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Jun 16, 2023 • 17 tweets • 16 min read • Read on X
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Conservatives are fringe outliers - and leftists could learn from them; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/tha…

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Conservatives are fringe outliers - and leftists could learn from them: Unhinged QGOP freaks may be completely unhinged, but they know how to use power.


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Hey look at this

* Saving the News from #BigTech eff.org/files/2023/06/…

* Climate-Friendly Cocktail Recipes Go Light on Ice scientificamerican.com/article/climat… (h/t @yvessmith)

* Noir thriller #RedTeamBlues captures the anxious tension of our time theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/rev…

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#15yrsago Swedes take to the street to fight #DomesticSpying politics.slashdot.org/story/08/06/17…

#15yrsago How Canada’s DMCA will criminalize everyday Canadians web.archive.org/web/2008061819…

#10yrsago Men in Toronto Mayor #RobFord crack photo arrested in gang sweep thestar.com/news/gta/2013/…

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#10yrsago #NSA admits it listens in on US phone calls and reads US emails without a warrant cnet.com/tech/tech-indu…

#10yrsago Turkish EU minister: protesters will be treated as terrorists hurriyetdailynews.com/police-to-cons…

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#5yrsago Adventure House: the sequel to the #HauntedMansion that never was passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2018/06/marc-d…

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Yesterday's threads: Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation; and more!



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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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Recent appearances:

* Red Team Blues: Conversation w/@seancranbury (@MassyBooks)


* How To Save News Media From Our Tech Overlords (@CANADALAND)
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* AI is not artificial or intelligent (w/@jamesbridle)


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My latest Medium column is "The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve Has a Business Model"

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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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Postmortems and blame for the 2024 elections are thick on the ground, but amidst all those theories and pointed fingers, one explanation looms large and credible: the American housing emergency. If the system can't put a roof over your head, that system needs to go.

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American housing has been in crisis for decades, of course, but it keeps getting worse...and worse...and *worse*. Americans pay more for worse housing than at any time in their history.

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Dec 6
After 9/11, we were told that "no cost was too high" when it came to fighting terrorism, and indeed, the US did blow *trillions* on forever wars and regime change projects and black sites and kidnappings and dronings and gulags that were supposed to end terrorism.

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Back in the imperial core, we all got to play the home edition of the "no price is too high" War on Terror game. New, extremely invasive airport security measures were instituted.

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Dec 5
The Canadian national identity involves a lot of sneering at the US, but when it comes to oligarchy, Canada makes America look positively amateurish.

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Canada's monopolists may be big fish in a small pond, but holy *moly* are they big, compared to the size of that pond.

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Dec 4
The Biden administration disappointed, frustrated and enraged in so many ways, including abetting a genocide - but one consistent bright spot over the past four years was the unseen-for-generations frontal assault on corporate power and corporate corruption.

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The three words that define this battle above all others are "unfair and deceptive" - words that appear in Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act and other legislation modeled on it, like USC40 Section 41712(a).

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Nov 25
The core of the prepper fantasy: "What if the world ended in the *precise* way that made *me* the most important person?"

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The ultra-rich fantasize about emerging from luxury bunkers with an army of mercs and thumbdrives full of bitcoin to a world in ruins that they restructure using their "leadership skills."

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Nov 23
> A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
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> THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

Supposedly, these lines were included in a 1979 internal presentation at IBM; screenshots of them routinely go viral:



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The reason for their newfound popularity is obvious: the rise and rise of algorithmic management tools, in which your boss is an app.

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