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Inside: AI "art" and uncanniness; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/
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Inside: AI "art" and uncanniness; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/
#Pluralistic
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Ten wpis został zedytowany (2 lata temu)
Cory Doctorow
•https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the-future-of-ai/0642572001651/
Wednesday (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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Tim O’Reilly and Cory Doctorow on “Enshittification” and the Future of AI
www.oreilly.comCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/3
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112435369749859354
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Cory Doctorow
2024-05-13 19:13:10
Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/4
* 2024 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists https://locusmag.com/2024/05/2024-locus-awards-top-ten-finalists/
* Finding the Money: A Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Maren Poitras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLeCLnYLfOE
* Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/10/1092241/tech-workers-should-shine-a-light-on-the-industrys-secretive-work-with-the-military/
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Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military
William Fitzgerald (MIT Technology Review)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/5
#20yrsago Open source games from 1978 https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
#15yrsago Why RIAA lawsuits matter to the Free Software Foundation https://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing-why-the-fsf-cares-about-riaa-lawsuits-090513/
#15yrsago Jesse Ventura: I could make Chickenhawk Cheney confess to the Sharon Tate murders with a waterboard https://crooksandliars.com/heather/jesse-ventura-you-give-me-water-board-dick
#15yrsago French “three-strikes” copyright law passes — but may be dead anyway https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2009/05/13/solemn-burial-for-hadopi-in-french-national-assembly/
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Jesse Ventura: You Give Me A Water Board, Dick Cheney And One Hour, And I'll Have Him Confess To The Sharon Tate Murders
Heather (Crooks and Liars)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/6
#15yrsago The Photographer: gripping graphic memoir about doctors in Soviet Afghanistan, accompanied by brilliant photos https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/12/the-photographer-gripping-graphic-memoir-about-doctors-in-soviet-afghanistan-accompanied-by-brilliant-photos/
#10yrsago You are a Gmail user https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
#10yrsago Forged certificates common in HTTPS sessions https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/significant-portion-of-https-web-connections-made-by-forged-certificates/
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Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours
copyrighteousCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/7
#10yrsago Spurious correlations: an engine for head-scratching coincidences http://www.tylervigen.com
#10yrsago NSA sabotaged exported US-made routers with backdoors https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden
#10yrsago Podcast: Why it is not possible to regulate robots https://ia600209.us.archive.org/28/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_272/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_272_Why_it_is_not_possible_to_regulate_robots.mp3
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Glenn Greenwald: how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers
Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/8
#10yrsago Ukip councillor sends cops to activist’s house, ask him to delete critical tweet https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/12/police-ask-blogger-remove-legitimate-tweet-ukip
#10yrsago Bletchley Park Trust erects “Berlin Wall” to cut off on-site computer history museum https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/12/bletchley-park-national-museum-computing-berlin-wall-restored-colossus-codebreaking
#5yrsago Vancouver’s housing bubble was driven by billions in laundered criminal proceeds https://www.seattletimes.com/business/billions-in-dirty-cash-helped-fuel-vancouver-b-c-s-housing-boom/
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Bletchley Park row rages on as restored site opens to public with 'Berlin Wall'
Alex Hern (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/9
#5yrsago Amazon’s monopsony power: the other antitrust white meat https://www.promarket.org/2019/02/15/is-amazon-violating-the-sherman-act/
#5yrsago Trump supporters astonished to learn that the man they gave $20m to “build the wall” has nothing to show for it https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/11/group-raised-more-than-million-build-wall-now-some-supporters-want-answers/
#1yrsago Revenge of the Linkdumps https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/13/four-bar-linkage/#linkspittle
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Is Amazon Violating the Sherman Act? - ProMarket
Shaoul Sussman (Pro Market)Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/10
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112422007037388908
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Cory Doctorow
2024-05-11 10:34:51
Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/11
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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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup
www.booksoup.comCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/12
https://craphound.com/shop/
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Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/13
* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the
* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15
* 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
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Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics
Authors AllianceCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/14
* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/
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Keynote Speaker - AALL Annual Meeting & Conference
AALL Annual Meeting & ConferenceCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/15
* 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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Suur Futuroloogiline Kongress: Cory Doctorow (Kanada)
YouTubeCory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/16
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Cory Doctorow
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/eof
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the-future-of-ai/0642572001651/
Wednesday (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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Tim O’Reilly and Cory Doctorow on “Enshittification” and the Future of AI
www.oreilly.comRiley Norman
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/eof
I don't like that I can identify the legal maximum and then create a machine to use just a shave under that amount but from everyone, to create the exact effect the law was designed to prevent, art having no lasting value.
For instance, dump my original artwork into an AI and you can create thousands of conceptual duplicates minutes after my publication. What chance does my piece have in such a market?
Cat West
•Ostrzeżenie o treści: Long thread/7
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•Lawsuit Accuses Anna’s Archive of Hacking WorldCat, Stealing 2.2 TB Data
Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)Cory Doctorowudostępnił to.
Pyperkub
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