jnareb, 23 days ago

@pluralistic In regards to "The dancing robot on stage at the splashy event is literally a guy in a robot-suit" I can only say WTF? Boston Dynamics had created human like (and dog like) robots, and they work.

pluralistic, 23 days ago

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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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

You were promised a jetpack by liars: AIs and self-driving cars are the new jetpacks.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112456967534700484

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

Hey look at this

• Ada goes to the set: let’s make an animated movie https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240515-01.html

• Cloudseeder https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder

• How Much is a Planet Worth? https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-much-is-a-planet-worth

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

#15yrsago Gigantic study of UK CCTVs find that they should be used in parking lots, scrapped elsewhere https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/may/18/cctv-crime-police

#15yrsago Montreal cop cuffs, busts and fines student $450 for not holding escalator rail in subway https://web.archive.org/web/20090517012200/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090515.wescalator16/BNStory/National/home

#10yrsago How advocacy beat ACTA in Europe https://web.archive.org/web/20140522133328/http://jip.vmhost.psu.edu/ojs/index.php/jip/article/view/168

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren proposes legislation to enshrine Roe v Wade in Federal law and guarantee reproductive health care in all insurance plans https://medium.com/@teamwarren/congressional-action-to-protect-choice-aaf94ed25fb5

#5yrsago Europe’s top trustbuster thinks it’ll be impossible to break up Facebook https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/eu-competition-commissioner-facebook-breakup-would-be-last-resort/#ftag=CAD590a51e

#1yrago The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer) https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/17/free-as-in-freefile/#tell-me-something-i-dont-know

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

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

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112451787428199602

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

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

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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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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

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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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

Upcoming appearances:

• Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
  https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/

• Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
  https://media-ecology.org/convention

• HOPE XV, Jul 14 (Queens, NY)
  https://www.hope.net/talks.html

• American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
  https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

Recent appearances:

• Suur Futuroloogiline Kongress
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hITj793htg&t=398s

• That Word Chat
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwEy_mACEY

• Come sfuggire al “Merdocene” e costruire un Internet migliore (Torino Biennale Tecnologia)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5NC2EZCYBg

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

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18+ pluralistic, 23 days ago

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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compfu, 22 days ago

@pluralistic A great read!

In one sentence it says „Golden Age stfnal dreams“. Is that a typo or an abbreviation/reference I don’t get? 🤔

pluralistic, 22 days ago

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

xorn, 23 days ago

@pluralistic Obviously it would be bad for a stoned asshole to fly around over my head with explosives strapped to their back. That's why I'm founding a startup that'll give free jetpack rides to Series A investors at the next Burning Man