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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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pluralistic, to Halifax
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That is some straight up devilry right there.

pluralistic, to random
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"Leave a loose end dangling."

My "Think Like An Artist" card (CBC Arts' answer to Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies deck).

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/feeling-stuck-we-asked-67-canadian-artists-for-their-best-creative-advice-1.7191836

pluralistic,
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@Patrickoldhiker Explained here: https://locusmag.com/2014/01/cory-doctorow-cheap-writing-tricks/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: CDA 230 bans Facebook from blocking interoperable tools; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/02/kaiju-v-kaiju/

#Pluralistic

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT (May 2) in WINNIPEG then TOMORROW (May 3) in CALGARY and SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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pluralistic,
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I'm coming to Tartu, Estonia!

May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene,"
University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)

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)

May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
(University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

pluralistic,
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@inkican Lucky for you, it's licensed CC BY so you're free to choose an alternative illustration and republish the article with it, provided you maintain attribution and a link to the license.

pluralistic,
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@inkican No sweat.

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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is the most widely misunderstood technology law in the world, which is wild, given that it's only 26 words long!

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

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https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/02/kaiju-v-kaiju/#cda-230-c-2-b

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Won't be making the @pluralistic talk in tonight, cause broke af, but that does not mean you shouldn't.

If I had the world's ear for a minute, I'd hand him the mic.

pluralistic,
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@jpaskaruk The organisers tell me that there are free/cheap concession tickets for low-waged/unemployed comrades. Try contacting the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives?

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I hadn't realised that @pluralistic had sold the TV rights for Little Brother to BBC News, but I just caught a bit of it over lunch.

pluralistic,
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@cpswan Snort.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW (May 2) in WINNIPEG then FRIDAY (May 3) in CALGARY and SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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pluralistic,
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@captainchaos Thanks, fixed at the permalink.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/30/nix-fix-the-tix/

#Pluralistic

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me THURSDAY (May 2) in Winnipeg (May 2) then FRIDAY (May 3) in CALGARY (May 3) and SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Monopolies are intrinsically destabilizing and inevitably implode...eventually. Guessing which of the loathesome monopolies that make us all miserable will be the first domino is a hard call, but Ticketmaster is definitely high on my list.

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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/2024/04/30/nix-fix-the-tix/#something-must-be-done-there-we-did-something

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ClimateJenny, to random
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Ugh, the kicker on The Bezzle. :psyduck: We were warned.

Good book, though, @pluralistic

pluralistic,
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@ClimateJenny Thank you, Jenny.

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Cigna's nopeinator; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/29/what-part-of-no/

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me THURSDAY (May 2) in Winnipeg (May 2) then FRIDAY (May 3) in CALGARY (May 3) and SATURDAY (May 4) in VANCOUVER. Next is Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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pluralistic, to random
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Cigna - like all private health insurers - has two contradictory imperatives:

I. To keep its customers healthy; and

II. To make as much money for its shareholders as is possible.

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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/2024/04/29/what-part-of-no/#dont-you-understand

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/27/for-the-little-people/

#Pluralistic

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pluralistic,
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TODAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, then in Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

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Anyone who says "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product" has been suckered in by Big Tech, whose cargo-cult version of markets and the discipline they impose on companies.

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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/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

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pluralistic,
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@osaka_animator it's not an excerpt. It is a thread. The thread contains the entire essay. You chose one sentence and asked me a question that was answered with a large amount of detail in the following posts. If you don't want to read the thread that's fine but it's pretty silly to say I read the opening sentence of a long essay and have questions without at least glancing at the rest of the essay.

pluralistic,
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@osaka_animator

'Call me Ishmael.'

'Why? I'm confused. Is that your name? What is this book about? Why did you open with that line? Explain this to me. No, I don't want to read the book that has the answers. I just want to ask you questions that are almost certainly answered in the text right here that I am choosing not to read.'

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