretches off to infinity.
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Seeing people as automata is probably a side-effect of sitting in the command-center of a big online service, in which you primarily interact with users as statistical aggregates in an analytics dashboard.

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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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