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

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

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

#Pluralistic 1/ A graph depicting the Gartn...
Today (3/9), I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:

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And remote at #UManitoba:

eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…

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

schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/
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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
#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/ Image
Tuesday's threads: End to End; 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… 20/
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… 21/
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/ 22/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

* @utsdct (#Austin), 3/9
eventbrite.com/e/the-buckman-…

* Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture (@umanitobasci), 3/9
eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e… 23/ Image
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
events.iu.edu/ostromworkshop… 24/ Image
* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
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Recent appearances:

* @RuBlackListNET Privacy Day


* Factually With @adamconover:
stitcher.com/show/factually…

* Making Big Tech Better vs Making it Smaller (@BruxConf2023):
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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/2023/03/09/aut… 27/
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 "They’re still trying to ban cryptography"

doctorow.medium.com/theyre-still-t… 28/
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 29/
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). 30/
Today's top sources: @slashdot (slashdot.org), @jjn1 (memex.naughtons.org). 31/ Image

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Delta's announced new surveillance pricing: they're feeding an AI your nonconsensually harvested personal info that data-brokers and credit bureaux hold to predict the maximum you're willing to pay, and then price their tickets accordingly:



1/ fortune.com/2025/07/16/del…Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjurer,' which depicts a sleight-of-hand artist doing a cup-and-balls routine for a group of amazed yokels. It has been altered. The head of the conjurer has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' He wears a Delta Airlines logo over his breast. The table on which the cup-and-balls game is playing out sports a crashed jet in Delta livery, smoke rising from the wreckage. 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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Ever notice how many right wing influencers are on the grift?

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As fascism burns across America, it's important to remember that Trump and his policies are *not popular*.

1/ A kneeling figure, shackled hand-and-foot with ball-and-chains at his ankles. His face is that of a turn-of-the-century newsie, grinning broadly under a torn cloth cap. Behind him is a heavily halftoned neon HELP WANTED sign, askew over a indistinct black hellscape ganked from the third panel of Boschs's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'
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If there's one are where tech has shown a consistent aptitude for innovation, it's in accounting tricks that make money-losing companies appear wildly profitable. And AI is the greatest innovator of all (when it comes to accounting gimmicks).

1/ A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill. 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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In 2014, I read a political science paper that nearly convinced me to quit my lifelong career as an activist: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens," published in *Perspectives on Politics*:



1/ cambridge.org/core/journals/…An inflatable pig balloon against a blue sky, bearing the Zohran for Mayor logo. The Chrysler Building sits to one side. Image: Frank Vincentz (modified) https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geeste_-_Biener_Stra%C3%9Fe_-_Speicherbecken_-_Drachenfest_38_ies.jpg Petri Krohn https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrysler_building-_top.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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When a company sells you something for $2 that someone else can buy for $1, they're revaluing the dollars in your pocket at half the rate of the other guy's.

1/ A busy 1950s grocery store. The scene has been altered: the massive, menacing, glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' hovers over the store, shooting red beams into the cash register. The store -- but not the shoppers at its front -- is suffused with red light. 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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