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Inside: AI is a WMD; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/09/shitting-in-the-well/

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    • dl2jml ,
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    @pluralistic "The entire internet is shaped by Google's decisions about what shows up on that first page of listings. "
    Not the ENTIRE Internet. As an example, Mastodon is not. ;)

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    pluralistic OP ,
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    I'm in Tartu, Estonia!

    TOMORROW (May 10): 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
    Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

    TOMORROW (May 10): A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
    University of Tartu Delta Centre (Narva 18, room 1037)

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    AI is a WMD: Advon is a force-multiplier for enshittification.

    https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112410315322827303

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    • 18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Hey look at this

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    Japan jails academic for writing P2P app https://web.archive.org/web/20040512194433/http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,4390,250207,00.html</a.

    Blogger redesign notes https://stopdesign.com/journal/2004/05/09/blogger.html

    TheyRule: applying information design to corporate directorships https://theyrule.net

    Don’t just protect the unconceived: protect the inanimate! https://fafblog.blogspot.com/2004_05_02_fafblog_archive.html#108411098508640046

    Brit MP saw undercover cops egging crowd to riot at G20 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/10/g20-policing-agent-provacateurs

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Elsevier has an entire division dedicated to publishing fake advertorial “peer-reviewed” journals https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/05/09/1514235/more-fake-journals-from-elsevier

    New York Times webteam nukes the careers of many journalists https://web.archive.org/web/20090511024122/http://www.thomascrampton.com/newspapers/reporter-to-ny-times-publisher-you-erased-my-career/

    It’s Useful to Have a Duck/It’s Useful to Have a Boy: great board-book tells the story from two points of view https://memex.craphound.com/2009/05/08/its-useful-to-have-a-duck-its-useful-to-have-a-boy-great-board-book-tells-the-story-from-two-points-of-view/

    Fast food workers around the world to strike on May 15 http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/7/fast-food-workersuniteactivistsannounceglobalprotest.html

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    Former NSA boss defends breaking computer security (in the name of national security) https://www.wired.com/2014/05/alexander-defends-use-of-zero-days/

    Tor: network security for domestic abuse survivors https://web.archive.org/web/20140509221534/http://betaboston.com/news/2014/05/07/as-domestic-abuse-goes-digital-shelters-turn-to-counter-surveillance-with-tor/

    The Oversight: conspiracies, magic, and the end of the world https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/08/the-oversight-conspiracies-magic-and-the-end-of-the-world/

    @cstross on NSA network sabotage https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/05/the-snowden-leaks-a-meta-narra.html

    Peter "brokep" Sunde launches campaign for Finnish Pirate Party MEP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fModmx3U8HI

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Against the instrumental argument for surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/may/09/cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance

    Congressmen ask ad companies to pretend SOPA is law, violate antitrust https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/pols-ad-networks-pretend-we-passed-sopa-and-never-mind-about-antitrust

    Japanese man arrested for 3D printing and firing guns https://kotaku.com/japanese-man-arrested-for-having-guns-made-with-a-3d-pr-1573358490

    Americans with diabetes are forming caravans to buy Canadian insulin at 90% off https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/americans-diabetes-cross-canada-border-insulin-1.5125988

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Big Tech is deleting evidence needed to prosecute war crimes, and governments want them to do more of it https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/facebook-algorithms-are-making-it-harder/588931/

    Buried in Uber’s IPO, an aggressive plan to destroy all public transit https://48hills.org/2019/05/ubers-plans-include-attacking-public-transit/

    Test your understanding of evolutionary psychology with this rigorous quiz https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/05/evolutionary-psychology-quiz

    Why “collapse” (not “rot”) is the way to think about software problems https://hal.science/hal-02117588/document

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    Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/china-how-mass-surveillance-works-xinjiang

    Google will now delete your account activity on a rolling basis https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols/webandapp?view=item&amp;otzr=1&amp;pli=1

    Charter’s new way to be terrible: no more prorated cancellations https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/charter-squeezes-more-money-out-of-internet-users-with-new-cancellation-policy/

    KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/09/dingo-babysitter/#maybe-the-dingos-ate-your-nan

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    California to smash prison e-profiteers https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/08/captive-audience/#good-at-their-jobs

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    Tuesday's threads: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal "user agents"; and more!

    https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112398686215012120

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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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:

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    Both are national bestsellers!

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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."

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    Today's top sources: Jon Christian (https://futurism.com/).

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    I'm in Tartu, Estonia!

    TOMORROW (May 10), 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights"
    Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)

    TOMORROW (May 10), 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation
    (University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)

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