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

Inside: This "inflation" is different; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/14/med…

#Pluralistic 1/ A vintage postcard illustra...
This "inflation" is different: New Stiglitz just dropped.

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Hey look at this

* Flickr establishes a nonprofit to oversee its commons flickr.org/why-were-doing…

* Dead End Customer Service deadendcustomerservice.com

* Youth Hacking 4 Freedom contest fsfe.org/news/2022/news… 3/ Image
#15yrsago @Nature releases genome papers under @creativecommons licenses nature.com/articles/45076…

#15yrsago Federal shredding budget soars web.archive.org/web/2008011623…

#15yrsago First-person account of CIA torture survivor salon.com/2007/12/15/bas… 4/ Image
#15yrsago Canada’s DMCA: CBC radio’s Search Engine on the demonstrations and awesome Parliamentary bun-fight that followed web.archive.org/web/2007121420…

#10yrsago Top Pentagon propagandist boasted of running a smear campaign against USA Today usatoday.com/story/news/nat… 5/ Image
#10yrsago What today’s Web can learn from the Web of the early 2000s web.archive.org/web/2012121420…

#10yrsago Police want anarchists to remove files recovered from lost (cop?) thumb-drive styleweekly.com/richmond/watch… 6/ Image
#10yrsago The TSA is an irredeemable shitshow, part ten bazillion web.archive.org/web/2012121422…

#5yrsago San Francisco SPCA uses a robot to chase away homeless people, because cruelty to humans is just fine bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n… 7/ Image
#5yrsago @AjitPai makes a “funny” video dismissing Net Neutrality advocates for fringe-right site avclub.com/the-fccs-ajit-… 8/ Image
#5yrsago Protesters flood the Senate, calling for a delay in voting on the GOP tax plan until new Alabama Senator Doug Jones is seated americanindependent.com/no-jones-no-vo… 9/ Image
#5yrsago How killing Net Neutrality irreparably harms public libraries and the communities they serve theverge.com/2017/12/14/167…

#5yrsago A proposed Australian leaker law will put journalists and whistleblowers in jail for 20 years buzzfeed.com/paulfarrell/au… 10/ Image
#5yrsago Cheap dates: here’s how little it cost the telcoms sector to buy Congress and murder Net Neutrality vice.com/en/article/7xw…

#5yrsago @PikettyLeMonde and 100 researchers: inequality is getting worse, and will continue to worsen wir2018.wid.world/files/download… 11/ Image
#5yrsago Disney buys Fox in all-stock deal, making Rupert Murdoch the largest shareholder in the company nytimes.com/2017/12/14/bus…

#5yrsago Just before the @FCC’s cowardly vote to kill Net Neutrality, they had to evacuate due to “security advice” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 12/ Image
Yesterday's threads: Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices; 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… 14/
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… 15/
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/ 16/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (New Orleans), 1/27-30
2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow

* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 17/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 18/ Image
Recent appearances:

* How to take back the arts from Big Tech (@TheRealNews)


* @dartsandletters:
dartsandletters.ca/2022/12/12/ep7…

* @bubtroubpodcast (Part 2)
bubbletroublepodcast.com/chokepoint-cap…

* Corporate Power (@privacyint)
media.privacyinternational.org/w/fKu4rZFZMCFZ… 19/ Image
Recent appearances (cont'd):

* Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and Chokepoint Capitalism (@zingales)
capitalisnt.com/episodes/taylo… 20/ Image
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/2022/12/14/med… 21/
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 "Plato Would Ban Ad-Blockers: He was a dick."

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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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Mar 10
Inflation has many complex causes and dynamics, but this much should be obvious: when prices go up, and the *profits* go up, the price rise - the "inflation" is in part the result of greed - it's greedflation.

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Orthodox economists insist that greedflation is impossible. Sure, companies would *prefer* to jack up prices, but if they do, other companies would rush inn to sell more cheaply.

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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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