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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Profile picture
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Mar 21, 2023 • 26 tweets • 25 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing; Hey look at this; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/21/tec…

#Pluralistic 1/ A group of firefighters holding a safety net under a buildin
Tomorrow (Mar 22), I'm doing a remote talk for the @IFTF's "Changing the Register" series:

iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist… 2/
Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing: Finally, the non-tech sector can hire technical workers.

3/ Image: University of North Texas Libraries (modified) https
Hey look at this

* The venture capitalist's dilemma newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-…

* The Incredible Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw Over #SiliconValleyBank slate.com/technology/202…

* The hierarchy of excuses crookedtimber.org/2023/03/20/the… 4/
#20yrsago #TalkRadio is the province of lying demagogues, bigots and fools web.archive.org/web/2003040213…

#10yrsago @BruceS’s closing SXSW keynote: disruption and destruction soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/b… 5/
#10yrsago How the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct punishes people with disabilities slate.com/technology/201…

#10yrsago Supercut of all the alternate endings to the #Animaniacs theme 6/
#10yrsago @EFF blasts plans to build #DRM into #HTML5 eff.org/deeplinks/2013…

#10yrsago You know who does creepier stuff with your data than #CambridgeAnalytica? Your ISP techdirt.com/2018/03/21/if-… 7/
#5yrsago Police say the #AustinBomber killed himself as they closed in on him web.archive.org/web/2018032108…

#5yrsago To save the Earth, stack humans in green cities and leave the wilderness for other animals theguardian.com/cities/2018/ma… 8/
#5yrsago Teen’s devastating bug-report on a “tamper-proof” cryptocurrency wallet shows why companies can’t be left in charge of bad news about their products saleemrashid.com/2018/03/20/bre… 9/
#5yrsago In Chicago primaries, a string of defeats for the Democratic establishment at the hands of progressive Democrats theintercept.com/2018/03/20/fri…

#1yrago #Brazil's "#RemunerationRight" will strengthen Big Tech and Big Media pluralistic.net/2022/03/21/jef… 10/
#1yrago To make Big Tech better, make it smaller pluralistic.net/2022/03/21/jef… 11/
Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk"; 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… 13/
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… 14/
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon and others) 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/ 15/
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/ 16/
Upcoming appearances:

* @IFTF Changing the Register, 3/22
iftf.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

* Antitrust and Competition Conference - Beyond the Consumer Welfare Standard (#Chicago), 4/20-21
chicagobooth.edu/research/stigl… 17/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues at @MystGalaxyBooks (#SanDiego), 4/25
mystgalaxy.com/event/42523Doc…

* Red Team Blues at @WordfestTweets (#Calgary), 5/11
wordfest.com/2023/event/wor… 18/
Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @TimHarford (#Oxford), 5/29
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste… 19/
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/2023/03/21/tec… 21/
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. 22/
My latest @Medium column is "Culture War Bullshit Stole Your Broadband: Your internet sucks because telco monopolists kept Gigi Sohn off the FCC"

doctorow.medium.com/culture-war-bu… 23/
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 24/
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). 25/
Today's top sources: @Slashdot (slashdot.org). 26/

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May 17
As a science fiction writer, I find it weird that some sf tropes - like space colonization - have become culture-war touchstones. You know, that whole "we were promised jetpacks" thing.

1/ A cartoon image of a jetpack-flying man waves hello at a gap-toothed, awed young boy. Beneath them in the corner, a sinister figure with huge, hypnotic-spiral eyes works the switches on an imposing control panel. On his desk is a copy of Amazing Stories with the same rocketeer. In the image background is a faded, halftoned image of the NYC 1964 World's Fair.
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I confess, I never looked too hard at the practicalities of jetpacks, because they are so obviously either used as a visual shorthand (as in the Jetsons) or as a metaphor.

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May 16
Residents of 21 Utah cities have some of the fastest, cheapest broadband in the country, at speeds up to 10gb/s and prices as low as $75/mo. It's uncapped, and the connections are symmetrical: perfect for uploading *and* downloading. And it's all thanks to the government.

1/ The cover of the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas More's 'Utopia.' It has been altered to add a glowing halo of fiber optics around the central tower. The Penguin logo has been replaced with the beehive from the Utah state flag. Image: 4028mdk09 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rote_LED_Fiberglasleuchte.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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Of course this is delivered via fiber optic. Fiber is vastly superior to all other forms of broadband, including satellites, but also cable and DSL. Fiber caps out at 100tb/s, while cable caps out at 50gb/s - fiber is *1,000* times faster:



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May 13
When it comes to AI art (or "art"), it's hard to find a nuanced position that respects creative workers' labor rights, free expression, copyright law's vital exceptions and limitations, and aesthetics.

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I am, on balance, opposed to AI art, but there are some important caveats to that position. For starters, I think it's unequivocally wrong - as a matter of law - to say that scraping works and training a model with them infringes copyright.

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May 11
Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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May 9
Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people.

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The "Tragedy" hoax said that moving land from collective ownership "rescued" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who cared for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":



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Amazon is very good at everything it does, including being very bad at the things it doesn't want to do. Take signing up for Prime: nothing could be simpler. The company has built a greased slide from Prime-curiosity to Prime-confirmed that is the envy of every UX designer.

1/ A hand depositing a ballot in a perspex ballot box on a black background. The box is full of yellow-green piss and the ballot features an angry robot made from Amazon boxes and the phrase 'I am not a robot.' The box has an Amazon logo across its top. Image: Isabela.Zanella (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballot-box-2.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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But *unsubscribing* from Prime? That's a fucking *nightmare*. Somehow the company that can easily figure out how to sign up for a service is totally baffled when it comes to making it just as easy to leave.

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