doctorowToday's Twitter threads! (a Twitter thread)
Inside: #IOS is now adware, The Woman Who Loved Giraffes, "Regular" Dems love Bernie, corporations own themselves, rental car loses internet and immbolizes itself, Coop's Randotti glow skulls, and more!
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First, though: I wrote a picture book! It's called POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER and it's out on Jul 20. It's about a little girl who won't go to bed because she has too much fun hunting monsters with field-expedient weapons she creates from her toys.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1228033537867014145
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Anne Dagg is a feminist biology icon, the first woman scientist to study giraffes (and thus the first to publish on how splendidly gay they are!). Her life is now a documentary: THE WOMAN WHO LOVED GIRAFFES.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230203073689112576
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New Jersey dumps algorithmic risk-assessment for bail, because training a machine learning system with racist criminal justice data just produces racist predictions.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230198558348828672
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Bernie Beats Trump on Twitter
“Algorithms Were Supposed to Fix the Bail System. They Haven't https://t.co/2F5lcR8qGw #GIGO is an iron law of computing, Part MMLVI. Feed a ML model racist criminal justice outcomes and it will give you racist suggestions, shellacked with a layer of empiricism. 1/”
Characteristically great commentary from @[email protected] on the "throwaway society," "Limits to Growth" and the possibility of a better future full of beautiful, well-made things.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230196134833819653
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Bernie Sanders is incredibly popular with "regular" Democrats, enjoying by far the highest approvals and lowest disapprovals. It's only the Democratic Pearl Clutcher's Caucus who considers him "divisive."
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230190902053761024
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Bernie Beats Trump on Twitter
“Regular Democrats Just Aren’t Worried About Bernie https://t.co/5bYQHfLDfu @SenSanders has the highest national approval rating among Dems (71%) & the lowest disapproval rating (19%). His approval is 6% higher than Warren, 16% higher than Biden, 18% higher than Buttigieg... 1/”
At the Juarez True Value, it costs 99 pesos ($5.70) to buy enough rebar to climb Trump's wall. The resulting artifact blends in perfectly with the wall itself and can be slid through the slats for easy descent.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230189046392999936
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Companies own themselves: the myth of the shareholder as corporate owner doesn't add up, and neither does the idea that boards represent shareholders.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230187191403307008
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Bernie Beats Trump on Twitter
“Privatizing Sovereignty, Socializing Property: What Economics Doesn’t Teach You About the Corporation https://t.co/0XGEahXEKo One of the most exciting, eye-opening articles I've read in AGES. Showing how shareholder capitalism is a lie BY ITS PROPONENTS' OWN TERMS...Genius. 1/”
Rental car loses mobile phone service, immobilizes itself. Car company suggests driver sleep in the car overnight to see if service improves. It's Unauthorized Bread with cars instead of carbs.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230182819327926272
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Nearly half of medical devices are vulnerable to the Bluekeep bug, because no one ever patches anything.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230179579093897216
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Coop's made a glow-in-the-dark litho in tribute to Randotti's amazing Haunted Mansion souvenirs, the apex of Disney park golden age merch.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230174994312773632
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Bernie Beats Trump on Twitter
“VOODOO GLOW SKULL Silkscreen Print (glows in the dark!) https://t.co/IWpZZCaMZb Randotti skulls were the absolute apex of the golden era of Haunted Mansion merchandise. @ARTofCOOP's long-range experiments with 2D adaptations of these 3D works are such a delight to me! 1/”
Ios is adware: the fact that you're paying for the product doesn't protect you from being the product. Only the fear that you'll defect to a rival does that, and monopolists need not fear that outcome.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1230141632269312005
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Bernie Beats Trump on Twitter
“"We're the good guys, so what we do is good" (tautologies are a hell of a drug). To use an Ios device is to be blitzed by an unblockable carpet-bombing of ads for Apple's upsell services. Every screen in Itunes Store tries to trick you into signing up for Apple Music. 8/”
Here's yesterday's threads!
Kickstarter unionizes, Google ad extortion, 2000+ Mexican cookbooks 1789-2020, #MedicareForAll saves $450b/yr, dying malls into Meow Wolfs, Bloomberg tries to censor China criticism, VERY personalized apps & more!
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1229864453883039744
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Bernie Beats Trump on Twitter
“Today's Twitter threads! (a Twitter thread) Inside: Kickstarter unionizes, Google ad extortion, 2000+ Mexican cookbooks 1789-2020, #MedicareForAll saves $450b/yr, turning dying malls into Meow Wolfs, Bloomberg tries to censor China criticism, VERY personalized apps and more! 1/”
Want to read this as a webpage? Here's a permalink:
https://craphound.com/news/2020/02/19/pluralist-19-feb-2020/
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Hey, Hugo nominators, my novella Unauthorized Bread is up on Ars Technica!
(it's also shortlisted for Canada's national book prize, Canada Reads; it's being made into a TV show by Topic & a graphic novel with Firstsecond)
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Kartik AgaramClick on button: "Do not sell my Personal Information"
Form element: "Do not sell my personal information"
Initial state of switch: right (on).
Fine print:
> If you want us to stop "selling" your data, toggle the sale of personal data button above to the left so that it is "off"
Observe the use of scare quotes on the third occurrence of the word 'sell'.
Ars Technica, you might want to stop associating with these Fucking Arseholes.
