Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
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Supervised AI isn't: Automation blindness can't be automated away.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110939357410574998
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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):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/
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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."
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Upcoming appearances:
* #BurningMan Center Camp, 1430h, Aug 29
https://playaevents.burningman.org/2023/playa_events/03/
* "The Internet Con" launch, Another Story Bookshop (#Toronto), Sept 12
https://anotherstory.ca/events/29283
* @eff Awards (#SanFrancisco), Sept 14
https://www.eff.org/awards/effawards/2023
* Launch for "#TheInternetCon" and @brianmerchant's "#BloodInTheMachine," Chevalier's Books (#LA), Sept 27
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-internet-con-by-cory-doctorow-blood-in-the-machine-by-brian-merchant-tickets-696349940417
* An Evening with #VESchwab (#Boise), Oct 2
https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/ve-schwab
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing keynote (#Minneapolis), Oct 16
https://cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/keynotes/
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Recent appearances:
* Gaslit Nation (pt 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTlhNoV3Qg
* Hurriquake! (@TWiT)
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/941
* New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-internet-con
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