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20 years on, #BushVGore is back in our discourse - an election stolen by mobs at the polling places, a media blitz, and a Supreme Court at its most antidemocratic and antimajoritarian.
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If Amy Barrett is confirmed, Donald Trump alone will have appointed the same number of SCOTUS judges in 3-and-a-half years as Democratic presidents have appointed in the last 26 years.
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) October 13, 2020
So please -- stop being afraid to talk about court expansion. https://t.co/dZU97YhFWg
https://t.co/NDMbH30hlv
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More from Cory Doctorow #BLM
There are lots of problems with ad-tech:
* being spied on all the time means that the people of the 21st century are less able to be their authentic selves;
* any data that is collected and retained will eventually breach, creating untold harms;
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* data-collection enables for discriminatory business practices ("digital redlining");
* the huge, tangled hairball of adtech companies siphons lots (maybe even most) of the money that should go creators and media orgs; and
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* anti-adblock demands browsers and devices that thwart their owners' wishes, a capability that can be exploited for even more nefarious purposes;
That's all terrible, but it's also IRONIC, since it appears that, in addition to everything else, ad-tech is a fraud, a bezzle.
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Bezzle was John Kenneth Galbraith's term for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it." That is, a rotten log that has yet to be turned over.
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Bezzles unwind slowly, then all at once. We've had some important peeks under ad-tech's rotten log, and they're increasing in both intensity and velocity. If you follow @Chronotope, you've had a front-row seat to the
* being spied on all the time means that the people of the 21st century are less able to be their authentic selves;
* any data that is collected and retained will eventually breach, creating untold harms;
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* data-collection enables for discriminatory business practices ("digital redlining");
* the huge, tangled hairball of adtech companies siphons lots (maybe even most) of the money that should go creators and media orgs; and
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* anti-adblock demands browsers and devices that thwart their owners' wishes, a capability that can be exploited for even more nefarious purposes;
That's all terrible, but it's also IRONIC, since it appears that, in addition to everything else, ad-tech is a fraud, a bezzle.
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Bezzle was John Kenneth Galbraith's term for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it." That is, a rotten log that has yet to be turned over.
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Bezzles unwind slowly, then all at once. We've had some important peeks under ad-tech's rotten log, and they're increasing in both intensity and velocity. If you follow @Chronotope, you've had a front-row seat to the
The numbers are all fking fake, the metrics are bullshit, the agencies responsible for enforcing good practices are knowing bullshiters enforcing and profiting off all the fake numbers and none of the models make sense at scale of actual human users. https://t.co/sfmdrxGBNJ pic.twitter.com/thvicDEL29
— Aram Zucker-Scharff (@Chronotope) December 26, 2018
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity; Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity; Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/1rRmrJa4FK
#Pluralistic
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Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity: A thoughtful analysis.
https://t.co/2T74ykb3Ws
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Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity: I thought about it some more.
https://t.co/mTQ225Lr3X
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Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets: Even if there's no angels, there's still a path to glory.
https://t.co/x7BaqUQ0hj
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#10yrsago Morrow’s Diviner’s Tale is a tight, literary ghost story https://t.co/XFW0AGFwhI
#10yrsago ATM skimmer that doesn’t require any modifications to the ATM
Inside: Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity; Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity; Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/1rRmrJa4FK
#Pluralistic
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Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity: A thoughtful analysis.
https://t.co/2T74ykb3Ws
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— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 29, 2021
Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity: I thought about it some more.
https://t.co/mTQ225Lr3X
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— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 29, 2021
Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets: Even if there's no angels, there's still a path to glory.
https://t.co/x7BaqUQ0hj
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A couple days back, I wrote up my best understanding of what happened with /r/wallstreetbets and meme stocks like Gamestop, trying to show how all the different, seemingly contradictory takes on the underlying financial stuff could all be true.https://t.co/xWzre4r0Yj
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 30, 2021
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#10yrsago Morrow’s Diviner’s Tale is a tight, literary ghost story https://t.co/XFW0AGFwhI
#10yrsago ATM skimmer that doesn’t require any modifications to the ATM
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).
Inside: Privacy Without Monopoly; Broad Band; $50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/QgK8ZMRKp7
#Pluralistic
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This weekend, I'm participating in Boskone 58, Boston's annual sf convention.
https://t.co/2LfFssVcZQ
Tonight, on a panel called "Tech Innovation? Does Silicon Valley Have A Mind-Control Ray, Or a Monopoly?" at 530PM Pacific.
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Privacy Without Monopoly: A new EFF white paper, co-authored with Bennett Cyphers.
https://t.co/TVzDXt6bz6
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Broad Band: Claire L Evans's magesterial history of women in computing.
https://t.co/Lwrej6zVYd
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$50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%: The hereditary meritocracy is in crisis.
https://t.co/TquaxOmPi8
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Inside: Privacy Without Monopoly; Broad Band; $50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/QgK8ZMRKp7
#Pluralistic
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This weekend, I'm participating in Boskone 58, Boston's annual sf convention.
https://t.co/2LfFssVcZQ
Tonight, on a panel called "Tech Innovation? Does Silicon Valley Have A Mind-Control Ray, Or a Monopoly?" at 530PM Pacific.
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Privacy Without Monopoly: A new EFF white paper, co-authored with Bennett Cyphers.
https://t.co/TVzDXt6bz6
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Today, @EFF published "Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability," a major new paper by Bennett Cyphers and me. https://t.co/Ma2FE2vZ9u
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 13, 2021
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Broad Band: Claire L Evans's magesterial history of women in computing.
https://t.co/Lwrej6zVYd
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One of the most Monkey's Paw things about my life is my relationship to books. When I was a teenager, I read all the way through the school and public libraries, spent everything I had on books, and still couldn't get enough and dreamt of more.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 13, 2021
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$50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%: The hereditary meritocracy is in crisis.
https://t.co/TquaxOmPi8
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Inequality requires narrative stabilizers. When you have too little and someone else has more than they can possibly use, simple logic dictates that you should take what they have.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 13, 2021
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@SidneyPowell1 reflects on #Iran’s meddling in the U.S. in a recent tweet to U.S. President Donald Trump.
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All Americans should be informed about how Iran & its lobby group NIAC are meddling in the
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#Iran has been increasingly aiming to interfere in U.S. elections specifically through NIAC.
DNI John Ratcliffe had previously shed light on this vital
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@SidneyPowell1 reflects on #Iran’s meddling in the U.S. in a recent tweet to U.S. President Donald Trump.
This thread focuses on Iran’s dangerous influence in the U.S., especially through its DC-based lobby group
Dear @realDonaldTrump
— Sidney Powell \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 (@SidneyPowell1) December 23, 2020
#China and #Iran stole this election from the #American people
who voted for you in a world-record landslide!
We must expose all the corruption and restore the Republic now
There will never be a free and fair election if we don\u2019t end the rigging now \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 pic.twitter.com/2t707xN0ar
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Why is this important?
@DNI_Ratcliffe "told CBS News that there was foreign election interference by China, #Iran & Russia in November of this year [2020]."
All Americans should be informed about how Iran & its lobby group NIAC are meddling in the
3)
#Iran has been increasingly aiming to interfere in U.S. elections specifically through NIAC.
DNI John Ratcliffe had previously shed light on this vital
4)
NIAC is a lobby group in the U.S. pushing Iran’s talking points.
Listen to this Iranian regime insider explain that NIAC was established by @JZarif, the foreign minister of
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@tparsi is the official founder of NIAC in the U.S.
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2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less. https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n
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(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)
4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.
For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3
5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)
