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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Google's chatbot panic; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/twe…

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This is the last day (Feb 17) of my #Australian tour for my book #ChokepointCapitalism with my co-author, #rgibli. We'll be in #Canberra at the Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum:

digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doc… 2/

Google's chatbot panic: On the infinite insecurities of a self-styled creative genius who really just buys other people's ideas.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1626313663232589825

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Hey look at this

* Homemade soccer balls around the world jessicahilltout.com/work/personal/… (h/t @Kottke)

* Amazon Takes a 50% Cut of Seller's Revenue marketplacepulse.com/articles/amazo… (h/t @DanGillmor)

* A Concerning Trend neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-t… (h/t @Metafilter) 4/

#20yrsago Google buy #Pyra interconnected.org/notes/2003/02/…

#20yrsago Altrustic routers would optimize the Internet web.archive.org/web/2003020100…

#10yrsago Economic recovery in the US actually made 99% of Americans poorer, top 1% captured 121% of gains nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/yes-vi… 5/

#10yrsago #BBC betrays the public, demands #DRM for #HTML5 web.archive.org/web/2013021604…

#10yrsago Holmes scholar files suit to put #Sherlock unambiguously into the public domain web.archive.org/web/2013021902… 6/

#10yrsago Memoir of raising an autistic boy who found himself with ##DisneyWorld’s help memex.craphound.com/2013/02/16/mem…

#5yrsago FDAAA Trials Tracker: leaderboard for pharma companies that break FDA clinical trial rules biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 7/

#5yrsago A public-key #cryptography primer in the form of #Ikea instructions idea-instructions.com/public-key/

#5yrsago Once again, a #stalkerware company’s had its servers pwned and wiped by a hacker who thinks they’re selling an immoral product vice.com/en/article/3k7… 8/

#5yrsago Surge-taxing Uber as a way relieve urban congestion wired.com/story/uber-lyf…

#5yrsago Debullshitifying #Uber’s financial statement reveals a hemorrhaging fountain of red ink with no path to profitability nakedcapitalism.com/2018/02/can-ub… 9/

#5yrsago The #DHS’s “#ActiveShooter” printable wallet card, for when “thoughts and prayers” fail web.archive.org/web/2018021719…

#5yrsago New York Federal judge rules that embedding tweets can violate copyright law eff.org/deeplinks/2018… 10/

#5yrsago The independent experts who favorably evaluated #Facebook’s “Messenger Kids” were funded by Facebook wired.com/story/facebook…

#5yrsago Judge slams ICE for targeting migrants based on their political opposition to ICE shadowproof.com/2018/02/09/fir… 11/

#5yrsago The #pharma billionaires whose family company created the #opioid epidemic are disintegrating into a bickering mess theguardian.com/us-news/2018/f…

#5yrsago London demonstrates the stupid, janky future of #SmartCities theatlantic.com/technology/arc… 12/

#5yrsago The West Virginia Democrat candidate who was dragged away for calling out gas-money-dependent lawmakers has raised record-breaking sums theintercept.com/2018/02/13/can…

#1yrago #McKinsey For Kids (no, really) pluralistic.net/2022/02/15/man… 13/

#1yrago Oh great, there's #DRM in printer PAPER now pluralistic.net/2022/02/16/una…

#1yrago The extremely shady "educational integrity" industry pluralistic.net/2022/02/16/una… 14/

Wednesday's threads: Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments"; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1625573155099009040

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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:

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

* #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy (#Brussels), 3/2:
brusselsconference.com/registration 19/

Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @SXSW #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 2/10
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 20/

Recent appearances:

* The Gould Standard
pod.link/thegouldstanda…

* @RNDrive:
abc.net.au/radionational/…

* How popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies (@tninstitute)
tni.org/en/podcast/how… 21/

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