Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/
#Pluralistic
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Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/
#Pluralistic
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#5yrsago The glass is half-full (of bile over Facebook’s business-model) https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/17/18186045/facebook-pew-research-ad-targeting-consumers-quitting
#5yrsago Privatized energy utilities are burning down their states, but antitrust can make them stop https://www.wired.com/story/to-prevent-wildfires-treat-utilities-like-railroad-barons/
#5yrsago Trump’s #FCC chairman won’t do anything about your cellular company selling your location to bountyhunters because #shutdown https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/ajit-pai-gives-carriers-free-pass-on-privacy-violations-during-fcc-shutdown/
#5yrsago Shutdowns don’t get bad linearly; they get bad exponentially https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/the-shutdown-s-bad-buckle-up-because-it-could-get-much-worse
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#5yrsago Tory voters: are you happy with your purchase? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae5t1CZFCU8
#5yrsago Largest dump in history: 2.7 billion records; 773 million of them unique; 140 million never seen before https://www.wired.com/story/collection-one-breach-email-accounts-passwords/"
#1yrago 1,000,000 stranded #Southwest passengers deserved better from #PeteButtigieg https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/16/for-petes-sake/#unfair-and-deceptive
#1yrago Normalize Dark Corners! https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/15/normalize-dark-corners/
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Yesterday’s threads: Sympathy for the spammer; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111761024502416095
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Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech (#CrashCourseEconomics)
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Books & Books (#CoralGables, #Florida), Jan 22
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Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (#Berlin), Jan 29
https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024
The Lost Cause at Otherland (#Berlin), Jan 30
https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html
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Recent appearances:
The Lost Cause (The Writer’s Voice)
https://www.writersvoice.net/2024/01/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause/
What the Future will Bring (#HomelessRomantic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Vq8qW2A8I
Talking “The Lost Cause” with Warren Mosler (#MMTPodcast)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-182-cory-95211955
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