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Inside: The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/ten…

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Today (3/10), @Rgibli and I kick off the @SXSW reading series:

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The Right accuses their critics of the conspiracy they themselves engage in: Teneo works exactly like their claims about the nonexistent Vast Leftist Conspiracy.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1634192612054691840

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* How 3 Mergers Buttressed Google’s Adtech Monopoly techpolicy.press/how-three-merg…

* HP outrages users with update bricking third-party ink arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…

* Silicon Valley Bank scrambles to reassure clients after 60% wipe-out reuters.com/business/finan… (h/t @NB_Chris) 4/

#20yrsago #Google notes from #SXSW cruftbox.com/blog/archives/…

#15yrsago Rules against questioning security make us less secure theguardian.com/technology/200…

#15yrsago Presidential candidates as #MonsterManual monsters antipope.org/charlie/blog-s… 5/

#15yrsago Canada’s #DMCA: unnecessary, ill-starred and doomed web.archive.org/web/2008031302…

#15yrsago #Schneier: transparency is not security wired.com/2008/03/securi…

#15yrsago Maximum City: exhausting and beautiful love-note to #Mumbai memex.craphound.com/2008/03/10/max… 6/

#15yrsago FBI interrogator: #Torture doesn’t work, breeds terrorism

#5yrsago Bad news: #Omega3s don’t confer any significant health benefits; good news: They’re mostly harmless jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac… 7/

#5yrsago #Wikimedia’s transparency report is a joy diff.wikimedia.org/2018/03/06/wik…

#5yrsago Thinking in Bets: a poker-master’s Jedi mind-trick for being less wrong memex.craphound.com/2018/03/10/thi… 8/

Yesterday's threads: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1633890957207715858

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* @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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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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