Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread).
Inside: What the fediverse (does/n't) solve; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/
#NewYorkers! The state legislature has passed landmark #RightToRepair legislation, but Governor Hochul hasn't signed it and it might die. This would be a travesty. If you're in New York, visit https://eff.org/rtr to help tell the Governor that we can't afford to wait (and tell your friends in New York, too!).
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What the fediverse (does/n't) solve: We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109564921147797946
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, it's still a dictatorship, and subject to the dictator's whims. We must demand that the owners and leaders of tech platforms be fair and good - but we must also be prepared for them to fail at this, sometimes catastrophically. 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/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/#free-as-in-puppies 1/
Hey look at this
* Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2022/speech-to-text-with-whisper-how-i-use-it-why/ (h/t @brainwane)
* A Parent’s Typical Day, as Envisioned by My Child’s Preschool https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-parents-typical-day-as-envisioned-by-my-childs-preschool (h/t @jkottke )
* Balkan Cosmology by Bruce Sterling (2022) https://bruces.medium.com/balkan-cosmology-by-bruce-sterling-2022-9a06b9b28bc0
* In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm
* Why the super rich are inevitable https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/ (h/t @andybaio)
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Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why
Whisper, from OpenAI, is a new open source tool that "approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition"; "Moreover, it enables transcription in multiple languages, as well as translation from those languages into … | Cogito, Ergo Sumana | Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Hey look at this (cont'd)
* Private Equity Gave Your Bank Password to Hackers https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/private-equity-gave-your-bank-password
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#20yrsago Broadcast Flag in NYT https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Critics-Decry-Digital-TV-Signal-Coding-7146867.php
#20yrsago better !pout !cry https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88old/coming.html
#15yrsago What waterboarding feels like https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-waterboard/430894
#10yrsago Why George Bush, resigned his lifetime NRA membership https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/11/us/letter-of-resignation-sent-by-bush-to-rifle-association.html
#5yrsago Reviving my Xmas daddy-daughter podcast, with Poesy! https://ia600101.us.archive.org/25/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_282/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_282_Christmas_With_Poesy_2017_64kb.mp3
#5yrsago Reality Winner profile is a beautiful portrait of a brilliant, principled patriot who messed up https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/who-is-reality-winner.html
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Yesterday's threads: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109558816971167377
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Here are just two of the corporate giveaways hidden in the rushed, must-pass, end-of-year budget bill; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/22/must-pass/ #Pluralistic 1/
My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068
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a book about why creative labor markets are rigged - and how to unrig them Competition is supposed to be fundamental to capitalism. Over the last four decades though, greedy robber barons have worked out how to lock in customers and suppliers, eliminate competitors, and shake down everyone for more than their fair share. This…
My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Cory_Doctorow_-__Attack_Surface_HB_%26_TPB.html#/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Library Learning Experience/American Library Association (#NewOrleans), Jan 27-30
https://www.2023.alaliblearnx.org/cory-doctorow
* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (UCL Faculty of Laws), Feb 1
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2023/feb/online-chokepoint-capitalism-can-it-be-defeated
* Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum (#Canberra), Feb 17:
https://digital.org.au/2022/11/08/doctorow-giblin-first-speaker-announcement-ada-forum-2023/
* #Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (#Brussels), Mar 2:
https://www.brusselsconference.com/registration
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Recent appearances:
* Page One:
https://www.writegear.co.uk/podcast/e145-cory-doctorow-rebecca-giblin
* Capitol Forum:
https://thecapitolforum.com/resources/chokepoint-capitalism-with-author-cory-doctorow/
* New Books in Public Policy:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2niuM0c1PxBeU3PLgv2b9V
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Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/
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My latest Medium column is "'Metaverse' means 'pivot to video'"
https://doctorow.medium.com/metaverse-means-pivot-to-video-adbe09319038
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Scott Willsey@pluralistic I did and… it emailed my password back to me in plaintext. 😂🤦♂️
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Why do you (and most of my favorite authors) write more and faster than I can read? I manage to read two books a week, but that's not enough to read all the titles in my tsundoku. 😅
Also: congratulations!
@fifischwarz Thank you! Seven more books in production at the moment!
andy diller@pluralistic why are you treating this like twitter? Make one post.
@dillera As noted in my bio, I post long threads from this account and there are many ways to get my essays if you don't like my Mastodon style - RSS, newsletter, Medium, Tumblr, a blog, etc. I recommend unfollowing me here and subscribing to one of those if you prefer. Links at pluralistic.net.
@dillera (as to treating like Twitter, I can hardly think of anything more Twitterlike than signing up for a feed that has been posting long threads for several YEARS and lecturing the author of that thread about the one true way to use Mastodon, from your 12-day-old Mastodon account)
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@dillera some instances allow posts longer than the default character limit, but most stick with the default 500 bytes, which doesn't permit enough space to fit a thread like the one you're replying to into one post.
Cory tags every pos in all his long therads with CWs, which are easy to filter for as desired:
@shi thanks for the back context. just didn't expect toot storms over here- but hey, i fixed it and won't see them any more! Just strange to use this medium like that IMHO.