Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). THIS IS MY LAST TWITTER THREAD. FOLLOW ME ON MASTODON @pluralistic.mamot.fr AND BLUESKY @doctorow.pluralistic.net Inside: Blowtorching the frog; and more! Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/

Blowtorching the frog: If I must have enemies, let them be impatient ones. 2/

Hey look at this * mctuscan heaven * What's a Panama? * The AI Bubble Is An Information War * The Ticketmaster Monopoly Trial Starts * HyperCard Changed Everything (h/t Kottke) 3/

#20yrsago Waxy threatened with a lawsuit by Bill Cosby over “House of Cosbys” vids #15yrsago Proposed TX law would criminalize TSA screening procedures #15yrsago Rodney King: 20 years of citizen photojournalism #15yrsago Mobile “bandwidth hogs” are just ahead of the curve #15yrsago Peter Watts blogs from near-death experience with flesh-eating bacteria #15yrsago How a HarperCollins library book looks after 26 checkouts (pretty good!) #15yrsago Banksy bails out Russian graffiti artists #15yrsago TSA wants hand-luggage fee to pay for extra screening due to checked luggage fees #15yrsago US house prices fall to 1890s levels (where they usually are) #10yrsago Whuffie would be a terrible currency #10yrsago Ditch your overpriced Sodastream canisters in favor of refillable CO2 tanks #10yrsago Why the First Amendment means that the FBI can’t force Apple to write and sign code #10yrsago Apple vs FBI: The privacy disaster is inevitable, but we can prevent the catastrophe #10yrsago The 2010 election was the most important one in American history #10yrsago As Apple fights the FBI tooth and nail, Amazon drops Kindle encryption #10yrsago Understanding American authoritarianism #10yrsago Proposal: replace Algebra II and Calculus with “Statistics for Citizenship” #10yrsago Panorama: the largest photo ever made of NYC #1yrago Ideas Lying Around #1yrago There Were Always Enshittifiers 4/

Tuesday's threads: Supreme Court saves artists from AI; and more! 5/

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Upcoming appearances: * San Francisco: Launch for Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights), Mar 10 * Barcelona: Enshittification with Simona Levi/Xnet (Llibreria Finestres), Mar 20 * Berkeley: Bioneers keynote, Mar 27 * Montreal: Bronfman Lecture (McGill) Apr 10 * London: Resisting Big Tech Empires (LSBU) * Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20 * Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19 * Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25 9/

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