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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Mar 15, 2023 • 35 tweets • 40 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon…

#Pluralistic 1/ A sign reading 'This is not Disneyland! Do not let children
Next Monday (Mar 20), I'm doing a remote talk for the @Ostrom_Workshop's Beyond the Web Speaker Series

iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist… 2/
Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists: What they think we think.

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Hey look at this

* #RollyCrump dies: @Disney designer helped define Disneyland latimes.com/entertainment-…

* Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It kottke.org/23/03/kottke-i…

* Pierce and the Purple Moon pierceandthepurplemoon.com 4/
#20yrsago #MichaelMoorcock savages #PKD theguardian.com/books/2003/mar…

#20yrsago Airport luggage inspectors policing thoughtcrime web.archive.org/web/2003032120…

#20yrsago Will ultrawideband (finally) kill Bluetooth? web.archive.org/web/2003050105… 5/
#20yrsago @NatalieMerchant abandons the recording industry nytimes.com/2003/03/13/art…

#20yrsago My talk from the @EFFAustin party audio web.archive.org/web/2005090822…

#20yrsago Blogs are novelists’ notebooks (too) web.archive.org/web/2003040201… 6/
#15yrsago @BBC’s #iPlayer #DRM cracked again po-ru.com/2008/03/13/bbc…

#15yrsago True Names: story podcast about the warring superintelligences of the Singularity craphound.com/news/2008/03/1…

#15yrsago @TerryAndRob donates $1 million to #Alzheimer’s research web.archive.org/web/2008031301… 7/
#15yrsago @RIAA’s unethical investigations to be dragged into the open in court case arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#15yrsago House votes against telcom immunity for illegal wiretapping wired.com/2008/03/house-… 8/
#15yrsago Finnish MP proposes week-long “love vacation” law web.archive.org/web/2008031817…

#15yrsago @TSA officials running illegal private consultancy? web.archive.org/web/2008031817…

#10yrsago Legal issues in Pirate Cinema analyzed by IP lawyer lawandthemultiverse.com/2013/03/15/pir… 9/
#10yrsago #Makies in Make: makezine.com/article/digita…

#10yrsago Weird probabilities of non-transitive “#GrimeDice”

#10yrsago @AaronSw defense: prosecutor #SteveHeymann deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence huffpost.com/entry/aaron-sw… 10/
#10yrsago English town council wants to abolish apostrophes in street-names to end “confusion” theguardian.com/society/2013/m…

#10yrsago #NationalPost wants to copyright article titles excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2013/03/warman… 11/
#10yrsago Transcripts of bullying voicemails left by porno copyright troll to ex-caretaker and alleged identity theft victim techdirt.com/2013/03/14/tra…

#10yrsago Review of Nineteen Eighty-Four from 1949 newstatesman.com/culture/2013/0… 12/
#10yrsago Texas cop repeatedly tazes the Statue of Liberty loweringthebar.net/2013/03/tasing…

#10yrsago #AaronSwartz’s unfinished monograph on the “programmable Web” web.archive.org/web/2017042701…

#10yrsago #SherlockHolmes copyrights are an insane hairball thegotham.org/resources/sher… 13/
#5yrsago Amazing Tales: a storytelling game with dice for kids and grownups memex.craphound.com/2018/03/13/ama…

#5yrsago Monsters Beware! is the long-awaited sequel to Giants Beware! and Dragons Beware! and it is AAAAAAMAZING! memex.craphound.com/2018/03/13/mon… 14/
#5yrsago Scenes from today’s national #GunControl student walkout nytimes.com/2018/03/14/us/…

#5yrsago #StephenHawking’s final words to the internet: robots aren’t the problem, capitalism is reddit.com/r/science/comm… 15/
#5yrsago Study finds that for-pay scholarly journals contribute virtually nothing to the papers they publish arxiv.org/pdf/1604.05363… 16/
#5yrsago Hereditary ultraestablishment Democrat @DanLipinski funded by railroad industry, whose safety regs he has held at bay theintercept.com/2018/03/14/dan… 17/
#5yrsago #Disneyland announces a date for removal of sex-slave trafficking scene from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride ocregister.com/2018/03/13/say…

#5yrsago Facebook once boasted of its ability to sway elections, now it has buried those pages theintercept.com/2018/03/14/fac… 18/
#5yrsago #EuropeanParliament ambushed by doctored version of pending internet censorship rules that sneaks filtering into all online services 19/
#5yrsago Caped one-percenters: how superheros make out like bandits under the Trump tax-plan lawandthemultiverse.com/wp-content/upl…

#5yrsago China’s mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist’s advocacy for “systems thinking” science.org/content/articl… 20/
#5yrsago @WellsFargo gives its CEO a $4.6m raise on flat earnings and more scandals mercurynews.com/2018/03/14/des…

#5yrsago Chris Slane’s privacy-oriented editorial cartoons are painfully funny slane.co.nz 21/
#1yrago Russian "#ESG" investments were always about financing invasions and murder pluralistic.net/2022/03/15/san…

#1yrago Fight inflation with a windfall profits tax pluralistic.net/2022/03/15/san… 22/
#1yrago Surprise billing's death-spiral may suck in untold patients pluralistic.net/2022/03/14/unh… 23/
Sunday's threads: Spirit warned investors that merging with Jetblue would be illegal; 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… 25/
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… 26/
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/ 27/
Upcoming appearances:

* @Ostrom_Workshop: Beyond the Web Speaker Series, 3/20
iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

* @IFTF Changing the Register, 3/22
iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 28/
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… 29/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro… 30/
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/2023/03/15/mon… 32/
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… 33/
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 34/
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). 35/

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Mar 5
You guys, I don't want to bum you out or anything, but I think there's a good chance than some self-described capitalists *aren't really into capitalism*.

Sorry.

1/ A giant, complicated, mechanical printing press. Looming over it is an 18th-century demon from the Compendium Rarissimum Totius Artis Magicae; it is a eating severed human leg, and waving another leg in the air. In the background rise dark red flames. The printer has a Brother logo.
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Take incentives: Charlie Munger, capitalism's quippiest pitchman, famously said, "Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome."

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Mar 3
I get a special pleasure from citing Milton Friedman. I like to imagine that as I do, he groans around the red-hot spit protruding from his jaws, prompting howls of laughter from the demons who pelt him with molten faeces for all eternity.

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If you're lucky enough not to know about Friedman, here's the short version. Friedman was a kind of court sorcerer to Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Augusto Pinochet, and other assorted authoritarian, hard-right leaders who set us on the path to the hellscape we inhabit today.

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Feb 20
The commercial surveillance industry is almost totally unregulated. Data brokers, ad-tech, and everyone in between - they harvest, store, analyze, sell and rent every intimate, sensitive, potentially compromising fact about your life.

1/ A towering figure with the head of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' surmounted by Trump's hair, wearing a tailcoat with a Google logo lapel pin. It peers through a magnifying glass at a distressed, tiny Uncle Sam figure perched in its monstrous palm. 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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Late last year, I testified at a Consumer Finance Protection Bureau hearing about a proposed new rule to kill off data brokers, who are the lynchpin of the industry:



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Feb 18
In 2013, Thomas Piketty had an unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) *Capital in the 21st Century*.

1/ A Gilded Age editorial cartoon of a frowning Uncle Sam giving a blood transfusion to a gargantuan business-man whose waistcoat is labeled 'protected monopolies.' The businessman's head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background has been replaced with a halftoned EU flag whose blue field is covered in circuit-board traceries. The floor beneath the figures is an abstract, pinkish pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed....
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It offers a very convincing explanation of our political decay, and it continues to serve this purpose as the decay undergoes alarming acceleration:



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Feb 17
Theory-free inference is a hell of a drug. For years, Big Data advocates - the larval form of today's AI weirdos - have insisted that if you have enough data, you can infer causal relationships between complex phenomena without ever having to understand how x causes y.

1/ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/caliper-ai/#racism-machine A phrenological illustration of a man's face in profile, with his skull divided up into sections with illustrations of what each area is meant to govern, e.g., appetite, artistic aptitude, aggression, ardor. A pair of gleaming silver calipers, wielded by the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' measures the figure's skull. 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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Feb 12
Remember the Tiktok ban? I know, it was ten million years ago (in Musk years, anyway), so it may have slipped your mind, but let me remind you: Congress passed a law saying Tiktok was banned. Trump said he wouldn't enforce the law. The end.

1/ An official portrait of the US Supreme Court, with the justices sitting and standing before a red velvet curtain. Their faces have been replaced with the green 'Mr Yuck' logo. Floating in the middle of the image, obscuring several judges, is the Tiktok logo, with Trump's hair.
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No, really. I mean, sure, there's a bunch of bullshit about whether Trump will pick up the ban again after Tiktok's grace period ends, depending on whether they sell themselves to his creepy wax museum pal Larry Ellison. Maybe he will.

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