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Feb 27, 2023 • 20 tweets • 19 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Podcasting "Twiddler"; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/kno…

#Pluralistic 1/ A mandala made from a knob and button-covered control panel.
This Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. In-person and virtual attendance are free:

brusselsconference.com/registration

On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:

elevate.at/diskurs/progra… 2/
Podcasting "Twiddler": What makes digital platforms so enshittification prone?

TK 3/ Image: Stephen Drake (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.o
Hey look at this

* More on the Interest-Income Channel stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/more-on-the-… 4/
#15yrsago GOP Senate hopeful got rich diverting #corpsemeat from burn victims to enlarge penises web.archive.org/web/2008022917…

#15yrsago More #AbuGhraib torture photos wired.com/2008/03/galler… 5/
#10yrsago Akata Witch: young adult hero’s journey of a Nigerian witch memex.craphound.com/2013/02/27/aka…

#5yrsago #Trumpcare added $33B to government healthcare spending, in order to cover 8.9m fewer Americans, who will pay more for less latimes.com/business/hiltz… 6/
#5yrsago Senior #BenCarson staffer says she was demoted for refusing to “find money” to spend on lavish publicly funded perks for Carson’s home and office cnn.com/2018/02/27/pol… 7/
#5yrsago #BlueCross employees are instructed to donate to the boss’s daughter, a “Democrat” who opposes #SinglePayer truthout.org/articles/blue-…

#1yrago Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/not… 8/
Yesterday's threads: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia; and more!

9/
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… 10/
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… 11/
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/ 12/
Upcoming appearances:

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

* @ElevateFestival (#Graz), 3/3
elevate.at/diskurs/progra…

* Seize the Means of Computation (TU Wein), 3/7
informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2373

* @utsdct (#Austin), 3/9 13/
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-… 14/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture (@umanitobasci), 3/9
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…

* @SXSW #ChokepointCapitalism reading (#Austin), 3/10
schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 15/
Recent appearances:

* @ANUmedia/@canberratimes Meet The Author
soundcloud.com/experience_anu…

* The Gould Standard
pod.link/thegouldstanda…

* @RNDrive:
abc.net.au/radionational/… 16/
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/2023/02/27/kno… 17/
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 "United We Stand: Creation is collective - and so is bargaining"

doctorow.medium.com/united-we-stan… 18/
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!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 19/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? You can read my work elsewhere, but it is now a #TwitterCrime to tell you how. Please visit my site, pluralistic.net, for links to find me on less-unhinged places (I can only imagine that my days here are numbered). 20/

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Something's very different in tech. Once upon a time, every bad choice by tech companies - taking away features, locking out mods or plugins, nerfing the API - was countered, nearly instantaneously, by someone writing a program that overrode that choice.

1/ A 19th century engraving of fiendishly complex machine composed of thousands of interlocking gears and frames (originally an image of a printing press, but modified so that it's just all gears and things), colored dark blue. It bears Woody Guthrie's guitar sticker, 'This machine KILLS fascists. To one side of it stands an image of Ned Ludd, taken from an infamous 19th century Luddite handbill, waving troops into battle. King Ludd's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie, the face within lost in shadow.
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Bad clients would be muscled aside by third-party clients. Locked bootloaders would be hacked and replaced. Code that confirmed you were using OEM parts, consumables or adapters would be found and nuked from orbit.

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May 13
"Understood: Who Broke the Internet?" is my new podcast for CBC about the enshittogenic policy decisions that gave rise to enshittification. Episode two just dropped: "ctrl-ctrl-ctrl":



1/ cbc.ca/listen/cbc-pod…The logo for 'Who Broke the Internet' - a shattered hard-drive with the CBC logomark.
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The thesis of the show is straightforward: the internet wasn't killed by ideological failings like "greed," nor by economic concepts like "network effects," nor by some cyclic force of history that drives towards "re-intermediation."

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May 2
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

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Inside: AI and the fatfinger economy; and more!

Archived at:

#Pluralistic

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Catch me in NEW ZEALAND at UNITY BOOKS in WELLINGTON TODAY (May 3, 3PM):

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More tour dates (PDX, Pittsburgh, London, Manchester) here:

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AI and the fatfinger economy: Every slip of the finger in money in the bank.



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Patrick "patio11" McKenzie is a fantastic explainer, the kind of person who breaks topics down in ways that stay with you, and creep into your understanding of other subjects, too. Take his 2022 essay, "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero":



1/ bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optima…A rainforest in Chiapas, green and intergrown.
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> The marginal return of permitting fraud against you is plausibly greater than zero, and therefore, you should welcome greater than zero fraud.

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Astrophysicist Adam Becker knows a bit about science and tech - enough to show, in his book *More Everything Forever* that claims tech bros make about space colonies, mind uploading, and other skiffy subjects are nonsense dressed up as prediction:



1/ hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-be…The Basic Books cover for Adam Becker's 'More Everything Faster.'
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