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Inside: Supervised AI isn't; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/automation-blindness/

A CCTV observation room, in which a blurry male figure watches a large bank of monitors. Each monitor is displaying a laughing clown, whose nose has been replaced with the menacing red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

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Going to #BurningMan? Catch me Tues/1440h on Center Camp Stage for a talk about #enshittification; Weds 12h,hosting #PatrickBall at #LiminalLabs (6:15/F) for a talk on using statistics to prove high-level culpability in the recruitment of child soldiers.

Sep 6/19h, I'm hosting #NaomiKlein at #LAPublicLibrary for *Doppelganger*:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger

Sep 9/19h, I'm at #Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with *The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation*:

https://anotherstory.ca/events/29283
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Supervised AI isn't: Automation blindness can't be automated away.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110939357410574998

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Hey look at this

* Why #BillWatterson Vanished https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-bill-watterson-vanished/ (h/t Slashdot)

* South Pole Electrical Infrastructure https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-electrical-infrastructure

*A Girl and Her Bird: Emergence by David R. Palmer https://www.tor.com/2023/08/22/a-girl-and-her-bird-emergence-by-david-r-palmer/ (I LOVE THIS BOOK)

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#15yrsago #Klingon knife scares the crap out of credulous British scandal-sheet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-387680/Lethal-Star-Trek-blade-seized-knives-amnesty.html

#15yrsago #Fafblog’s #MediumLobster becomes a political columnist for the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/aug/21/uselections2008.barackobama

#10yrsago Larry Lessig and EFF sue music licensing company over bogus YouTube copyright claims https://www.eff.org/press/releases/lawrence-lessig-strikes-back-against-bogus-copyright-takedown

#10yrsago Of Dice and Men: The Story of #DungeonsandDragons and The People Who Play It https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/23/of-dice-and-men-the-story-of-dungeons-dragons-and-the-people-who-play-it/

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#5yrsago From #Tahrir to Trump: how the internet became the dictators’ home turf https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/14/240325/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/

#5yrsago Apple removes Facebook’s deceptive, surveillant VPN from the App Store https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/22/apple-removes-facebook-onavo-app-from-app-store.html

#5yrsago LA County will switch to all #OpenSource vote-counting machines https://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-htmlstory.html

#5yrsago Santa Clara fire department: Verizon’s pants are on fire https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/fire-dept-rejects-verizons-customer-support-mistake-excuse-for-throttling/

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#5yrsago Data-driven analysis of the total, gratuitous inadequacy of women’s pockets https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/

#5yrsago Facebook will subject all of its users to “#TrustworthinessScores" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/21/facebook-is-rating-trustworthiness-its-users-scale-zero-one/

#5yrsago The company you hired to snoop on your kids’ phones uploaded all their data to an unprotected website https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kmj4v/spyware-company-spyfone-terabytes-data-exposed-online-leak

#1yrago #Tory Britain is crashing and burning https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/23/late-stage-thatcherism/#just-dont-be-poor

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Yesterday's threads: Podcasting "Enshitternet"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110934241519189508

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

Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2873/Wed%2C_Apr_26th_6pm%3A_Red_Team_Blues%3A_A_Martin_Hench_Novel_HB.html#/

and Forbidden Planet (UK):

https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/

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

https://chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068

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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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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