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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Archived at pluralistic.net

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gamingonlinux, to random
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Google AI is a hot sticky mess. Now they're telling people to add glue to pizza, as it took a shitpost from Reddit.

Credit: https://www.threads.net/@petergyang/post/C7S6fzINqZj

pluralistic, to random
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Hey, @mozilla I'm really proud to be a paid Media Monitor subscriber, and I'm happy with the service, too.

But why do your emails pass their links through a tracking redirection service controlled by a third party?

My May statement links through https://blrv1ly5.r.us-west-2.awstrack.me/

?!

dphiffer,
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@pluralistic @mozilla I’m not from Mozilla and can’t speak to their product choices, but at @themarkup we’ve had to work hard to find a service (Email Octopus) that lets us turn off tracking. See also: https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/hello-from-the-markup

The service providers have an incentive to protect their deliverability reputation from bad actors who might turn off tracking to avoid detection. So the tracking is about monitoring the email sender. I would say smaller service providers are better positioned on this one.

pluralistic, to random
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A decade ago, a hedge fund had an improbable viral comedy hit: a 294-page slide deck explaining why Olive Garden was going out of business, blaming the failure on too many breadsticks and insufficiently salted pasta-water:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000092189514002031/ex991dfan14a06297125_091114.pdf

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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/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

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durrandon,
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@pluralistic

"These places are easy pickings for looters because the people who patronize them have little power in our society – and because those of us with more power are easily tricked into sneering at these places' failures as a kind of comeuppance that's all that's due to tacky joints that serve the working class."

Kind of feeling seen here.

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/

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WillA763,

@pluralistic The last two CEOs of that company belong in prison.

bloodravenlib, to restaurants
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>Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

A good overview by @pluralistic on Red Lobster's 💋 💀 once private equity vultures swooped in.

On a side note, another example of "bust out" can also be seen in the film "Goodfellas."

ernie, to random
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It’s alive. https://udm14.com

Jeffool,
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@ernie Also, (obviously) seems worth tagging @pluralistic in!

jasonkoebler, to random
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Cory Doctorow on Red Lobster is an instant click from me https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/ @pluralistic

celeduc, to random
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US politicians, the courts, the media, and even unions are lining up to knuckle under to another stolen election like 2000. But preparing for a general strike is a way to counteract this seeming near-certainty, to prepare for the worst, and most importantly to change the narrative of helplessness. https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-will-you-do-if-the-election (via @pluralistic)

Miriamm, to random
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This morning Ireland officially recognised Palestine as an independent state. Our history of struggle and oppression has taught us the value of freedom and justice, and we always stand unwaveringly with the oppressed. I’m very proud to be Irish today
🇮🇪🇵🇸✊🏾 https://news.sky.com/story/ireland-and-norway-recognise-palestine-as-independent-state-13141083

nancycomics, to random
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 22,1967

jeffcliff, to random
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I should dig up my post on phantom memory, which is, ironically, not online anywhere.

@pluralistic
> @raaleh often reminds us, the left is the ideology of object permanence - to be a leftist is to hate and mistrust the CIA even when they're tormenting Trump for a brief instant.
> Or to remember that it was once possible for a working person to support their family with their wages:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong
> The thing is, object permanence is hard. Life comes at you quickly. It's very hard to remember facts, and the order in which those facts arrived - it's even harder to remember how you felt about those facts in the moment.
...
> @internetarchive which ]
https://x.com/doctorow/status/1792962823406100684

sashin, to random Japanese
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This @pluralistic piece on Finfluencers and the housing crisis is great https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/22/koteswar-jay-gajavelli/

The phrase "the grifter class" is hilarious

mathewi, to random
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Leonhard Euler was an intellectual giant of the 1700s https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2024/05/22/leonhard-euler-was-an-intellectual-giant-of-the-1700s/

aral, to Israel
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“We cannot apply international law only when it’s convenient.”

– Senator Bernie Sanders, US Senate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pEDoCaYSwVw

#ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #Netanyahu #arrestWarrant #TheHague #Israel #Palestine #gaza #warCrimes

jsrailton, (edited ) to environment
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Reading this🧵? Your blood probably contains some amount of toxic made by

Enough to spike your risk of cancers & illnesses?

Without a blood test, you have no idea.

Why is their toxin running in your veins?

Well, 3M & kept the harms secret even as their toxins were incorporated into...everything.

From french fry bags to chairs.

They gaslit their own scientists.

& regularly dumped, creating toxic zones. 1/

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

pluralistic, to random
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Oh, fuck you, British Airways.

tob,
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@pluralistic Gen-AI created captcha is some deeply recursive torment nexus sh*t.

"We had a bot create the test for humans to prove they're not a bot."

LeoRJorge,
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@pluralistic I was furious when I found out the (otherwise pretty great) eID-like system of the Brazilian government is using exactly the same captcha system

adapalmer,
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@pluralistic I’ve found it weird and worrying that they’re trying to weed out bots by testing for the ability to parse AI art, when surely parsing AI art is something we’re optimizing machines to do.

nikatjef,
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@pluralistic
GPT-4o took less than 20 seconds to find the penguin... Guess it must be human.

HighlandLawyer,
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@tob @pluralistic

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Linkrot; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/21/noway-back-machine/

#Pluralistic

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A 1994 Yahoo homepage. It is animated. The blue links blur and then disappear.

jamesd,
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@pluralistic Also currently on sale at Kobo (which I just took advantage of :)

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

ai6yr, to random

👀 https://lapublicpress.org/2024/05/lasd-deputy-arrested-for-allegedly-smuggling-drugs-into-county-jail/

Viss,
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@ai6yr straight out of the @pluralistic book :D

futurenatures, to random
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@pluralistic We made a zine about strange experiences of nature. https://futurenatures.org/zine-strange-natures/

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How to screw up a whistleblower law; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/

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atomless,
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This is great from @pluralistic on whistleblower law - https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/15/whistleblown/

It reminded me of this other excellent piece that explains that sadly we always seem, psychologically at least, to shoot the messenger : https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/

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