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Mar 12, 2023 • 20 tweets • 21 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/the…

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Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal: Exhibit A for the prosecution.

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Hey look at this

* Freely readable 2023 #NebulaAwards nominees superpunch.net/2023/03/links-…

* Why Weren't #SiliconValleyBank Depositors Using CDARS? creditslips.org/creditslips/20…

* Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the net's ‘#enshittification’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/… 3/ Image
#20yrsago #Vonage reviewed mindjack.com/gear/vonage.ht…

#10yrsago Why Tim Berners-Lee is wrong about #DRM in #HTML5 theguardian.com/technology/blo…

#10yrsago Random House reconsiders and improves the standard contracts in its new ebook imprints writerbeware.blog/2013/03/12/ran… 4/ Image
#10yrsago #LibDems leave over support for secret trials; I resign from the party memex.craphound.com/2013/03/12/lib…

#10yrsago Proposed Maryland anti-zero-tolerance law would tell schools to stop suspending kids who point their fingers at each other and say “bang” freerangekids.com/right-to-bear-… 5/ Image
#10yrsago Porno-copyright trolls #PrendaLaw get hauled in front of a very angry judge techdirt.com/2013/03/11/dee…

#10yrsago Using clips from Ed Sullivan in Jersey Boys found to be #FairUse; judges award costs to deter future “chilling” copyright lawsuits web.archive.org/web/2013031411… 6/ Image
#10yrsago Hacking the Xbox, free in honor of @aaronsw nostarch.com/xboxfree

#10yrsago Scowler: nightmare-fuel horror novel about a monstrous father memex.craphound.com/2013/03/12/sco… 7/ Image
#5yrsago America, before the #EPA: the photos that the EPA commissioned to document the conditions that led to its formation popsci.com/america-before…

#1yrago A systemic (not individual) approach to #ContentModeration pluralistic.net/2022/03/12/mov… 8/ Image
Yesterday's threads: Excuseflation; 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… 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."

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Upcoming appearances:

* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, 3/20
events.iu.edu/ostromworkshop…

* @iftf Changing the Register, 3/22
iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 13/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl…

* Red Team Blues at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc… 14/ Image
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro… 15/ Image
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/2023/03/12/the… 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 "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"

doctorow.medium.com/gig-work-is-th… 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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May 27
On a recent This Machine Kills episode, guest Hagen Blix described the ultimate form of "AI therapy" with a "human in the loop":



1/ soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…A magnified image of the inside of an automated backup tape library, with gleaming racks of silver tape drives receding into the distance. In the foreground is a pile of dirt being shoveled by three figures in prisoner's stripes. Two of the figures' heads have been replaced with cliche hacker-in-hoodie heads, from which shine yellow, inverted Amazon 'smile' logos, such that the smile is a frown. The remaining figure's head has been replaced with a horse's head. Behind the figure is an impatiently posed man in a sharp business suit, frowning at his watch. His head has been replaced with the ...
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> One actual therapist is just having ten chat GPT windows open where they just like have five seconds to interrupt the chatGPT. They have to scan them all and see if it says something really inappropriate. That's your job, to stop it.

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May 21
My latest *Locus Magazine* column is "Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives," about the secret engine of sweeping political upheavals (like Trumpism) and their inherent fragility:



1/ locusmag.com/2025/05/commen…A Renaissance oil-painting of the assassination of Julius Caesar, modified to give Caesar Trump's hair and turn his skin orange, to make the knives glow, and to emboss a Heritage Foundation logo on the wall behind the scene.
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Stories about major change usually focus on a *group*, but groups rarely achieve big, ambitious goals. Think about all the goal-oriented groups in your orbit, with missions like alleviating hunger, or beautifying your neighborhood, or changing the health-care system.

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May 14
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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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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It's a very well-argued piece, and here's the nut of it:

> 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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