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Pluralistic: 07 Jun 2021
Today's links
Podcasting "I Quit": My essay on smoking cessation, doubt, denial, and the worst corporations on Earth.
New York to revolutionize antitrust: "Consumer Welfare" is bad for your welfare.
New York to revolutionize voting: The SAFE Act and PAVE Act ride again!
Competition tames ISPs: How living on the wrong side of the street can cost you thousands of dollars.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 7, 2021Categories UncategorizedTags antitrust, ballot marking devices, big cable, big tobacco, cancer denial, consumer welfare, corruption, denial, denialism, disinformation, infosec, late-stage capitalism, laws, market definition, medium, monopolism, new york, podcasts, sb309a, SB933, SMART elections, smoking, spoken word, stop the cap, telecoms policy, trustbusting, verified voting, voting, voting machines, worldnotobaccoday20211 Comment on Pluralistic: 07 Jun 2021
I quit
Peak indifference, big tobacco, disinformation and death
I smoked from the age of 13 to the age of 33. I loved smoking. I loved having something to do with my hands. I loved making friends by cadging — or sharing — cigarettes. I loved learning Zippo tricks, finding beautiful old cigarette cases at flea markets, learning to roll a cigarette, then learning how to do it one-handed. I loved the excuse to take breaks from my work.
But I hated smoking. I knew it would kill me. I watched it kill people I loved. They died hard. Gradually, the quixotic pride I felt in the lengths we smokers went to in order to engage in our increasingly disfavored habit turned to horror.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 3, 2021September 21, 2023Categories MediumTags climate, denial, impunity, late-stage capitalism, smoking
Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 28 Feb 2020
Today's links
Clearview AI's customer database leaks: Sic semper grifter.
The Internet of Anal Things: Recreating Stelarc's "Amplified Body" with an IoT butt-plug.
Oakland's vintage Space Burger/Giant Burger building needs a home! Adopt a googie today.
Fan-made reproduction of the Tower of Terror: Even has a deepfaked Serling.
Drawing the Simpsons with pure CSS: Impractical, but so impressive.
Let's Encrypt issues its billionth cert: 89% of the web is now encrypted.
AI Dungeon Master: A work in progress, for sure.
How to lie with (coronavirus) maps: Lies, damned lies, and epidemiological data-visualizations.
This day in history: 2019, 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on February 28, 2020March 6, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags architecture, art, attack surface, biometrics, butt stuff, cartography, centaurs, clearview, clearview ai, coronavirus, crypto wars, css, d&d, dataviz, deepfakes, disney, eff, epidemiology, facial recognition, fanac, geography, googies, grifters, infographics, infosec, internet of shit, iot, leaks, little brother, machine learning, mark klein, midcentury, ml, oakland, rpgs, scholarship, simpsons, smoking, snowden, stelarc, tower of terror, twilight zone, web theoryLeave a comment on Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 28 Feb 2020
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