Cory DoctorowToday's threads (a thread)
Inside: The problem with economic models; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all-models-are-wrong/
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I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, a post-#cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:
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The problem with economic models: Ideology disguised as math.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110136066879059583
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image When students of statistics are introduced to creating and interpreting models, they are introduced to George Box's maxim: *All models are wrong, some are useful.* It's a call for humility and perspective, a reminder to superimpose the messy world on your clean lines. -- 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/2023/04/03/all-models-are-wrong/#some-are-useful 1/
Hey look at this
* Non-functional pesticide, class action suit and countersuit agains biologist who revealed the issues https://colinpurrington.com/2021/01/posts-about-spartan-mosquito/
* Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis https://www.thenation.com/article/society/single-stair-building-codes-housing/
* Audiobooks Without Audible: The Hard Lessons I've Learned Routing Around Amazon https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/91897-audiobooks-without-audible-the-hard-lessons-i-ve-learned-routing-around-amazon.html
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Posts about Spartan Mosquito » Colin Purrington's blog
Below are my posts that discuss Spartan Mosquito (AC2T, Inc.) of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I never intended to publish more than my original 2019 review, but AC2T’s retaliatory lawsuit against me (#2 on the above list) prevented me from visiting my mom while she was dying and has cost me $90,000 in legal fees (update: I […]
#20yrsago @bruces on #TotalInformationAwareness https://www.wired.com/2003/04/i-want-my-tia/?pg=4
#20yrsago Chinese state sends 20m SMS messages to crush #SARS rumor https://web.archive.org/web/20030618180119/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,928906,00.html
#20yrsago Found poetry from #Rumsfeld’s speeches https://web.archive.org/web/20030415133226/http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042/
#20yrsago OS X floppy disk RAID https://web.archive.org/web/20030601111810/http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm
#15yrsago Best practices for water imbibing: “Just drink when you’re thirsty” https://www.npr.org/2008/04/03/89323934/five-myths-about-drinking-water
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I Want My TIA
VIEW Total Information Awareness will consign Google to the Stone Age. By now, you’ve heard all about Total Information Awareness, the Darpa program designed to jump-start new methods of knowledge gathering, integration, and prediction. It’s one of our high tech answers to the terrorist menace of bin Laden and his many Osama wannabes. But if […]
#15yrsago Debating the feasibility of an in-flight #LiquidBomb https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/the_liquid_bomb.html
#15yrsago Boston judge: making files available to download isn’t piracy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/making-available-distribution-says-court-london-sire-v-doe
#15yrsago Air Canada: for $35, we’ll let you talk to customer-service reps who can actually help you with a cancelled flight https://www.thestar.com/business/2008/04/03/air_canada_to_charge_for_customer_service.html
#15yrsago Japanese creative packaging design solutions to ugly barcodes https://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/04/japanese-creative-barcodes.html
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#15yrsago #CharlesManson uses #CreativeCommons licenses https://web.archive.org/web/20080403104925/http://blog.limewire.com/posts/1616-Even-Charles-Manson-Digs-Creative-Commons
#15yrsago China’s instant cities — jaw-dropping National Geo feature https://web.archive.org/web/20080402102202/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0706/feature4/index.html
#15yrsago Banks refuse to take title on repossessed crappy houses https://web.archive.org/web/20080406130131/http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/04/the-advantages.html
#10yrsago #IainBanks: I’m dying of cancer, this book will be my last https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/03/iain-banks-gall-bladder-cancer
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#10yrsago Podcast to mark centennial of #MarcDavis, co-creator of #HauntedMansion, Pirates of the Caribbean https://mousetalgia.libsyn.com/remembering-marc-davis-with-alice-davis
#10yrsago Autonomous sensory meridian response – self-diagnosed neurological condition/superpower that makes you really enjoy whispering https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/maria-spends-20-minutes-folding-towels-why-millions-are-mesmerised-by-asmr-videos-7956866.html
#10yrsago Queen goes on austerity footing, receives mere £5M pay-rise from the taxpayers https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/02/queen-gets-5m-payrise-taxpayer
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Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast : Mousetalgia Episode 230: Remembering Marc Davis with Alice Davis
Mousetalgia is your Disneyland Resort podcast, featuring news, travel tips, hotel reviews, dining reviews, theme park news, Disney history, Disney film reviews, news from the Walt Disney Family Museum, interviews with Imagineers, and more!
#5yrsago Offering users transparency and privacy is the only way Big Tech can avoid being turned into content cops https://dangillmor.medium.com/why-tech-platforms-should-give-users-more-control-and-how-they-can-do-it-6c6c48ab90c0
#5yrsago The technologies that would make the web more participatory https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3fa490ae5cbc
#5yrsago Eight months ago, #PaneraBread was warned that they were leaking up to 7 million customers’ data. They fixed it yesterday. Kinda. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/panerabread-com-leaks-millions-of-customer-records/
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#5yrsago Even the telco industry thinks #AjitPai is an asshole for maiming #Lifeline, a broadband subsidy for poor Americans https://www.techdirt.com/2018/04/03/fcc-boss-under-fire-facts-optional-attack-low-income-broadband-programs/
#5yrsago Analysis of all the elections since Trump produces no clear answers on the class and suburban/urban correlates of flippability https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/be-skeptical-of-anyone-who-tells-you-they-know-how-democrats-can-win-in-november/
#5yrsago #AlexJones falsely accused a guy of being the Parkland school shooter, so now he’s being sued for more than $1,000,000 https://www.thedailybeast.com/falsely-accused-parkland-school-shooter-sues-alex-jones-infowars-for-defamation/
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#5yrsago 2018 tsunami: Teachers lead mass strikes in four red states that voted for Trump in 2016 https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/381307-teachers-flex-political-muscle-in-red-state-strikes/
#5yrsago The Manhattan property bubble is bursting https://www.ft.com/content/b0ab3fa6-36a7-11e8-8eee-e06bde01c544
#15yrsago Difference between feeling secure and being secure https://www.wired.com/2008/04/securitymatters-0403/
#15yrsago Microsoft busted by Indian government for avoiding royalty tax by saying that it sells — not licenses — its software https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/microsoft-told-to-pay-tax-on-licence-fee-for-software/articleshow/2921289.cms
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Teachers flex political muscle in red-state strikes
Thousands of teachers marched Monday on state capitals in Oklahoma and Kentucky, shuttering schools and demanding that Republican-controlled legislatures vote to increase their pay. The demonstrations come on the heels of a nine-day strike in West Virginia, where teachers secured a 5 percent pay raise, and protests in Arizona last week, where teachers wore red…
#15yrsago How an ISP music-license should work https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/monetizing-file-sharing-collective-licensing-good-isp-tax-bad
#15yrsago Fuji makes you sign bizarre EULA to buy a camera https://memex.craphound.com/2008/04/02/fuji-makes-you-sign-bizarre-eula-to-buy-a-camera/
#15yrsago Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to domestic military operations https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/administration-asserts-no-fourth-amendment-domestic-military-operations
#15yrsago Short story reads like the first page of Snow Crash, recombined and awesome — Leonard Richardson’s “Mallory” https://futurismic.com/2008/04/01/mallory-by-leonard-richardson/
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Monetizing File-Sharing: Collective Licensing Good, ISP Tax Bad
Last week at SXSW, music industry veteran Jim Griffin broached the idea that file sharers pay a small fee through their ISPs in exchange for unlimited file sharing. There is a great deal to recommend an idea like this (as we've been saying since 2004), but there's a right way and a wrong way to go...
#10yrsago Notorious porno copyright trolls #PrendaLaw have a very bad day in court https://www.popehat.com/2013/04/02/prenda-laws-attorneys-take-the-fifth-rather-than-answer-judge-wrights-questions/
#10yrsago Free US court records service #RECAP gets two major features, in Aaron Swartz’s memory https://web.archive.org/web/20130403140545/https://www.recapthelaw.org/2013/04/02/two-recap-grants-awarded-in-memory-of-aaron-swartz/
#5yrsago A hive of scum and villainy: meet the right-wing “Democrats” the DCCC is planning to win 2018 with https://jacobin.com/2018/04/democratic-party-red-to-blue-list-candidates/
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#5yrsago Even insured Americans flock to Mexico for low-cost, high-quality health-care https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2563-millions-americans-go-to-mexico-when-they-need-healthcare.html
#5yrsago #JohnOliver on America’s immigration courts, where families are torn apart and young children represent themselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fB0GBwJ2QA
#5yrsago Here are the moats and walls Facebook has been building for years to defend against #DeleteFacebook https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbx7zm/facebook-has-been-preparing-for-deletefacebook-for-more-than-a-decade
#5yrsago Governing a decentralized internet without votes https://medium.com/@nayafia/the-problem-with-voting-8cff39f771e8
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#5yrsago On the junk science and excellent PR of #CambridgeAnalytica https://memex.craphound.com/2018/04/02/on-the-junk-science-and-excellent-pr-of-cambridge-analytica/
#5yrsago West Virginia is contagious: mass teacher walkouts in Kentucky and Oklahoma https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/teachers-walkout-oklahoma-kentucky/index.html
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Saturday's threads: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110124713140800834
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pixsynnussija/ #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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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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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…
Eohippa@pluralistic
Though I love audiobooks, I have been anti-Amazon for two decades and pro-library since age six. Imagine my actual thrill when I saw that much of your work is available w/ my library card via the Cloud Library.
Thanks for pointing out your dedication to non-Audible audiobooks, and thanks for the extra miles you put in to get there.
Though I love audiobooks, I have been anti-Amazon for two decades and pro-library since age six. Imagine my actual thrill when I saw that much of your work is available w/ my library card via the Cloud Library.
Thanks for pointing out your dedication to non-Audible audiobooks, and thanks for the extra miles you put in to get there.
Asa