A good point why we shouldn't rely on #AI, #LLM, and all such bullshit when we strive for accuracy and precision in our work.

#Pluralistic #Doctorow #CrapInCrapOut

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/automation-blindness/#humans-in-the-loop

Could be a bit of wishful thinking, but isn't it something we should all be striving for?

"The new, good internet is an internet where we seize the means of computation. It's an internet operated by and for the people who use it."

Source: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/22/the-new-good-internet/#the-old-good-internet

#OldGoodInternet #NewGoodInternet #TakeThePowerBack #StopEnshittification #Pluralistic #Doctorow

"Enshittification is why the old, good internet died and became 'five giant websites filled with screenshots of the other four' (h/t Tom Eastman)"

@pluralistic on the warpath and a damn fine looking book coming in September: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3035-the-internet-con

#pluralistic #stopenshittification

@eniko

I'm sorry to inform, the US Congress is absolutely captured and are actively selling us out.

The trend in healthcare is Private Equity raiding. PE has spend $1t since 2012. They've been absolutely destructive to "senior care homes". It's trending so much worse.

Fantastic article at Cory Doctorow's #Pluralistic:

>"The Healthcare Private Equity Association boasts that its members are poised to spend more than $3t to create "the future of healthcare."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#

@jda @pluralistic 🤯 😠

> "The Healthcare Private Equity Association boasts that its members are poised to spend more than $3t to create "the future of healthcare."

^^^This is the area that causes most concern for me!

And our representatives are captured by monied interests, so I'm ***very*** skeptical we'll see effective regulation.

Our values are upside down so often.

Thank you so much for sharing.

#Pluralistic #PrivateEquity #Economics #CoryDoctorow

A quote from Brian Eno, as spotted in a piece by Corey Doctorow @pluralistic

‘Be the first person to not do something that no one else has ever thought of not doing before.’’

This resonated - both the idea of it AND the convoluted way it's expressed, which forced me actually to think about it more deeply.

The entire piece is at https://locusmag.com/2023/03/commentary-cory-doctorow-end-to-end/. Highly recommended, along with most everything he writes, both fiction and non.

#coreydoctorow #pluralistic #locus #brianeno

RT @doctorow@twitter.com

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/21/malicious-compliance/

#Pluralistic 1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1605578070282407937

@project1enigma

#MedinatAmerica is a #pluralistic society, so in addition to a half day on Sixth Day for #Jumma and Shabbat prep, and a day off for #Shabbat (naturally), we also give a day off on First Day so our #Christian minority can attend Christian shul for Christian Shabbat… and so EVERYONE has a morning for running errands and extracurriculars, like sports, music, and dance competitions.

#EU to #Facebook, 'Drop Dead' (07 Dec 2022)

#CoryDoctorow at #Pluralistic:[Facebook will doubtless appeal, but the writing is on the wall here: it's the end of the line for surveillance advertising in #Europe]

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/#schrems-revenge

An interesting dichotomy in #politics that I have found is between those who decide policies based on annoyance ve those who decide based in #safety.

If you decide based on safety, yours and others', you will find yourself supporting #pluralistic policies, candidates, and organizations.

If you decide based on annoyance, you will find yourself opposing pluralistic policies, candidates, and organizations.

@jewwhohasitall Went to a Catholic funeral mass. #pluralistic