cdoctorow

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by cdoctorow 11mo ago
This is specifically what I've written on the subject (I quote this in the book): https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/#this-toi... > The fact that a neologism is sometimes decouple
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by cdoctorow 1y ago
Yup.
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by cdoctorow 1y ago
For clarity, I stole "felony contempt of business-model" from Jay Freeman of the Cydia project.
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by cdoctorow 1y ago
I did a whole design fiction project to answer this question: https://www.eff.org/interoperablefacebook
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by cdoctorow 1y ago
It's not incorrect to use this word colloquially. See this post: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/#this-toi... Specifically: > The fact that a neologism is sometimes decoupled f
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by cdoctorow 1y ago
See: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/14/pearl-clutching/#this-toi... > Second: the fact that a neologism is sometimes decoupled from its theoretical underpinnings and is used colloquially is a feature
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by cdoctorow 2y ago
(proof of life: https://x.com/doctorow/status/1804638204286656974 )
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by cdoctorow 2y ago
Yup.
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by cdoctorow 2y ago
> Enshittification names the problem and proposes a solution. It's not just a way to say 'things are getting worse' (though of course, it's fine with me if you want to use it that way. It's an English word. We do
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by cdoctorow 2y ago
Here's the thing: > Misinformation about COVID being the most prescient and recent example for most people probably, propaganda from all sides that continues radicalization and polarization, and also tons of harassment campaigns arr
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by cdoctorow 4y ago
I literally came out of retirement to rejoin EFF and fight DRM at the W3C. I managed to get the W3C membership to reject DRM twice , only to be overruled by the executive (the W3C's constitution allows for the director to treat votes
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by cdoctorow 4y ago
> a broken link and weird marketing language that's clearly not coming from Doctorow, it's like that Metal Gear 2 ending when the Colonel starts to speak in gibberish This was the alt text for one of the images, which I accide
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by cdoctorow 4y ago
I find that bizarre. It's just a mailman instance. Did the bot send you a confirmation email? Did you try emailing me instead? A few times over the 15-ish years that I ran the list, Mailman has failed to honor unsub requests, and in ea
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by cdoctorow 4y ago
Exciting!
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by cdoctorow 4y ago
He really is a terrific writer. And Adam is tremendous; I just binge-listened to so much of the Factually back-catalog!
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by cdoctorow 4y ago
Thank you - even I don't always agree with me.
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by cdoctorow 4y ago
It's not entirely a coincidence that Tim and I sound alike on this subject! We grew up together at the same hippie alternative school in Toronto and then both came under the influence of Larry Lessig in our adult lives. Tim and I got a
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by cdoctorow 5y ago
https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-diffe...
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by cdoctorow 5y ago
All of my Twitter threads also appear as blog posts: Here's this one: https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#cornucopi... It's also available as a Mastodon thread: https:/&#x2
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by cdoctorow 5y ago
All of my Twitter threads also appear as blog posts: Here's this one: https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#cornucopi... It's also available as a Mastodon thread: https:/&#x2
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by cdoctorow 5y ago
It was me - my browser lost its cookie! BTW, it looks like at least one version of the installer included a binary, though the creator says that's not true anymore, so you were (partially) right and I was (partially) wrong.
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by cdoctorow 5y ago
This is simply untrue. The .NET file that Adobe served a DMCA512 notice on doesn't contain any of Adobe's copyrighted code. It's an unpacker and installer that users run on the software they download separately from Adobe&#x2
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by cdoctorow 6y ago
All my stuff is mirrored on Twitter, Tumblr, Mastodon, my newsletter and my blog; the easiest way to find old posts in the blog: pluralistic.net
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by cdoctorow 7y ago
Thank you!
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by cdoctorow 7y ago
Thanks, that's awfully kind of you. The third Little Brother book, Attack Surface, is out on Oct 12. We're recording the audiobook this week (fully remote - I'm in my garage, the director is in her house, and the actor, Amber
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by cdoctorow 9y ago
I'm sorry if it felt like I was running away! That is, indeed, my standard joke when someone who seems to be a fully grown adult tells me they've been reading me since childhood, since in my own timesense, my entire published life
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by cdoctorow 9y ago
Hey there. I certainly don't recall this exchange, and it sounds rather out of character for me. I have consulted for Disney on and off for a decade and was the inaugural artist in residence for the Blue Sky and R&D groups at WDI.