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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The new globalism is global labor; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/20/a-common-foe/

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pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0BQGGP2XT/

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Depending on how you look at it, I either grew up in the periphery of the labor movement, or atop it, or surrounded by it. For a kid, labor issues don't really hold a lot of urgency - in places with mature labor movements, kids don't really have jobs, and the part-time jobs I had as a kid (paper route, cleaning a dance studio) were pretty benign.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/20/a-common-foe/#the-multinational-playbook

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@pluralistic

I know what your least favorite audiobook platform is, but what's your favorite way for [Canadians] to buy audiobooks from you?

pluralistic,
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@jpaskaruk Anything works, and you can buy direct from me: https://craphound.com/shop

paneerakbari, to random
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just @pluralistic in a featured spot at my local library!

pluralistic,
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@paneerakbari Fab!

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Monopoly is capitalism's gerrymander; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/18/market-discipline/

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pluralistic,
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For the rest of May, my bestselling solarpunk utopian novel The Lost Cause (2023) is available as a $2.99, DRM-free ebook!

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Cause-Cory-Doctorow-ebook/dp/B0BQGGP2XT/

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pluralistic,
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@forooghian the sale is Amazon only

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You don't have to accept the arguments of capitalism's defenders to take those arguments seriously. When Adam Smith railed against rentiers and elevated profit to a means of converting the intrinsic selfishness of the wealthy into an engine of production, he had a point:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/cloudalists/#cloud-capital

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/18/market-discipline/#too-big-to-care

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Sunset empire

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Eternal vigilance is the price of travel

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: You were promised a jetpack by liars; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/

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TONIGHT (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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pluralistic,
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@compfu https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/stfnal

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As a science fiction writer, I find it weird that some sf tropes - like space colonization - have become culture-war touchstones. You know, that whole "we were promised jetpacks" thing.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/#twenty-one-seconds

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This essay by @pluralistic incidentally sheds some light on my almost comical struggles to get broadband at a house in a semi-rural area, which recently culminated in LARGE ISP assuring me that they have no fiber going to the house owned by the neighbor who gets service from LARGE ISP’s RESELLER. As my neighbor demonstrably has Internet access, I can only assume that the packets are hand-carried to their front door by helpful elves.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112451309811648263

pluralistic,
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@dolmen @angusm

I already wrote that story!

https://reactormag.com/shannons-law/

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Utah's getting some of America's best broadband; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/symmetrical-10gb-for-119/

#Pluralistic

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pluralistic,
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TOMORROW (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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Residents of 21 cities in Utah have access to some of the fastest, most competitively priced broadband in the US, at speeds up to 10gb/s and prices as low as $75/month. It's uncapped, and the connections are symmetrical: perfect for uploading and downloading. And it's all thanks to the government.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/symmetrical-10gb-for-119/#utopia

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/15/they-trust-me-dumb-fucks/

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pluralistic,
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TONIGHT (May 15), I'm in North Hollywood for a screening of Stephanie Kelton's Finding the Money:

https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15

Friday (May 17), I'm in San Francisco at the @internetarchive to keynote the tenth anniversary of the @AuthorsAlliance:

https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

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The big news in search this week is that Google is continuing its transition to "AI search" - instead of typing in search terms and getting links to websites, you'll ask Google a question and an AI will compose an answer based on things it finds on the web:

https://blog.google/products/search/generative-ai-google-search-may-2024/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/15/they-trust-me-dumb-fucks/#ai-search

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pluralistic, (edited ) to random
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When it comes to AI art (or "art"), it's hard to find a nuanced position that respects creative workers' labor rights, free expression, copyright law's vital exceptions and limitations, and aesthetics.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

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pluralistic,
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@bensomers

Commercial impact wouldn't apply to the model, it would apply to the use of the model.

In Betamax, SCOTUS held that a tool doesn't infringe provided it can "sustain a substantial non-infringing use." There is no question that an LLM can sustain a substantial noninfringing use, e.g., analyzing police reports for New Orleans Innocence Project.

A user of an LLM might infringe copyright, but the LLM itself doesn't.

pluralistic,
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@markuswerle @timoreilly @internetarchive @AuthorsAlliance

Neither of these apply. The first third of my essay explains in detail why model training isn't infringing, so I won't rehearse that here.

If it's not infringing, then it doesn't require a license to undertake.

If a user need not license a work to make some use of it, they need not abide by license terms, either.

You're having a labor issue, and you're trying to solve it with copyright, and it won't work well or at all.

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