Warner canceled successful, profitable TV shows because the tax write-off made more even money than the shows. Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on the new TeamHumanShow.
Ep. 229 Journalist and author of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , Cory Doctorow shares his latest thoughts on the ways the economy and creativity are being hacked by the perpetrators of chokepoint capitalism.
#Introduction
I'm a professional editor with @NatureEcoEvo. I spend my days reading a huge variety of ecology manuscripts and helping papers through the review process.
I lurk on sites like this one (and Twitter for now) to stay aware of what ecologists are excited about. I also share exciting recent papers and editorial rants/wisdom from time to time.
Before becoming an editor, my research background was in disease ecology and animal behavior.
In recent years, we became too comfortable letting #Twitter define journalism & media. Algorithms often dictated the narratives we collectively paid attention to.
Absurd trends were covered by news outlets & ballooned into major stories while we missed so much real substance. And the quick takes of uninformed politicians & bad actors were forced upon anyone participating in the network.
It was bad for democracy. The #Mastodon model makes me hopeful we can do better. #twittermigration
I just looked this up for (another) media interview, so you should all know this too. There are currently 6,483 satellites in orbit. 3,273 of those are Starlinks, 461 are OneWeb. So about half of all satellites that have *ever been launched* were launched in the last ~3 years.
Source: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=tle
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