America and "national capitalism": How the EU should respond to Trumpism.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-02-18 17:36:14

Thomas Piketty's 2013 unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) *Capital in the 21st Century*, offers a very convincing explanation of our political decay, and it continues to serve this purpose as the decay undergoes alarming acceleration:

memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24…

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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:

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Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX

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Hey look at this

* The Generative AI Con wheresyoured.at/longcon/

* The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S26…

* Psst.org psst.org (h/t Dr Cheezie)

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#20yrsago Broadcast Flag court date: Feb 22 web.archive.org/web/2005021911…

#20yrsago Municipal WiFi: What if the question was, “Should governments be in the electricity business?” wifinetnews.com/archives/2005/…

#15yrsago Anonymous Iranian dissidents launch online comic about Iranian current events web.archive.org/web/2010022108…

#15yrsago VIP prison treatment for rich Indonesians convicted of bribery csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacif…

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#15yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson chapbook: how history works explained in fiction and essay memex.craphound.com/2010/02/18…

#10yrsago Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution leaders haunted by dirty-trick harassment campaigns csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacif…

#10yrsago Telegraph’s lead political writer resigns because of censorship of criticism of advertisers, especially HSBC opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc…

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Yesterday's threads: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-02-17 16:05:30

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/cal…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers’ personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My last nationally bestselling novel was "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench.

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Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

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My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

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Both are national bestsellers!

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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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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."

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