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May 25, 2023 • 35 tweets • 47 min read • Read on X
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Inside: To save the news, shatter ad-tech; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/25/str…

#Pluralistic

1/ EFF's banner for the save n...
I'm at @HTLGIFestival in #HayOnWye:

28/5 1130h: The AI Enigma
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…

29/5 12h: Danger and Desire at the Frontier
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

Next, #Oxford!

29/5: @blackwelloxford's 1930h w/@TimHarford:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/cory-doctoro…

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To save the news, shatter ad-tech: Structural separation will help the news claim their fair share.



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Hey look at this

* There's No Antitrust Exception to Statutory Interpretation promarket.org/2023/05/19/the…

* @Bandcamp workers have voted to unionize bandcampunited.org/updates

* Glorious new @foliosociety edition of Hitchhiker's Guide gizmodo.com/hitchhikers-gu…

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#20yrsago Turn a floppy into a Klingon ship memex.craphound.com/2003/05/25/tur…

#20yrsago “Facts” about printing and book-design nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ar…

#20yrsago Dear Hollywood: neener neener web.archive.org/web/2003052417…

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#20yrsago @EFF on #TotalInformationAwareness web.archive.org/web/2003052823…

#15yrsago Villagers from three continents will confront @Chevron execs at annual meeting web.archive.org/web/2008052012…

#15yrsago Former @RIAA CEO is the @HuffPost’s new political director wired.com/2008/05/the-hu…

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#15yrsago Canadian spooks think punk band “#SuicidePilots” are terrorists web.archive.org/web/2008053002…

#15yrsago #Punk House: communal homes of the anarcho-syndicalist lifestyle web.archive.org/web/2008052617…

#10yrsago Laptop w/thermite self-destruct mechanism hackaday.com/2013/05/23/lap…

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#10yrsago 3D-printable model of the cover of #JoyDivision’s “#UnknownPleasures” web.archive.org/web/2013060716…

#10yrsago Game designer creates a never-played-by-humans titanium boardgame and buries it for play in 2700 years polygon.com/2013/3/28/4157…

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#10yrsago Hardwood #Escher tesselated interlocking lizard tiles evolulignum.blogspot.com/2011/02/diseno…

#10yrsago How London cops use social media to spy on protest movements itnews.com.au/news/police-ta…

#10yrsago Vermont passes anti-#PatentTroll law cbc.ca/news/business/…

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#10yrsago #RIAA losing money, firing employees, giving execs raises torrentfreak.com/riaa-makes-dra…

#10yrsago Forging £1 coins is apparently profitable bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

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#10yrsago Globe and Mail: Toronto Mayor #RobFord’s family are, variously, a drug kingpin, a gangster, and affiliated with the KKK theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/g…

#10yrsago Lamps made from cassette tapes cassetteisnotdead.com

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#5yrsago A guide to the valuable electronics inside #Bird’s illegal-in-San Francisco scooters jwz.org/blog/2018/05/l…

#5yrsago #Facebook is worth much less to its users than search and email, but it keeps a larger share of the value timharford.com/2018/05/how-mu…

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#5yrsago The paleocomputing miracle of the 76477 #SpaceInvaders sound effects chip righto.com/2018/05/inside…

#5yrsago Texas high-school principal fires award-winning, nationally famous journalism teacher to rein in critical student newspaper reporting splc.org/2018/05/0522pr…

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#5yrsago 500,000 home routers have been infected with #VPNFilter, malware that steals data and bricks devices arstechnica.com/information-te…

#5yrsago The #FBI’s mountain of uncrackable #crimephones was nearly entirely imaginary emptywheel.net/2018/05/23/did…

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#5yrsago A free internet is a configurable internet oreilly.com/content/cory-d…

#5yrsago The Democratic candidate for the Georgia governorship is a Black woman running on an “unapologetic progressive” platform web.archive.org/web/2018052306…

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#5yrsago A hard look at the wastefulness of “#ProofOfWork,” the idea at the core of the blockchain davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/201…

#5yrsago @cstross on the “soft genocide” of eugenics-tainted, alt-right climate dystopia antipope.org/charlie/blog-s…

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#5yrsago @ComputerHistory Museum just published the sourcecode for #Eudora computerhistory.org/blog/the-eudor…

#5yrsago The company that made #GrenfellTower’s flammable, poisonous insulation used dangerous lies to make hundreds of sales independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

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#5yrsago Court rules that Trump can’t block people on Twitter eff.org/press/releases…

#5yrsago @comcast’s $1.2b/year #ModemRental scam picks your pocket, then exposes you to hackers, stalkers and identity thieves vice.com/en/article/mbk…

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#5yrsago Cable industry attains the impossible: makes Americans hate it even more vice.com/en/article/7xm…

#5yrsago Mining the #PanamaPapers and other leaks to reveal the hidden looting of West Africa by its corrupt elite icij.org/investigations…

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#5yrsago Why “#leftism” is parting ways with “liberalism” and what it means for the future of American politics nymag.com/intelligencer/…

#5yrsago Debugging #AI is a “hard problem” ai.stanford.edu/~zayd/why-is-m…

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#5yrsago FBI sinkholes a key domain used by the malware that infected 500,000 home routers, declares partial victory and Russian attribution thedailybeast.com/exclusive-fbi-…

#5yrsago Thoughtful, devastating critique of #JordanPeterson’s “12 Rules for Life” web.archive.org/web/2021031013…

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#1yrago @HSBC: "Who cares if Miami is underwater?" pluralistic.net/2022/05/24/mor…

#1yrago #SPACs were hugely successful (for banks) pluralistic.net/2022/05/23/you…

#1yrago #KimStanleyRobinson's "The High Sierra" pluralistic.net/2022/05/25/the…

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#1yrago Talking with Kim Stanley Robinson about "The High Sierra" pluralistic.net/2022/05/25/the…

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Monday's threads: Justice Warriors; and more!



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My latest nonfiction 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…

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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/

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Upcoming appearances:

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/28
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-ai-…

* @HTLGIFestival (#Hay), 5/29
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

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

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @christreilly (#Nottingham), 5/30
waterstones.com/events/an-even…

* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-kirste…

* @CymeraF, 6/3 (#Edinburgh)
cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera23-event…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues with @Marthalanefox at the @bl, 6/5 (#London):
bl.uk/events/an-even…

* @republica keynote, 6/7 (#Berlin)
re-publica.com/de/news/rp23-k…

* Otherland event for Red Team Blues, 6/8 (#Berlin)
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-detai…

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Recent appearances:

* @machinekillspod
soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

* How Big Tech Captured Culture (@TheAgenda)


* Enshittification Part 3: Saving The Internet (@onthemedia)
wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/s…

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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/2023/05/25/str…

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If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - and previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

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My latest @Medium column is "Rich People's Gain is Worth Less Than Poor People's Pain: A new way to think about utilitarianism, courtesy of the Office of Management and Budget"

doctorow.medium.com/rich-peoples-g…

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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: mail.flarn.com/mailman/listin…

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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).

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Inside: AI and the fatfinger economy; and more!

Archived at:

#Pluralistic

1/ pluralistic.net/2025/05/02/kpi…A leg-hold trap whose trigger disc has been replaced with the hostile, glaring eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' A giant man's finger enters the frame from one corner, aimed at the trigger. Image: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Index_finger_%3D_to_attention.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en -- Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in NEW ZEALAND at UNITY BOOKS in WELLINGTON TODAY (May 3, 3PM):

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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.



3/ Image: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Index_finger_%3D_to_attention.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en -- 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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Apr 24
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.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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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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Apr 22
Astrophysicist Adam Becker knows a bit about science and tech - enough to show, in his book *More Everything Forever* that claims tech bros make about space colonies, mind uploading, and other skiffy subjects are nonsense dressed up as prediction:



1/ hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-be…The Basic Books cover for Adam Becker's 'More Everything Faster.'
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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Becker investigates the personalities, the ideologies, the coalitions, the histories, and crucially, the *grifts* behind various science fictional pursuits.

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Apr 21
Have you heard that tariffs are going to drive prices up? Me too. There's a good reason we're hearing a lot of talk about tariffs prices: tariffs are a tax that is ultimately paid by consumers.

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Trump plans to raise $6t in tariffs, making them the largest tax increase in US history:



But that $6t is just for starters.

3/ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/03/as-…
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Apr 18
It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company *intended* to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors.

1/ A naked, sexless pull-string talking doll with a speaker grille set into its chest. It has the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar, and a pull string extending from its back. A hand - again, from a Zuckerberg metaverse avatar - is pulling back the string. The doll towers over a courtroom.
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It's a lot easier to prove *what* a corporation did than it is to prove *why* they did it. What am I, a mind-reader? But imagine for a second that the corporation in the dock is a global multinational.

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Apr 15
A lawsuit filed in February accuses Tesla of remotely altering odometer values on failure-prone cars, in a bid to push these lemons beyond the 50,000 mile warranty limit:



1/ thestreet.com/automotive/tes…A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene. Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified)...
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The suit was filed by a California driver who bought a used Tesla with 36,772 miles on it. The car's suspension kept failing, necessitating multiple servicings.

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