posixgnulinux , 5 months ago

@pluralistic

What the HAL, you answered my question I did not even asked you:
for a while now I was wondering, who does the illustrations on pluralistic.net.
I found them quite artful.

Btw: just today I saw this talk on short feedback loops in creation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

Gimp&Co. need some enhancements (at least for the scripting) I guess. ;-)

pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

This is the final edition of Pluralistic for 2023! See you in early January!

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

A year in illustration, 2023 edition: I amuse myself, at least.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111618780352947793

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

Hey look at this

• Who Is Killing All These Stories About a Controversial Tech Mogul? https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-killing-all-these-stories-about-rajat-khare-controversial-tech-mogul (h/t JWZ)

• SPECIAL REPORT-How an Indian startup hacked the world https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/special-report-how-an-indian-startup-hacked-the-world

• VIV Games Saves the World https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/viv-games/viv-games-saves-the-world (h/t Karl Schroeder)

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#10yrsago Celebrate the crossword’s centenary with @eff 's #NSA-themed crossword puzzle https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/crossword-what-did-we-learn-about-nsa-year

#10yrsago Politwoops! Which US politicians deleted the largest number of social media posts in 2013? https://sunlightfoundation.com/2013/12/20/politwoops-2013-the-years-top-politicians-and-their-best-deletions-from-twitter/

#10yrsago US Department of Defense’s public domain archive to be privatized, locked up for ten years https://www.techdirt.com/2013/12/23/defense-department-privatizes-giant-public-domain-media-archive/

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#10yrsago Jaunty, Xmassy #steampunk assemblage clock sculpture https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/21/jaunty-xmassy-steampunk-assemblage-clock-sculpture/

#10yrsago Royal Society appoints a #Wikipedian-in-Residence https://wikimedia.org.uk/2013/12/royal-society-appoints-wikimedian-in-residence/

#10yrsago Prisoner on literary censorship in #GuantanamoBay https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2013/12/why-russell-brand-banned-gitmo

#5yrsago Syracuse cops falsely accuse man of rectal dope-stashing and take him to hospital for nonconsensual anal probe; now he must pay $4600 for the procedure https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2018/12/syracuse-cops-push-st-joes-to-probe-mans-rectum-for-drugs-what-country-are-we-living-in.html

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#5yrsago #BryanAdams to Canadian parliament: extending the term of copyright enriches labels and other intermediaries, not artists https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/12/bryan-adamscopyrightwarning/

#5yrsago Facing unpaid overtime, cuts and austerity, French cops threaten to join #GiletsJaunes protesters https://www.newsweek.com/france-protests-police-strike-gilets-jaunes-yellow-vests-pay-overtime-1264961

#5yrsago Congressional Democratic establishment wants to replace “#GreenNewDeal” with a climate committee of oil money recipients https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kathy-castor-climate_n_5c1c0843e4b08aaf7a869cfd

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

#1yrago How Apple could open its #AppStore without really opening its App Store https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/21/malicious-compliance/#dma

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

Yesterday's threads: 2024's public domain is a banger; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111614959288606611

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

My latest novel is "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):

http://lost-cause.org

Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:

https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/

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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 OP , 5 months 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 OP , 5 months ago

Upcoming appearances:

• Internet Con (Peculiar Book Club), Jan 11
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5UvzuJ1R4I

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

Recent appearances:

• Enshittification: A Monopoly Story (Macro n Cheese)
  https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-255-enshittification-a-monopoly-story-with-cory-doctorow

• Science Fiction and the Future of Science
  https://council.science/podcast/science-fiction/

• AI needs to work with humans — not replace us (#CBC IDEAS)
  https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/artificial-intelligence-provocation-ideas-festival-1.7046841

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18+ pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

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dianeduane , 5 months ago

@pluralistic Have a good holiday time! :)

pluralistic OP , 5 months ago

@dianeduane Thanks, Diane!