Why I don't like AI art: I think I've figured it out.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-25 22:24:44

A law professor friend tells me that LLMs have completely transformed the way she relates to grad students and post-docs - for the worse. And no, it's not that they're cheating on their homework or using LLMs to write briefs full of hallucinated cases.

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Pluralistic: Why I don’t like AI art (25 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* Spammers are more consistent at making SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correct than are legitimate senders toad.social/@grumpybozo/114213…

* The Turd Reich mcusercontent.com/bd36014b9888… (h/t Crystaltips)

* Merchant of Menace: Trump and the Jews prospect.org/politics/2025-03-…

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

2025-03-23 20:20:44

The stats we collect for the #SpamAssassin project (mass-scan results from participating sites) have long shown that spammers are more consistent at making SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correct than are legitimate senders. DMARC in particular has no discernible benefit for most senders, so it is a useless signal.

Rejecting mail based solely on authentication failures of those deeply flawed authentication methods does more harm than good.

#15yrsago Secret copyright treaty will sideline the UN and replace it with private club of rich countries michaelgeist.ca/2010/03/acta-s…

#15yrsago Discarded photocopier hard drives stuffed full of corporate secrets web.archive.org/web/2010032219…

#10yrsago If Indiana legalizes homophobic discrimination, Gen Con’s leaving Indianapolis files.gencon.com/Gen_Con_State…

#10yrsago Sandwars: the mafias whose illegal sand mines make whole islands vanish wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand…

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#10yrsago Woman medicated in a psychiatric ward until she said Obama didn’t follow her on Twitter independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

#10yrsago As crypto wars begin, FBI silently removes sensible advice to encrypt your devices techdirt.com/2015/03/26/fbi-qu…

#10yrsago Australia outlaws warrant canaries arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#10yrsago TPP leak: states give companies the right to repeal nations’ laws eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/its-…

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#5yrsago Social distancing and other diseases pluralistic.net/2020/03/26/bad…

#5yrsago Record wind-power growth pluralistic.net/2020/03/26/bad…

#5yrsago Sanders on GOP stimulus cruelty pluralistic.net/2020/03/26/bad…

#5yrsago Canada nationalizes covid patents pluralistic.net/2020/03/26/bad…

#5yrsago LoC plugs Little Brother pluralistic.net/2020/03/26/bad…

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#5yrsago The ideology of economics pluralistic.net/2020/03/26/bad…

#1yrago Meatspace twiddling pluralistic.net/2024/03/26/gli…

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Yesterday's threads: Trump loves Big Tech; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-24 16:13:51

The sight of the CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Tiktok arranged in a decorative semicircle behind Trump on the dais on inauguration day was the final repudiation of the Obama-era notion that tech was somehow committed to democracy (or the Democrats).

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Pluralistic: Trump loves Big Tech (24 Mar 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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Signed copies available from Book Soup:

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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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Upcoming appearances:

* #Chicago: Picks and Shovels with Peter Sagal, Apr 2
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* #Chicago: ABA Techshow, Apr 3
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* #Bloomington: Picks and Shovels at Morgenstern, Apr 4
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Pittsburgh: Picks and Shovels at White Whale Books, May 15
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* #Pittsburgh: PyCon, May 16
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* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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* #PDX: Picks and Shovels at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* Capitalists Hate Capitalism (MMT Podcast)
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* How to Destroy Our Tech Overlords (Homeless Romantic)
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* The internet that could have been was ruined by billionaires (Real News Network)
therealnews.com/the-internet-t…

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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on Apr 2:

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And in #BLOOMINGTON on Apr 4:

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More tour dates here:

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