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7 chapters in - damn if doesn't read @pluralistic 's like he is Marty Hench. This story has me looking for corners to hide in and keep listening!

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@onmywalk @pluralistic So, where do I find this audiobook? Wait - here it is: https://craphound.com/shop/

I had this on my wishlist on Amazon and did not realize I could have Wil Wheaton read it to me!

I'm in.

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Inside: Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/

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A science-fiction pulp illustration of a man with a swollen, bald head that has been cut away to reveal its contents. The man's face has been cropped at the bridge of his nose, leaving just the swollen, hollow head, cheekbones, and staring eyes, the last of which have been covered with blue ovals. The hollow head has been filled with the trudging figures from Van Gogh's 'The Prisoners,' marching over a grid of vacuum tubes from an early computer. The background of the image is the wiring from an early mainframe, snarled and dense.
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    JUST HOURS REMAIN in the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    JUST HOURS REMAIN in the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything forever, and wow, it's pretty amazing, huh?

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    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:

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    A science-fiction pulp illustration of a man with a swollen, bald head that has been cut away to reveal its contents. The man's face has been cropped at the bridge of his nose, leaving just the swollen, hollow head, cheekbones, and staring eyes, the last of which have been covered with blue ovals. The hollow head has been filled with the trudging figures from Van Gogh's 'The Prisoners,' marching over a grid of vacuum tubes from an early computer. The background of the image is the wiring from an early mainframe, snarled and dense.
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    JUST HOURS ARE LEFT in the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Inside: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/

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    An animation built around an image of dark, menacing storm clouds. Peeking through the clouds is a 386 motherboard, which slowly crossfades to a Code Waterfall effect from the credit sequence of the Wachowskis' 'The Matrix.' The animation crossfades back and forth in an endless loop. Image: Drahtlos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motherboard_Intel_386.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- cdessums (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monsoon_Season_Flagstaff_AZ_clouds_storm.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

    pluralistic OP ,
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    It's the LAST DAY for the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    It's the LAST DAY for the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Last night, I gave the annual lecture at the festival in . The event was sold out and while there's a video that'll be posted soon, they couldn't get a streaming setup installed in the Canadian embassy, where the talk was held:

    https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024

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    An animation built around an image of dark, menacing storm clouds. Peeking through the clouds is a 386 motherboard, which slowly crossfades to a Code Waterfall effect from the credit sequence of the Wachowskis' 'The Matrix.' The animation crossfades back and forth in an endless loop. Image: Drahtlos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motherboard_Intel_386.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- cdessums (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monsoon_Season_Flagstaff_AZ_clouds_storm.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    It's the LAST DAY for the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Today's threads (a thread)

    Inside: I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/

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    pluralistic OP ,
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    There are just TWO DAYS left in the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    There are just TWO DAYS left in the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    On Hallowe'en 1974, Ronald Clark O'Bryan murdered his son with poisoned candy. He needed the insurance money, and he knew that Halloween poisonings were rampant, so he figured he'd get away with it. He was wrong:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    There are just TWO DAYS left in the Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Today's threads (a thread)

    Inside: Solar is a market for (financial) lemons; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/27/here-comes-the-sun-king/

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    pluralistic OP ,
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    This is the last week for my Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Berliners: @otherlandberlin has added a second date (Jan 28) (TOMORROW!) for my book-talk after the first one sold out - book now!

    https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/zusaetzlicher-autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html?day=20240128&times=1706466600,1706466600

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    This are the final days for my Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Rooftop solar is the future, but it's also a scam. It didn't have to be, but the US decided the best way to roll out distributed, resilient, renewable energy was to let Wall Street run the show. They turned it into a scam, and now it's in terrible trouble. which means we're in terrible trouble.

    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:

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    These are the final days for my Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/26/noclar-war/

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    pluralistic OP ,
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    This is the last week for my Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    This is the last week for my Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    One of the weirdest aspect of is the collapse of , the lynchpin of investing. Auditors - independent professionals who sign off on a company's finances - are the only way that investors can be sure they're not handing their money over to failing businesses run by crooks.

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    It's the last week for my @Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audio/ebook, DRM free, and hardcovers. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook/audio/paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    It's the last week for my @Kickstarter for the audiobook for *The Bezzle*, sequel to *Red Team Blues*, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audio/ebook, DRM free, and hardcovers. There's also bundles with *Red Team Blues* in ebook/audio/paperback: http://thebezzle.org
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    Inside: Tabs give me superpowers; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/25/today-in-tabs/

    #Pluralistic

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    Berliners: @otherlandberlin has added a second date (Jan 28) for my book-talk after the first one sold out - book now!

    https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/zusaetzlicher-autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html?day=20240128&times=1706466600,1706466600

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    I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    This is the last week for my Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    is in pretty bad odor these days, and with good reason: a once-useful catch-all for describing how to make things easier has become a pit of , grifter hustling, and anodyne advice wreathed in superlatives and transformed into SEO-compliant listicles.

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    This is the last week for my Kickstarter for the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Inside: How lock-in hurts design; Hey look at this; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/24/everything-not-mandatory/

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    A photo of a 'desire path' - a path worn through the turf in a park where people have left the paved path and worn away the grass. The image crossfades so that the grassy lawn of the park is replaced by a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Belem (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desire_path_%2819811581366%29.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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    Berliners: @otherlandberlin has added a second date (Jan 28) for my book-talk after the first one sold out - book now!

    https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/zusaetzlicher-autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html?day=20240128&times=1706466600,1706466600

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    I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    If you've ever read about design, you've probably encountered the idea of #PavingTheDesirePath. A #DesirePath is an erosion path created by people departing from the official walkway and taking their own route. The story goes that smart campus planners don't fight the desire paths laid down by students; they pave them, formalizing the route that their constituents have voted for with their feet.

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    A photo of a 'desire path' - a path worn through the turf in a park where people have left the paved path and worn away the grass. The image crossfades so that the grassy lawn of the park is replaced by a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Belem (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desire_path_%2819811581366%29.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

    18+ pluralistic OP ,
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    I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    Inside: Dave Maass and Patrick Lay's "Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis"; and more!

    Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/23/peter-kien-viktor-ullmann/

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    Berliners: @otherlandberlin has added a second date (Jan 28) for my book-talk after the first one sold out - book now!

    https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/zusaetzlicher-autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html?day=20240128&times=1706466600,1706466600

    --

    I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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    I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by ! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:

    http://thebezzle.org

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