Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Steven Brust's "Tsalmoth"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/27/man…

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I'm at @HTLGIFestival in #HayOnWye:

28/5 1130h: The AI Enigma
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29/5 12h: Danger and Desire at the Frontier
howthelightgetsin.org/events/the-dan…

Next, #Oxford!

29/5: @blackwelloxford's 1930h w/@TimHarford:
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Steven Brust's "Tsalmoth": Swords, sorcery and swooning romance, in a series that is tantalyzingly close to completion.



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Hey look at this

* Cops can’t use copyright to block #UseOfForce materials eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

* Helpline fires staff uses #chatbot after #Unionization vice.com/en/article/n7e… (h/t /r/LateStageCapitalism)

* #HP finds new way to #DRM printers! theverge.com/2023/5/25/2373…

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#20yrsago #Apple force-feeds customers shit, calls it sunshine memex.craphound.com/2003/05/27/app…

#20yrsago Bungled espionage blows up millions of motherboards web.archive.org/web/2003021907…

#15yrsago #StarTrek cake trekmovie.com/2008/05/25/sta…

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#10yrsago TSA random secondary screening is trivial to dodge ip.topicbox.com/groups/ip/Ta67…

#10yrsago #Obama’s trade reps and the @MPAA are killing a copyright treaty that gives rights to #PeopleWithDisabilities huffpost.com/entry/poisonin…

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#5yrsago All Rights Reserved: a #YA #dystopia where every word is copyrighted memex.craphound.com/2018/05/27/all…

#1yrago #Wework founder raises $70m for #blockchain-based, "voluntary" #CarbonCredits pluralistic.net/2022/05/27/vol…

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Yesterday's threads: How (and why) Biden should overcome the Supreme Court to end the debt showdown; and more!



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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

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Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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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."

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @christreilly (#Nottingham), 5/30
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* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
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* @CymeraF, 6/3 (#Edinburgh)
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

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

* @rightscon, "#Interoperability: from buzzword to a map of solutions," Jun 6 (#CostaRica):
rightscon.org/program/

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* @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
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* How Big Tech Captured Culture (@TheAgenda)


* Enshittification Part 3: Saving The Internet (@onthemedia)
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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"

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They say "the Golden Age of #ScienceFiction is 12" - that is, the thing that makes "the good old stuff" so good is its suitability for preteens, and rereading that stuff as an adult (much less continuing to read it in adulthood) is a childish regression.

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It's not true.

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How (and why) Biden should overcome the Supreme Court to end the debt showdown; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/26/min…

#Pluralistic

1/ A kitchen sink. The Supreme...
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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How (and why) Biden should overcome the Supreme Court to end the debt showdown: Bonus: it'll also kill Trump's alarmingly good chances for a second term.



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Is it legal for Congress to #default on the US #NationalDebt? It depends on who you ask. There are a ton of good legal arguments for and against, so perhaps it comes down to what the (degraded, corrupt, illegitimate, partisan) #SupremeCourt says?

nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opi…

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In those terms, it seems like the game is over. #Biden should just surrender, hand the most extreme wing of the (degraded, corrupt, illegitimate, authoritarian) #GOP everything, even if doing so will push Biden's approval rating lower, dangerously close to the next election.

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Cybernetics, Art and Ideas, edited by Jasia Reichardt (New York Graphic Society, 1971).

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