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Inside: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…

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Today (3/9), I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:

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And remote at #UManitoba:

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Tomorrow (3/10), @rgibli and I kick off @sxsw's readings:

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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.

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Hey look at this

* Burning Men by @mariafarrell westerlymag.com.au/burning-men-by…

* @GigiSohn’s Full Statement On Withdrawing Her @FCC Nomination techdirt.com/2023/03/08/gig…

* @UAW on Brink of Unprecedented Leadership Upset theintercept.com/2023/03/07/uaw… 4/

#20yrsago @nytimes reviews Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom nytimes.com/2003/03/09/boo…

#20yrsago Notes from “Doing Good Online” web.archive.org/web/2003060412…

#20yrsago Left-wing media bias? In your dreams web.archive.org/web/2003041109… 5/

#15yrsago @usairforce lawyers send #DMCA notice to YouTube wired.com/2008/03/air-fo…

#15yrsago Cal State U forced to re-hire #Quaker math teacher who inserted “non-violently” into loyalty oath latimes.com/archives/la-xp… 6/

#10yrsago AP: #HugoChavez made “meager” gains, only reduced poverty, didn’t build the world’s tallest building fair.org/home/ap-chavez…

#15yrsago Society of Automotive Engineers kills #DRM on its journal following MIT boycott web.archive.org/web/2008030813… 7/

#15yrsago Flowchart: How D&;D is a gateway drug to every flavor of nerdiness nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opi…

#10yrsago Welcome to your Awesome Robot: instructional comic turns kids & cardboard boxes into AWESOME ROBOTS! memex.craphound.com/2013/03/09/wel… 8/

#10yrsago US Ninth Circuit says forensic #LaptopSearches at the border without suspicion are unconstitional techdirt.com/2013/03/08/9th…

#10yrsago @AustinChronicle on @aaronsw and the future of computers austinchronicle.com/screens/2013-0… 9/

#10yrsago Random House responds to @sfwa on its Hydra ebook imprint publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/di…

#10yrsago NYPD will arrest you for carrying condoms: the women/trans/genderqueer version of stop-and-frisk vice.com/en/article/3b5… 10/

#10yrsago Canada’s National Post pretends #FairDealing doesn’t exist, presents you with bill to copy a single word web.archive.org/web/2013031110…

#5yrsago A mechanical, wooden #TuringMachine 11/

#5yrsago Florida students succeed where so many have failed, force state legislature to pass #GunControl rules despite ferocious @NRA lobbying washingtonpost.com/politics/flori… 12/

#5yrsago Vendor lock-in, #DRM, and crappy #EULAs are turning America’s independent #farmers into tenant farmers vice.com/en/article/a34…

#5yrsago A critical statistics education that fits on a postcard timharford.com/2018/03/your-h… 13/

#5yrsago An algorithm that converts 3D meshes into machine-knitting patterns textiles-lab.github.io/publications/2…

#5yrsago After @Airbnb hosts converted New York’s available housing stock to unlicensed hotel rooms, rents soared mcgill.ca/newsroom/files… 14/

#5yrsago The company that turned #Grenfell Tower into a deathtrap reports profits up 50% and anticipates no downside from the disaster theguardian.com/business/2018/… 15/

#5yrsago The Warrior Within: a tight science fiction novella about a warrior who contains multitudes memex.craphound.com/2018/03/08/the…

#5yrsago How denialists weaponize media literacy and what to do about it 16/

#5yrsago Machine learning models keep getting spoofed by adversarial attacks and it’s not clear if this can ever be fixed wired.com/story/ai-has-a…

#5yrsago RIP #JohnSulston, open science hero and father of the #HumanGenomeProject phys.org/news/2018-03-j… 17/

#1yrago The cruelty isn't the point: The point is power pluralistic.net/2022/03/09/tur…

#1yrago The #DawnOfEverything: An essential reminder that we are in charge of our own destiny pluralistic.net/2022/03/08/thr…

#1yrago How and why to break up #BigTech pluralistic.net/2022/03/08/thr… 18/

Tuesday's threads: End to End; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1633093293687861250

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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:

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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:

* @utsdct (#Austin), 3/9
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* Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture (@umanitobasci), 3/9
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, 3/20
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* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
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* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
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Recent appearances:

* @RuBlackListNET Privacy Day


* Factually With @adamconover:
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* Making Big Tech Better vs Making it Smaller (@BruxConf2023):
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