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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

crow

@crow@irlqt.me replied · 3 months ago

@pluralistic@mamot.fr
> By not hanging together, the rich let us hang them separately.

delicious

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 3 months ago

Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller Red Team Blues and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 3 months ago

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 3 months ago

PeachMcD

@PeachMcD@union.place replied · 3 months ago

@pluralistic

The #LLM Mentalist article is excellent! Reminded me of another great article I read a while ago about how #QAnon was using game theory to induce fervent belief in the accuracy of predictions.

I've seen a few articles already about the tragic consequences for vulnerable psyches who believed a Chatbot 'really understood them'

https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 3 months ago

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 3 months ago

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 3 months ago

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