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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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mathowie, to random
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I wish I could tell my ten year old self reading Omni Magazine and sci-fi short stories that in 2024 shit will actually get a little weird, like that time solar flares caused our robot tractors to not plant seeds at the right time, jeopardizing our food system https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/112428406876457168

qurlyjoe, to random
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baldur, to random
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One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

GottaLaff, to comics
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Just…. Go.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/05/12

emilymbender, (edited ) to random
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As folks discuss the plundering of the open internet/sharing economy by the data-hungry LLM trainers, it seems like a good time to remind ourselves to find something other than "the tragedy of the commons" as a metaphor. On the racist, terrible origins of that phrase:

https://discardstudies.com/2019/07/15/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

szakib, to climate
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Perspective: the biggest carbon capture plant in the world sequesters 1 millionth of our annual emissions. We would have to build a million of these plants to not_increase the CO2 level. And we need to decrease the CO2 level.

Carbon capture is a scam.

#ClimateCrisis
https://www.fastcompany.com/91120071/climeworks-carbon-removal-factory-iceland

randahl, to random
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UN human rights experts horrified: Seven mass graves found in northern Gaza with 520 Palestinian bodies. Some beheaded, some showing signs of torture.

The Israeli government can scream "anti-semitism" as much as they want — The International Criminal Court is coming for Benjamin Netanyahu, and the world will never forget what his government did.

Never again.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4652018-reports-mount-of-mass-graves-at-gaza-hospitals-some-without-heads/amp/

shauna, to random
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Hi friends! Do you know any labor organizers, lawyers, etc in Pittsburgh or nearby? I am looking for help staffing a worker organizing themed booth at PyCon next week. Taking place at the Lawrence Convention Center.

Looking for help with any/all of the following times:

  • 5-7pm Thurs May 16 (opening reception)
  • 7am-7pm Fri May 17 (expo hall)
  • 7am-7pm Sat May 18 (expo hall)
  • 10am-1pm Sun May 19 (job fair)

If you'd like to help but can't in person please DM, there's lots of other ways to help

KathyReid, to random
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In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

https://www.booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-focus-on/same-sex-parents/

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

overholt, to random
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A prize-winning collection of Penguin paperbacks makes it possible to trace the evolution of its logo over time. https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2024/05/10/winner-of-the-2024-james-david-forbes-collecting-prize-march-of-the-grenguins/

pluralistic, to random
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Pining for the fjords

nasamuffin,
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@pluralistic award-winning

Sherifazuhur, to egypt
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says it will join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ.
@israel @palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/12/egypt-says-it-will-join-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-at-icj

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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EDITED: One of journalism's consistent flaws is ignoring relevant context.

Case in point is this NY Times story about a judge tossing out a new federal regulation limiting extortionate credit card late fees.

Here's the context the Times didn't care to include: The financial companies went forum shopping, and landed one of their favorite Trump-appointed judges, who (to his credit) objected to the process, but then predictably ruled against the administration.

Journalistic malpractice, IMO.

tinsuke, to random
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Report: I'm in this post and I don't like it.

"... like parenting, founding a company requires continuous, low-grade self-deception about the amount of work involved and the chances of success."
@pluralistic

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

rbreich, to random
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Wondering if wealth inequality is out of control?

Well, Jeff Bezos made over $7.9 million an hour last year.

In just 13 minutes, he made the equivalent of what a typical person earns in a lifetime.

Don't tell me that the rich can't afford a wealth tax.

peterdutoit, (edited ) to brazil
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"I don't say this lightly - but the floods in , , are looking comparable to what Katrina did to New Orleans in 2005 -- massive evacuations, water & power outages, key infrastructure damaged, parts of city, possible long-term consequences."—Brian Winter

Background heating +1.3ºC

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iangriffin, to NewZealand
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There are moments when you have to say, Mother nature is awesome. One such moment occurred at Lake Aviemore last night at 02:25:45. This is three five second exposures combined to make a panorama. WOW!

JamesGleick, to random
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The Biden administration closed a loophole and capped “junk fees,” to protect consumers from gouging by banks and credit-card companies.

Now a federal judge reverses the the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in behalf of the banking industry.

The NY Times doesn’t say who appointed the judge. Can you guess?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/credit-card-fee-limit-blocked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE0.SIt5.1jlKXK5FVswD&smid=url-share

rbreich, to random
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Stock buybacks don't just line the pockets of CEOs and shareholders — they're dangerous.

Boeing failed to implement a $7B redesign of its 737 Max while spending that much per year on buybacks.

A dollar spent on buybacks is a dollar less spent to upgrade equipment and safety.

gutenberg_org, (edited ) to books
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American physicist Richard Feynman was born #OTD in 1918.

He developed the Feynman diagrams, a pictorial representation of the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which provided a powerful tool for calculating complex interactions among particles. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga for their fundamental contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics (QED).

#books #physics
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JamesGleick, to random
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A portrait of an IRS that has been made helpless to collect taxes owed by the very rich, no matter how blatantly and shamelessly they cheat. Super reporting here by the NY Times and @ProPublica.

(Case study starring a grifter who has never earned an honest dollar in his life.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/trump-taxes-audit-chicago.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE0.Qvx1.36AkJGklXwtz&smid=url-share

pluralistic, to random
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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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paninid,
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@pluralistic
“Our electrically configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition.”

  • Marshall McLuhan, 1967
pezmico, to tesla
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"The fake part of Tesla has become more real than the real part of Tesla."

Interesting discussion about the hype behind the stock and the lack of substance in , like anything Musk, has become about image and hype much more than actual innovation or product.

It's all smoke and mirrors with the billionaire class.

Tesla is Choosing Hype over Substance w/ Ed Niedermeyer on Tech Won't Save Us by @parismarx

https://pca.st/episode/a07c34a6-4cd9-4224-8b9a-63b104a67a54

ethanjstark, to random
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The latest Plura-List newsletter from @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/11/for-you/

dives into the economic concept of the Ulysses pact: “when you take some possibility off the table during a moment of strength in recognition of some coming moment of weakness.”

In the excellent book Dopamine Nation, psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke dives into the Ulysses pact on the individual behavioral level, calling it “self-binding”.

Curious to hear your self-binding strategies? I’ll share mine (in reply)

movonw,
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@ethanjstark @pluralistic I put all kinds of blocks and limits on social media, I don’t have cigarettes at home, I won over nail biting by filing my nails perfectly smooth, to hack the moment where I unconsciously look for a sharp edge. I think of all these as kind of life hacks!

eff, to random
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"If you bought a game, if you made a game, if you love a game, technology shouldn't get in the way of that game's ongoing existence,” EFF’s @pluralistic told @IGN — tech should preserve games for those who love them and for posterity.
https://www.ign.com/articles/how-stop-killing-games-ups-the-ante-in-the-fight-for-video-game-preservation

VulcanTourist,
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@eff @pluralistic @IGN

This is not easy to do when the owner of a game's "intellectual property" is willing to defiantly sit on it as a game slips into obscurity and then abandonware. It's the intangible version of the real estate phenomenon of huge parcels of land that sit barren in (sub)urban areas, sometimes for decades, while its speculative owner waits for that Deal of a Lifetime.

Copyright straddles and strangles that preservation goal like a Berlin Wall.

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