Notices by Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Can someone help me form an opinion on the #DOJ wanting to force #Google to sell #Chrome. Is there a tldr on the expected consequences of this? :boost_love:

@elronxenu No, that badly misses the point. You couldn't master all of those subjects unless you lived to the age of 1,000.

818 words (86591 total) on Enshittification (a nonfiction book about platform decay for Fararr, Straus, Giroux) #DailyWords

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Upcoming appearances:

* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
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* IA et “merdification“ d’internet: peut-on envisager un nouveau web? (Remote), Dec 12
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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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Tuesday's threads: Forcing Google to spin off Chrome (and Android?); and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113509114581963056

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#5yrsago When Republicans say “How will you pay for Medicare for All?” Democrats should answer: “Mexico will pay for it” https://theintercept.com/2019/11/20/democratic-debate-budget-deficit/

#5yrsago Twitter censures UK Tory Party for changing its blue-check account name to “FactCheckUK” during the prime ministerial debates https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/19/world/conservative-party-fact-check-twitter-intl/index.html

#1yrago Larry Summers' inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/20/bloodletting/#inflated-ego

#1yrago @naomikritzer s "Liberty's Daughter" https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/21/podkaynes-dad-was-a-dick/#age-of-consent

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#5yrsago In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide “free” crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks https://appalachianprisonbookproject.org/2019/11/20/how-much-does-it-cost-to-read-a-free-book-on-a-free-tablet/

#5yrsago DoJ to scrap the Paramount antitrust rule that prohibits movie studios from buying or strong-arming movie theaters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-film-antitrust/justice-department-asks-court-to-scrap-decades-old-paramount-antitrust-decrees-idUSKBN1XS2G0/

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#5yrsago "Out of Home Advertising”: the billboards that spy on you as you move through public spaces https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/digital-billboards-are-tracking-you-and-they-want-you-to-see-their-ads-a1117246807/

#5yrsago How to recognize AI snake oil https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf

#5yrsago High prices and debt mean millennials don’t plan to stop renting, and that’s before their parents retire and become dependent on them https://www.businessinsider.com/more-millennials-planning-to-rent-forever-cant-afford-housing-2019-11

#5yrsago Mayor Pete: Obama should have left Chelsea Manning to rot in prison for 35 years https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-troubled-by-clemency-for-chelsea-manning/

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#10yrsago Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: why only an anthropologist can tell the story of Anonymous https://web.archive.org/web/20141122163653/https://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9373852/the-anonymous-ghost-in-the-machine/

#10yrsago Secret history of the poop emoji https://www.fastcompany.com/3037803/the-oral-history-of-the-poop-emoji-or-how-google-brought-poop-to-america

#10yrsago Gates Foundation mandates open access for all the research it funds https://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/11/gates-foundation-announces-worlds-strongest-policy-on-open-access-research.html

#10yrsago Leaked docs detail Big Oil and Big PR’s plans for a opinion-manipulation platform https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-top-pr-firm-promised-big-oil-software-that-can-convert-average-citizens/

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#15yrsago Traffic cameras used to harass and limit movement of peaceful protestors https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/25/surveillance-police-number-plate-recognition

#15yrsago Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude https://gothamist.com/food/restaurant-owners-email-to-staff-belongs-in-tyrant-hall-of-fame

#10yrsago Firefox switches default search from Google to Yahoo https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/in-major-shift-firefox-to-use-yahoo-search-by-default-in-us/

#10yrsago Blackpool’s Broadway Hotel fines guests £100 for negative review https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30100973

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#20yrsago Tech-support generation spends Thanksgiving patching for parents https://web.archive.org/web/20041120052426/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6522314/site/newsweek/

#20yrsago Neal Stephenson’s System of the World concludes the Baroque Trilogy https://memex.craphound.com/2004/11/20/neal-stephensons-system-of-the-world-concludes-the-baroque-trilogy/

#20yrsago Internet “Hopkin” meme unravelled https://mike.whybark.com/archives/1951

#20yrsago Full-back HTML tattoo https://web.archive.org/web/20050126081525/http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A41118/high/tattoo4.jpg

#15yrsago Owner of trendy Manhattan restaurant Paradou plumbs new depths of evil bad-bossitude https://gothamist.com/food/restaurant-owners-email-to-staff-belongs-in-tyrant-hall-of-fame

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Hey look at this

* Judicial Remedies To Restore Competition in the Market for General Search https://tobin.yale.edu/sites/default/files/publication-documents/2024-09/Judicial%20Remedies%20To%20Restore%20Lost%20Competition%20in%20the%20Market%20for%20General%20Search-for%20posting.pdf (h/t @mnot)

* Considerations for Effective Search Competition Remedies https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/t7oedjdyfvbmxxxlyz6do1nrs5mttzuc (h/t @mnot)

* One Billion Users: The Social Media Card Game https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmasnick/one-billion-users-the-social-media-card-game (h/t @mmasnick)

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Expert agencies and elected legislatures: Legislatures are entitled to their own (political) opinions but not their own facts.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113520524140096306

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Expert agencies and elected legislatures; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/policy-based-evidence/

#Pluralistic

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They dress this up in the language of democracy, but the destruction of the expert agencies that turn the political will of our representatives into our daily lives is anything but democratic. It's a prelude to transforming the nation into a land of epistemological chaos, where you never know what's coming out of your faucet.

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That's the point. The idea that we should just trust the market to figure this out, or that all regulation should be expressly written into law, is just a way of saying, "you will likely die a horrible death."

Trump - and his hatchet men Musk and Ramaswamy - are not setting out to create evidence-based policy. They are pursuing policy-based *evidence*, firing everyone capable of telling them how to turn the values espouse (prosperity and safety for all Americans) into policy.

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