Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  2 months ago
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT.

Inside: Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy; and more!

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A gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.enA gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.enA gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.enA gigantic figure whose head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. He peers through a magnifying glass at two boys who stand on his palm, dressed in 19th century child laborer's garb. They stare defiantly at the viewer. The scene is posed on a background whose sky is the 'code waterfall' effect seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies and whose ground is a cracked, receding abstract pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en