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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI's "human in the loop" isn't; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/30/a-neck-in-a-noose/

#Pluralistic

A cowboy astride a racing horse, lassoing a man who is bound and gagged, his face a mask of panic. The cowboy's head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The horse is racing along a glowing platonic gridded plane as seen in the Tron movies. The background is a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowksis' 'Matrix' movies.

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Cryteria (modified)
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — A cowboy astride a racing horse, lassoing a man who is bound and gagged, his face a mask of panic. The cowboy's head has been replaced with the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The horse is racing along a glowing platonic gridded plane as seen in the Tron movies. The background is a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowksis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

John Quiggin @johnquiggin@aus.social · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic 50 Years ago, I remember a MAD Magazine piece in which the computer prediction of an election had gone wrong. The final scene showed teams of high school volunteers correcting errors in the ballots so the outcome would line uo with the prediction. Plus ca change ...

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

I'll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention:

https://tusconscificon.com/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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AI's "human in the loop" isn't: A moral crumple zone, an accountability sink, but not a supervisor.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113396440337744404

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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Hey look at this

* EU to Apple: “Let Users Choose Their Software”; Apple: “Nah” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/eu-apple-let-users-choose-their-software-apple-nah

* The cult of the founders https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-cult-of-the-founders

* Bruno Pontiroli’s Absurd Portraits Highlight Quirky Behavior and Zoological Buffoonery https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/bruno-pontiroli-histoires-naturelles-et-grotesques/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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#20yrsago @GreatDismal on ObL tape https://web.archive.org/web/20041016033110/https://williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_10_01_archive.asp#109907889910593617

#20yrsago Apple to iPod owners: “Eat shit and die” https://memex.craphound.com/2004/10/30/apple-to-ipod-owners-eat-shit-and-die-updated/

#15yrsago Hallowe’en is safe, your kids are safe, the only scary thing is the warnings https://www.huffpost.com/entry/as-goes-halloween-so-goes_b_340163

#15yrsago Homebrew backyard railroad recreates Disneyland https://web.archive.org/web/20091208070906/http://cptrr.webs.com/

#15yrsago Gang steals phone wires out from under English roads https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/8333774.stm

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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#10yrsago Pizzeria asks judge to find rival’s flavor to be trademark-infringing https://www.techdirt.com/2014/10/30/pizzeria-attempts-to-trademark-flavor-pizza-yes-seriously/

#10yrsago 100K Hungarians march against Internet tax https://www.vice.com/en/article/huge-internet-tax-protests-galvanize-government-opposition-in-hungary/

#10yrsago Dissecting the arguments of liberal apologists for Obama’s surveillance and secret war https://nationalinterest.org/feature/big-brother’s-liberal-friends-11515

#10yrsago Potato-chip surveillance: once you start, you just can’t stop https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/27/stasi-style-outrages-low-spies-stoop-mi5

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago The @internetarchive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars https://web.archive.org/web/20191031041755/https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/weaving-books-into-the-web-starting-with-wikipedia/

#5yrsago With “OK boomer,” millennials are killing intergenerational resentment https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/ok-boomer.html

#5yrsago Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/whatsapp-sues-israels-nso-for-allegedly-helping-spies-hack-phones-around-the-world-idUSKBN1X82BE/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/30/the-first-scarfolk-annual-a-mysterious-artifact-from-a-curiously-familiar-eternal-grimdark-1970s/

#1yrago Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/30/markets-remaining-irrational/#steins-law

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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Yesterday's threads: Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113392456646165661

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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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:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

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

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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Upcoming appearances:

* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/

* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
https://icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/pages/Programme

* IA et “merdification“ d’internet: peut-on envisager un nouveau web? (Remote), Dec 12
https://www.unige.ch/comprendre-le-numerique/conferences-publiques1/cycle-5-2024-2025/ia-et-merdification-dinternet-peut-envisager-un-nouveau-web/

* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
https://issala.org/event/issa-la-december-18-dinner-meeting/

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Trojan Duck @todwest@beige.party · 2 weeks ago

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@pluralistic The object in that sentence didn't need the modifier. LOL

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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Recent appearances:

* Maximum Iceland Scenario ( @TWiT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz0

* Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow ( @digitaliafm)
https://digitalia.fm/744/

* Was There Ever An Old, Good Internet? (David Graeber Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Jlxx5TboE

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

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