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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Pining for the fjords

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@poppis Sometime! It's been a couple decades since my last Aula gig.

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@poppis ask a Finnish publisher!

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Subreddit

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The DRM-free ebooks for my pre-apocalyptic, hopeful climate emergency novel The Lost Cause is on sale in the USA!

Today, you can get the Kobo edition for $2.99:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-lost-cause-4

And all month, the Kindle edition is also $2.99:

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0CF5475GR

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Well that's a hell of a chart

https://www.ft.com/content/dc47c5f3-9bd4-4da0-a5cb-c795efd14c9c?accessToken=zwAGF77R-34okdPcR8Xzm9RNoNOly8eV79FMnA.MEUCIQDlzK8iKXqo2IyOBx3R95kEVglrA1-3Z4mV7SAgvpY71AIgFYrY0LX0A5YB_Wsm5EFBv08XfD1H5letjmzX-ZO_lw8&sharetype=gift&token=959a5d69-00b3-4117-b2cd-5231e1dccc9c

via @jjn1

https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-6-may-2024/39413/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler's playground; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/

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Next Tuesday (May 14), I'm on a livecast about AI and enshittification with @timoreilly:

https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the-future-of-ai/0642572001651/

Wednesday (May 15), I'm in North Hollywood with Harry Shearer for a screening of Stephanie Kelton's Finding the Money:

https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15

Friday (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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@PRNE Thanks!

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Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.

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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:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/#the-algorithm-tm

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Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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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:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/09/shitting-in-the-well/#advon

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The ruins at dusk

The ruins of a medieval church, integrated into the University of Tartu museum, at dusk, surrounded by trees.
The ruins of a medieval church, integrated into the University of Tartu museum, at dusk, surrounded by trees.

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That doorman tho

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Punisher blub blub

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Experimental subject

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Feetybones

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Important qualifier

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal "user agents"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI is a WMD; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/09/shitting-in-the-well/

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I'm in Tartu, Estonia!

TOMORROW (May 10): 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

TOMORROW (May 10): A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
University of Tartu Delta Centre (Narva 18, room 1037)

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    @clive You are Boeing to die. We're all Boeing to die.

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    @pluralistic May I make a request, can you please split your account into long form posts and one that just posts a link? It's either that, or I need to create another account just to follow you as your long form ones just overwhelm my feed

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    @mishari

    Here's how to manage it

    https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/

    You can also unfollow me here and get my articles by email, blog, RSS, or on a variety of other platforms.

    They're CC BY and there's fulltext RSS so you can write a program to ingest and republish them (including commercially) in a format of your choosing, as well.

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    @mishari You need to read the linked essay I sent you earlier, which explains this all. Here it is again:

    https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/

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    There's one overwhelmingly common mistake that people make about enshittification: assuming that the contagion is the result of the Great Forces of History, or that it is the inevitable end-point of any kind of for-profit online world.

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    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:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/#rewilding-the-internet

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