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@doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg…

#Pluralistic

There's 5 days left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my upcoming anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

redteamblues.com

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Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes: Twiddled to death through algorithmic wage discrimination.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1646240976065773571

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

@doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The problem with economic models; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all…

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I'm kickstarting the #audiobook for my next novel, an anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams called *Red Team Blues*. #Amazon's #Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible:

redteamblues.com 2/

The problem with economic models: Ideology disguised as math.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1642942567288389652

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

@doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead;; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pix…

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Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead. Pixsy's predators no longer welcome.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1642212940219572225

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

@doctorow

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Inside: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik…

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We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1641439310137249792

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

@doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/29/hob…

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Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1641091348450234368

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

@doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: What comes after neoliberalism; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/28/ima…

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What comes after neoliberalism? "There is no alternative" is really a demand, namely, "Stop trying to think of an alternative!"

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1640742612775714816

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

@doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules); and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/25/con…

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The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules): Dobbs, SVB, the Internet Archive, antitrust and the law's foundation in norms, not consistency.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1639678791671861249

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

@doctorow

There are no #libertarians in a bank run. No sooner had VCs whipped each other into a terrified Twitter frenzy at the collapse of #SVB - a collapse caused by that frenzy - than the #AynRand-poisoned elites started begging for Uncle Sucker for handouts:

https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1634300928621793283

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:

pluralistic.net/2023/03/23/sma… 2/

Now, on the one hand, it's easy to dismiss these guys as very, very, very stupid. After all, they played a game of #PrisonersDilemma in which they were allowed to talk to each other as much as they wanted - and they still sold each other out:

newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-… 3/

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Steve Herman

@W7VOA

Joint statement from US Treasury Dept, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC.

Reaction: mastodon.social/@mmasnick/1100…

On Monday, “I will deliver remarks on how we will maintain a resilient banking system to protect our historic economic recovery,” says President Biden in a statement. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

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Willi Schroll

@wschroll

#SVB What went wrong?
Interesting thread.

CNBC: I am reading „meltdown“ on the bottom?!
What’s up #SiliconValley?

https://twitter.com/dhinchcliffe/status/1633994187526881280

Tippingpoints? Here is the context: cryptoslate.com/insights/is-sv…

Update. Steep, kind of hockey stick.

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Abhishek

@Abhishe27960014

"Silicon Valley Bank Faces Financial Crisis: Stock Plummets 60%"

What happened? [THREAD🧵]👇

1) What is Silicon Valley Bank?

SVB is a US based bank that focuses on meeting the unique requirements of startup companies in the technology & innovation domain.

#SiliconValley #SVB

2) What is causing the trouble for Silicon Valley Bank?

The main problem is that Bank deposits are shrinking because of 2 reasons:

i) Increased cash burn by clients(Startups)

ii) Drop in venture capital deposits in the bank

Hence, bank is facing the liquidity issue.

3) What has triggered the stock fall of 60%?

The management of SVB revealed their plan to raise $2.25 billion through a stock sale to ensure sufficient liquidity.

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Laurie Garrett

@Laurie_Garrett

Dear Mr. Musk (@elonmusk );
You are destroying @Twitter in countless ways. The most egregious are your calls for Star Chamber prosecution of #TonyFauci . But you have done so much more damage -- enough, that @Tesla is suffering as its stock drops & EV buyers turn elsewhere.
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https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1602099443251175424

2/ Despite the snarky & sometimes cruel comments levied against me @Twitter (including more than one death threat) I have usually found it a terrific platform. It's like a great newspaper: you have a window into everything from pop music to astrophysics, kittens to kinases.
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3/ @Twitter has been a place for all sorts of perspectives -- you never know what comment or video might blow your mind, taking your day on an unexpected tangent. Most Twitterati strived to be smart, funny, maybe snarky -- not pernicious, deliberately false or threatening.
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Maria Sederholm @Wordofbeak on Gab & Gettr too.

@Wordofbeak

#DHSLeaks
"There's a deep involvement of the intelligence agencies... The CEOs of those companies #SiliconValley
signed State Security agreements, which means they cannot talk about their relationships with the agency #CIA #IQT, as a condition for receiving that money."
- RFK Jr.

#DHSLeaks
"You have deep relationships between the IC and the Silicon Valley companies, and a strong interest by those companies in erecting a national security state and a surveillance state, cause they own the technologies of surveillance."
- RFK Jr.

#DHSLeaks
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. expands on Silicon Valley's relationship with the Intelligence Community in the last chapter of his book
'The Real Anthony Fauci: Big Pharma's Global War on Democracy, Humanity, and Public Health'.
'childrenshealthdefense.org/store/the-real…

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Ismaël | Tips Marketing🧑🏻‍💻

@astucedigitale

Les 100 meilleurs #livres marketing de tous les temps. 📚

De la psychologie, copywriting, business, influence, story-telling, finances, au growth hacking, voici les livres à lire absolument pour toute personne intéressée à devenir meilleure en marketing. 🚀

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📚100. Influence : Science & Practice est une examination de la psychologie de la conformité (c'est-à-dire la découverte des facteurs qui poussent une personne à dire "oui" à la demande d'une autre personne).

#influence #psychology #marketing

📚99. Le best-seller du New York Times qui explique pourquoi certains produits et idées deviennent populaires.

#marketing #contentmarketing #newyorktimes #book #livre

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🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋

@DeepBlueCrypto

Ever since Russia Ukraine war broke out, energy prices skyrocketed, energy crisis situation in much of Europe and other western countries.

Europe & California push for green energy narrative has been a disaster.

A meme thread 🧵 4 fun & awareness

Hahaha 🤣

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Agathonia Media

@AgathoniaMedia

#History: "... A combination of rationality, a superior culture and richer public sensibility provided the soil in which #democracy, uniquely, could flourish. But what if that is #nonsense? What if we have the story all wrong?"

jonathancook.substack.com/p/dont-be-fool…

"There are differences between open & closed societies, to be sure. One of the most notable is that, in the west, closed minds are not imposed on the populace, as they have to be in authoritarian regimes. Instead, they are cultivated and nurtured ...

... through #consumption of the establishment #media."

"An interview with Volodymr #Zelenskiy, the hero-president of “democratic” #Ukraine, the leader so beloved of the western establishment #media, is a case in point. He now admits that, throughout Moscow’s build-up ...

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Sachin Kumar🇮🇳

@SachinK02316651

Top free #DataScience resources :

1. CS109 Data Science
cs109.github.io/2015/pages/vid…

2. Data Science Essentials
edx.org/course/data-sc…

3. Learning From Data from California Institute of Technology
work.caltech.edu/telecourse

4. Mathematics for Machine Learning by University of California, Berkeley
gwthomas.github.io/docs/math4ml.p…

5. Foundations of Data Science by Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan
cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book.pdf?f…

6. Python Data Science Handbook
jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScie… #Data #india

7. CS 221 ― Artificial Intelligence
stanford.edu/~shervine/teac…

8. Ten Lectures and Forty-Two Open Problems in the Mathematics of Data Science
ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathem…

9. Python for Data Analysis by Boston University
bu.edu/tech/files/201…

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Stef Ollenburg

@SIOllenburg

Want to thank @Bindestriche for the retweet. Inspired the need to vent my thoughts in this🧵
An article on Peter #Thiel & his vision, to me a sign: we need to reclaim our #future & not let #techgurus take over.
Let’s start to look at our daily routines: fast pace thru … 1/21

https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1532809657575669760

… #digital tools for working, shopping, researching, studying. communicating & more, made possible by mostly #SiliconValley’s tech companies for a “convenient” life. And I wonder if this is really the concept of the #goodlife that I dreamed of in my childhood? …2/21

..& will it be favored by unborn generations? It seems we are letting a certain type of tech vision take over.
Let me try to look behind that future that seems to be favored now:
As I see it the few leading tech companies now are mainly white men in their 30‘s & 40‘s … 3/21

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Raisina Dialogue

@raisinadialogue

We are LIVE tweeting the panel discussion with @Rajeev_GoI, @zapalak, Anne Neuberger, Vivek Lall, @NiNanjira and @KanchanGupta

Stay tuned for updates!

Join us using this link:

#Raisina2022 #RaisinaDialogue

.@KanchanGupta: #BigTech is now playing an interventionist role in democracy, #RedTech is being used for #surveillance and subversion, while #DeepTech is about criminality.

#Raisina2022

Anne Neuberger: In the ongoing #Ukrainewar, #socialmedia companies wanted to control the #information imbalance but that has caused public resentment over the lack of #transparency and access to complete information.

#Raisina2022 @orfgeotech

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BNL Consulting

@bnl_consulting

Happy first day of #BlackHistoryMonth! To celebrate, we'll periodically take time to honor the brilliant Black minds that have contributed to our field over the years. A thread:

First up in our series: @6Gems, who founded @BlackGirlsCode after noticing the severe underrepresentation of minorities in the startup world. Bryant's nonprofit has enabled many young black girls to create meaningful work & go on to become leaders in their communities. #BHM2022

@6Gems @BlackGirlsCode Katherine Johnson was a human computer whose calculations were essential to @NASA's Project Mercury, Apollo 11, and more. When the space program switched to digital computers, Johnson helped confirm the accuracy of their calculations.

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