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(DIR) Post #Ac4usCgKV4mgKaqmq8 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:14:06Z
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Today's threads (a thread)Inside: Larry Summers' inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/20/bloodletting/#Pluralistic1/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usDhmh9XfVOXSkK by Willow@blahaj.zone
2023-11-22T19:00:12.309Z
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr The same Larry Summers that just became a board member at OpenAI?I wonder why someone who's whole belief structure is "workers have too much power" would want to join OpenAI? What a mystery.
(DIR) Post #Ac4usEVlhJWa0PvNei by keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk
2023-11-22T19:14:33Z
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@Willow @pluralistic The same guy that reckoned millions of Americans needed to lose their jobs to get inflation down?https://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-years-6-unemployment-1-114324347.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKdf5K1yx2KRVmKOmM-Til_CdfHI9PDH3kijt1ZOwyNcG8LAJJhBOCca1BANP3TkZOMpm5EADb_OgFJaZc4tRb-eYHNyUwG1zkNT7PzhFCwxGDptBNNIt6jT1CJlfbAWAiB3fPT8C0dSUXXjiNxqi4C1vNDBhAV-OrfRug_Hh0ZG
(DIR) Post #Ac4usEn8ejQ2sI3FjM by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:14:39Z
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Today (November 20), I'm at the #Simsbury, CT Public Library at 7PM, presenting my new novel, The Lost Cause, a preapocalyptic tale of hope in the climate emergency:https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257On Wednesday, November 22, I'm at the #Toronto Reference Library with Vass Bednar:https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/705457551527?aff=oddtdtcreator 2/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usFW9xLQp7v7Cu8 by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-11-22T22:18:38Z
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@keefeglise @Willow @pluralistic quicker way? Tax the rich, federally. It'll be much quicker, and it'll fuck everything up much less. Very very fucking simple
(DIR) Post #Ac4usGw4gTktWaFPw8 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:15:14Z
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Larry Summers' inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action: Now can we please stop listening to this ghoul?https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1114439490521723143/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usIvRHoR3hBxwDw by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:15:47Z
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Hey look at this* Chief Justice #JohnRoberts’s Guide to the New #SupremeCourtEthicsCode https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/chief-justice-john-robertss-guide-to-the-new-supreme-court-ethics-code (h/t #NakedCapitalism)* The stones left unturned in the #SamBankmanFried trial https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-stones-left-unturned* NAKATOMI CORP. CHRISTMAS '88 SWEATSHIRT https://www.lastexittonowhere.com/catalogue/nakatomi-corp-christmas-88-green-white-ink_16430/ (h/t #SuperPunch)4/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usL0pWjw6AUVGu8 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:16:41Z
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#15yrsago #FreeToBeYouAndMe: the 35 Anniversary Edition: the book every kid needs https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/20/free-to-be-you-and-me-the-35-anniversary-edition-the-book-every-kid-needs/#15yrsago Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use technology and why, this is a must-read https://web.archive.org/web/20081127101442/http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/report/digitalyouth-WhitePaper.pdf#10yrsago Data visualization shows US isolation in pushing for brutal #TransPacificPartnership https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2013/11/18/the-united-states-is-isolated-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-negotiations/#5yrsago Copyright and the “#MaleGaze”: a feminist critique of copyright law https://web.archive.org/web/20181106072516/http://harvardjlg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HLG204_2018.pdf5/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usNPMcUkVb9ztQG by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:17:28Z
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#5yrsago Leaks reveal the health care industry’s playbook for smearing and spinning #MedicareForAll out of existence by 2020 https://theintercept.com/2018/11/20/medicare-for-all-healthcare-industry/#5yrsago “The End of Trust” – @eff/#McSweeney’s collaboration on #privacy and #surveillance – is in stores and free to download now! https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust#5yrsago On the role of truth and philosophy in fantastic fiction http://dreamcafe.com/2018/11/19/truth-as-a-vehicle-for-enhancing-fiction-fiction-as-a-vehicle-for-discovering-truth/6/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usPSyy0pdyxhoLA by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:17:51Z
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#5yrsago Trump spent $200,000,000 on the election stunt of sending 6,000 troops to the border, then withdrew them before the caravan arrived https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/trump-troops-border-caravan-stunt#5yrsago #Electrification 2.0: #RuralBroadband #CoOps are filling the void left by indifferent monopolists https://www.wired.com/story/rural-america-diy-internet-spirit-reboot/#5yrsago Dystopia watch: a roundup of the DOD’s new #LessLethalWeapons https://www.wired.com/story/ingredients-powering-defense-department-new-nonlethal-weapons/7/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usRVtMALcKZ5A9Y by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:18:08Z
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#5yrsago Portrait of a #FakeNews troll and the racist retiree who believes everything he writes https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html#5yrsago This month, the climate-denyingist red state AGs lost their jobs to Dems: time to sue the US government https://web.archive.org/web/20181120113921/https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/11/19/democratic-ag-midterm-climate-change/#1yrago Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/20/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-will-eventually-stop/8/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usTWfsEA6ZZSoeO by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:18:29Z
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Saturday's threads: Pinkdrunk Linkdump; and more!https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1114324604575393019/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usVZEHhOUu4fsuW by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:18:37Z
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My latest novel is "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):http://lost-cause.orgSigned, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/--My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:http://seizethemeansofcomputation.orgSigned copies available from Book Soup:https://www.booksoup.com/book/978180429124510/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usXWozcekzBYzR2 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:19:10Z
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Upcoming appearances: * Lost Cause at Simsbury Public Library, Nov 20 (#Simsbury, CT)https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257* Generation of Lost Causes, Nov 22 (#Toronto)https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/705457551527?aff=oddtdtcreator * Who Is Watching Big Tech? Nov 27 (#Toronto)https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408* The Lost Cause at #TheStrand (#NYC), Nov 29https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187* The Lost Cause at #FlyleafBooks (#ChapelHill), Dec 7https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-202311/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usZoyT6Mi644W0W by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:19:30Z
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Recent appearances:* Digital Markets Act; Interoperability; Entrenchment; Copyright; "What-About-Ism" (Digital Markets Research Hub)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm23pO5_WKM* Science fiction for a dystopian present (Institute of Art and Ideas)https://iai.tv/video/science-fiction-for-a-dystopian-present-cory-doctorow?_auid=2020* Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (@changelog)https://changelog.com/podcast/56512/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usbvQe4iUcf6hLU by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:19:41Z
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You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection! Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/20/bloodletting/--If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is ad-/tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🛋". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!Subscribe here: https://mail.flarn.com/mailman/listinfo/plura-list/--You can also get a fulltext RSS feed, licensed CC BY 4.0:https://pluralistic.net/feed/13/
(DIR) Post #Ac4usdsfNJhAgfpWJk by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2023-11-20T17:20:00Z
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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/)eof/
(DIR) Post #Ac4uv0iTRZt45dBxL6 by troy_frizzell@mstdn.social
2023-11-22T21:49:22Z
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@keefeglise @Willow @pluralistic If it's any consolation, Larry Summers is always wrong about everything. Excellent example of failing up by a mediocre white dude.
(DIR) Post #Ac4uv1exw6fv12YfVg by hannu_ikonen@med-mastodon.com
2023-11-22T22:17:16Z
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@troy_frizzell @keefeglise @Willow @pluralistic probably the best example in US history
(DIR) Post #Ac4uv2OLDOyHHlmuEi by fcktheworld587@social.linux.pizza
2023-11-22T22:19:11Z
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@hannu_ikonen @troy_frizzell @keefeglise @Willow @pluralistic were it not for DJT