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Inside: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me in THIS SATURDAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
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Pluralistic: Come see me on tour; How America’s oligarchs lull us with the be-your-own-boss fairy tale (16 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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The specific process by which Google enshittified its search: Ed Zitron has Prabhakar Raghavan bang to rights.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112327507233026010
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Cory Doctorow
2024-04-24 18:02:18
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* It’s the End of the Web as We Know It https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/generative-ai-search-llmo/678154/
* SSL.com is evil and deceptive: Don’t do business with SSL.com https://blog.metabrainz.org/2024/04/23/ssl-com-is-evil-and-deceptive-dont-do-business-with-ssl-com/
* 101 Additional Advices https://kk.org/thetechnium/101-additional-advices/
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It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
Judith Donath (The Atlantic)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago London cop’s Facebook: “Can’t wait to bash” G20 protestors http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8016620.stm
#15yrsago Dangerous terrorists arrested in the UK weren’t http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8011955.stm
#10yrsago Muslims sue FBI: kept on no-fly list because they wouldn’t turn informant https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/suit-claims-muslims-put-on-no-fly-list-for-refusing-to-become-informants/
#10yrsago Lost Warhol originals extracted from decaying Amiga floppies https://web.archive.org/web/20140424093724/https://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/events/warhol-discovery
#10yrsago Making a planetary-scale sandwich https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/23symq/me_located_in_iceland_and_my_friend_located_in/
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Suit claims Muslims put on no-fly list for refusing to become informants
Ars TechnicaCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Drunk 18 year old girl rushed to hospital from Canadian PM Stephen Harper’s residence https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/intoxicated-18-year-old-girl-reportedly-rushed-to-hospital-from-prime-minister-harpers-residence
#5yrsago Nest’s “ease of use” imperative plus poor integration with Google security has turned it into a hacker’s playground https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/24/nests-ease-of-use-imperative-plus-poor-integration-with-google-security-has-turned-it-into-a-hackers-playground/
#1yrago How Goldman Sachs's "tax-loss harvesting" lets the ultra-rich rake in billions tax-free https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/24/tax-loss-harvesting/#mego
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National Post
Postmedia News (National Post)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: "Humans in the loop" must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112319429119495346
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
La Quadrature du Net - Mastodon - Media FédéréCory Doctorow
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My last novel was "The Lost Cause," a solarpunk novel of radical hope in the climate emergency, from Tor Books (US)/Head of Zeus (UK):
http://lost-cause.org
Signed, personalized copies available from Dark Delicacies:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/
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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245
Both are national bestsellers!
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Hardcover) | Book Soup
www.booksoup.comCory Doctorow
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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."
https://craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* The Bezzle at Book Passage (Corte Madera, Marin), Apr 27
https://www.bookpassage.com/event/cory-doctorow-bezzle-martin-hench-novel-corte-madera-store
* Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337
* Wordfest (Calgary), May 3
https://wordfest.com/2024/event/wordfest-presents-cory-doctorow-2/
* Massy Arts (Vancouver), May 4
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/solo-reading-cory-doctorow-the-bezzle-tickets-876989167207
* Tartu Prima Vista Literary Fest, May 5-11
https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/
* “Enshittification” and AI, with @timoreilly (virtual), May 14
https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/tim-oreilly-and-cory-doctorow-on-enshittification-and-the
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Wordfest Presents Cory Doctorow - Wordfest
WordfestCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* "Finding the Money" screening (LA), May 15
https://www.laemmle.com/film/finding-money?date=2024-05-15
* Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (SF), May 17
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/03/15/authors-alliance-10th-anniversary-event-authorship-in-an-age-of-monopoly-and-moral-panics/
* Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9
https://media-ecology.org/convention
* American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21
https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/
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Keynote Speaker - AALL Annual Meeting & Conference
AALL Annual Meeting & ConferenceCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Come sfuggire al “Merdocene” e costruire un Internet migliore (Torino Biennale Tecnologia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5NC2EZCYBg
* Show Me The Money Club (The Rideshare Guy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCETi3XqSds
* NUOVO BARETTO UTOPIA
https://videoteca.kenobit.it/w/azRmQBCenVwjSRz9WCp8JS
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NUOVO BARETTO UTOPIA - Puntata #11 - Ospite: Cory Doctorow
Videoteca di Tele KenobitCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search (24 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel *The Bezzle*! Catch me in THIS SATURDAY (Apr 27) in MARIN COUNTY, Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour
Pluralistic: Come see me on tour; How America’s oligarchs lull us with the be-your-own-boss fairy tale (16 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netHistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Content warning: Long thread/eof
#LongThreads in #Mastodon
Hi Cory, I have a technical question.
"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:"
I imagine you first write the (long) blog and then generate the <500k pieces for the threaded post, correct?
Are you doing this manually or do you have a tool that does the segmentation? If so, which one?
Losing so much time with this.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •Content warning: Long thread/eof
Pluralistic: 13 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netHistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Content warning: Long thread/eof
#Mastodon #composition
"Next I past the whole post into a Mastodon compose field. Working by trial and error, I cut it down to <500 characters, breaking at a para-break and putting the rest on my clipboard. I post, reply, and add the next item in the thread until it's all done."
That's how I still do it, too.
However, IMO there are better ways to do this automatically.
If MS-Excel had bigger (rather unlimited) field lengths, I could program it myself...
HistoPol (#HP)
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#Mastodon #Composition
...I'm pretty sure, using #VisualBasic, it should be possible.
The #footnotes issue I described at the beginning of this thread is probably the most difficult part.
But leaving that point aside, it is simply capturing the length of the whole text, subtracting the length of the #hashtags, the heading, and the subtitle(s), as well as of the credits ("via/by...") from the 500 limit and then cutting the total blog texts in segments.
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CassandraVert
in reply to HistoPol (#HP) • • •Content warning: Long thread/eof
The Fedimeister client app for Mastodon breaks up your blogs into posts automatically.
HistoPol (#HP)
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@CassandraVert
I knew I wasn't the only one thinking of a tech solution. 😀
However, is that app for iPS?--Could not find it in the Google Playstore. Do I need to use F-Droid?
@pluralistic
CassandraVert
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If you search the term Fedimeister, you will find the address. It's a .de address.
I have not seen the developer, @raccoon, around here for a year or so. If you go to that account, you will see a referral to a new account, but all his activity is on this account.
@pluralistic raccoon also has a great thread breaking down the functioning of the AT protocol that may interest you.
HistoPol (#HP)
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@CassandraVert
Thanks a lot, Cassandra.
The URL is in @raccoon's bio👍
https://fedimeister.onyxbits.de/
Alas, the App is a desktop-only (I write mostly on my Smartphone,) but the #Fedimeister app seems to offer what I had been looking for. 😀
@pluralistic
Fedimeister - The Mastodon desktop client for Windows, Linux and MacOS
fedimeister.onyxbits.deHistoPol (#HP)
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Content warning: Long thread/eof
Thanks, Cory.
#offtopic
Excellent idea for all people with a desktop job 👍
"I have a chronic pain problem and I really shouldn't sit on the sofa for more than 10 minutes, so I use a timer and get up every 10 minutes and do one minute of physio."
HistoPol (#HP)
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https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/13/two-decades/#hfbd
Impressive. 👍
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"First and foremost, I do it for me. The memex I've created by thinking about and then describing every interesting thing I've encountered is hugely important for how I understand the world. It's the raw material of every novel, article, story and speech I write.
And I do it for the causes I believe in. There's stuff in this world I want to change...
Pluralistic: 13 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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HistoPol (#HP)
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... for the better. Explaining what I think is wrong, and how it can be improved, is the best way I know for nudging it in a direction I want to see it move."
💯 % 👍 🙏
Kyle Montanio
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •So much comes down to power.
Google has become too big to care and we are all bearing the costs.
"What's behind all the tech companies enshittifying all at once – is that tech worker power has been smashed, especially at Google, where 12,000 workers were fired just months after a $80b stock buyback that would have paid their wages for the next 27 years."
Another great piece, thanks for all you do @pluralistic!
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mattg
in reply to Kyle Montanio • • •the buybacks aren't a google problem, they're a government-enabled tax cheat to move profits from annually taxed dividends to "maybe never taxed" capital gains. If we're not going to close the loophole, we shouldn't be surprised when companies keep using it.
Cory Doctorow
in reply to mattg • • •Pluralistic: Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain; The Bezzle excerpt (Part IV) (21 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netBack Alley InfoSec
in reply to Kyle Montanio • • •Too big to care is the perfect phrase for all the mega corporations we have now.
Vanni Di Ponzano 🚴 ❤️ ☕ 🍎
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"When Page and Brin brought in the war criminal Eric Schmidt to run the company, he surely started every day with a ritual, ferocious tug at that enshittification lever. "