@doctorow Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK posts on X about in the, business, art, books the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social Influence

Social category influence finance 12.11% technology brands 8.39% countries 5.28% social networks 3.73% celebrities 3.42% stocks 2.8% travel destinations 1.86% automotive brands 1.55% cryptocurrencies 0.93% currencies 0.93%

Social topic influence in the 4.04%, business 3.11%, art 3.11%, books 3.11%, palantir #576, company #3703, twitter #1033, health 1.86%, if you 1.86%, the most 1.86%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @jgrossund @gryphus @stustin @gorsecurse @sts_news @dilgreen @lincoln_cog @itsmedanielfc @snowordeath @dhegertz @firehorsemia @fsgbooks @torbooks @hozbooks @versobooks @beaconpressbks @ll_finestres @onemargaretx @raemiea @0lschok

Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"Trump's antitrust boss Gail Slater talked a big game about "Trump Antitrust" but was thwarted at every turn by giant corporations who figured out that if they gave a million bucks to a MAGA podcaster they could go over Slater's head and kill her enforcement actions. 9/"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:49Z 453.5K followers, [----] engagements

"#20yrsago Universal DRM dystopia #20yrsago Librarys one-year anniversary of lending video-games #20yrsago UK music industry execs cant talk straight about DRM #20yrsago BBC report on UK gamers from 6-65 #20yrsago Norwegian ombudsman to review iTunes terms of service #20yrsago Google Cache is legal #20yrsago NSAs licensable patent portfolio #20yrsago Senators figure out the Broadcast Flag curse it as an abomination #20yrsago HOWTO turn a disposable camera into an RFID-killer #20yrsago World of Warcraft: Dont tell anyone youre queer #20yrsago Can DRM be future-proof #20yrsago Danny OBriens Open"
X Link 2026-01-26T15:52Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"#10yrsago Shootout in Oregon: one terrorist killed eight arrested #10yrsago Health insurer loses 1m customers health records #10yrsago All your booze comes from a handful of titanic global corporations #10yrsago Man gasps dying words into officers bodycam: Theyre killing me right now I cant breathe. #10yrsago Help wanted: Burning Mans Chief Fed #10yrsago Guess who donated all the money to Black Americans for a Better Future Super PAC Rich white men. #10yrsago Bill Gates sold rights to the Tiananmen [----] pictures to a Chinese company #10yrsago Michael Moore: Flint needs a revolution not"
X Link 2026-01-26T15:52Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Fact of the day: the Ford Edsel ("a 1950s flop so notorious that its taught in business schools to this day") outsold the Cybertruck 2:1 "in a country with half the population"): (h/t Luke Savage in the American Prospect https://prospect.org/2026/01/30/teslas-wile-e-coyote-moment-is-here/ https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/ford-introduces-edsel https://prospect.org/2026/01/30/teslas-wile-e-coyote-moment-is-here/ https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/ford-introduces-edsel"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:44Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The Macon Daily Telegraph Georgia August [--] [----] https://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/post/807380274318098432/the-macon-daily-telegraph-georgia-august-27 https://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/post/807380274318098432/the-macon-daily-telegraph-georgia-august-27"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:53Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Olivetti ETP [--] // electric typewriter (Italy 1987) https://www.tumblr.com/vizreef/807428009180233728/olivetti-etp-55-electric-typewriter-italy https://www.tumblr.com/vizreef/807428009180233728/olivetti-etp-55-electric-typewriter-italy"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:20Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The GodNet (1991) https://www.tumblr.com/vintagerpg/807412400110338048/you-loved-torg-week-last-year-so-heres-some-more https://www.tumblr.com/vintagerpg/807412400110338048/you-loved-torg-week-last-year-so-heres-some-more"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:20Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Living in a system where you're fleeced every day but where people who seem smarter than you have reasonable explanations for why it's legit is a recipe for abandoning the system experts and lawful processes and throw in with a strongman who promises to cheat for you. 19/"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:58Z 453.2K followers, [---] engagements

"I mean that literally: say a company that's sitting on a billion dollars cash is valued at $10 billion. 25/"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:58Z 453.3K followers, [---] engagements

"From this we can infer that the company's capital stock (factories inventory etc) IP (patents processes copyrights etc) and human capital (payrolled employees contractors) are worth $9 billion. 26/"
X Link 2026-02-02T15:58Z 453.3K followers, [---] engagements

"I used to think that this was the whole stock buyback story but as is ever the case with finance buybacks are fractally corrupt. 44/"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:01Z 453.2K followers, [---] engagements

"This week I've been reading Boston College law prof Ray D Madoff's book The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy and I've learned even more scummy truths about buybacks: 45/ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo256019296.html https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo256019296.html"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:01Z 453.3K followers, [---] engagements

"For tax purposes dividends are "ordinary income" meaning that they are taxed at up to 37%. Meanwhile if you sell your shares after a stock buyback juices the price the profits are treated as "capital gains" whose tax rate caps out at about half that (20%). 46/"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:01Z 453.3K followers, [---] engagements

"The ripoff economy is baked into the American experience. It is the foundation of Trumpism. It is the financial basis for things like "Project 2025" - literally 61/"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:04Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"The Heritage Foundation was founded and funded by the founders of Amway a destructive Ponzi scheme that was rescued from criminal prosecution when Ford (Congressman to Amway's founders) became president and ordered the FTC to let them off the hook: 62/ https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/free-enterprise-system/#amway-or-the-highway https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/free-enterprise-system/#amway-or-the-highway"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:04Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Take stock buybacks a form of stock swindle that was illegal until [----]. In a stock buyback a company buys its own shares on the open market. When the number of shares goes down the price per share goes up. This is just a form of wash-trading like when NFT and shitcoin scammers buy their own products in order to make it look like theyre valuable and desirable: There are plenty of American historical antecedents of Trumpism - fascist movements like the Jim Crow reign of terror the McCarthy hearings the gleeful genocide of indigenous people. 1/ https://t.co/vhTbH4wzT2 There are plenty of"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:24Z 453.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Star Trek Tricorder [----]. https://humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/807631302072369152 https://humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/807631302072369152"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:04Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Halfway through Thomas Piketty's [----] Capital in the 21st Century he tosses off an insight that skewered me and never let me go: the notion that a societal condition that endures beyond a generation becomes "eternal" in popular consciousness: 1/ https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24/thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-21st-century/ https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24/thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-21st-century/"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:42Z 453.2K followers, 29K engagements

"Some years ago I gave a speech at Consumer Reports headquarters in Poughkeepsie trying to get them to refuse to give a passing grade to any product with DRM. 39/"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:46Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"This was on the grounds that the manufacturer could alter how that device worked at any time in the future meaning that no matter how well a device worked now it might turn into a pile of shit at any time in the future: 40/ https://www.soundguys.com/the-sonos-app-death-spiral-132873/ https://www.soundguys.com/the-sonos-app-death-spiral-132873/"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:47Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Things change. The nine-justice Supreme Court isn't an eternal verity. It didn't come down off a mountain on two stone tablets. It's about ten seconds old: Tomorrow it will be different: 45/ https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/20/judicial-equilibria/#pack-the-court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_Act_of_1869 https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/20/judicial-equilibria/#pack-the-court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_Act_of_1869"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:48Z 453.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Our eternals are all ephemerals. The idea that we should tax capital gains at half the rate of wages It was practically invented yesterday. You know who thought we should tax all income at the same rate That noted Bolshevik Ronald fuckin' Reagan: 46/ https://archive.thinkprogress.org/flashback-reagan-raised-capital-gains-taxes-to-the-same-level-as-wage-taxes-for-first-time-444438edf242/ https://archive.thinkprogress.org/flashback-reagan-raised-capital-gains-taxes-to-the-same-level-as-wage-taxes-for-first-time-444438edf242/"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:48Z 453.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Southwest sucks today because of just one guy: Paul Singer the billionaire owner of Elliott Investment Management who bought a stake in SWA and used it to force the board to end open seating and free bag-check. 45/"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:01Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Then he sold off his stake and disappeared into the sunset millions richer leaving behind a pile of shit where a beloved airline once flew: 46/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2024/10/24/southwest-airlines-bends-to-activist-investor-restructures-board/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2024/10/24/southwest-airlines-bends-to-activist-investor-restructures-board/"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:01Z 453.3K followers, [---] engagements

"People sometimes joke about how Americans couldn't pass the US citizenship test with its questions about the tortured syntax of the 10th Amendment and the different branches of government. 50/"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:02Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Maserati Merak SS (1975) https://coolvintagecars.tumblr.com/post/807811222068232192/maserati-merak-ss-1975 https://coolvintagecars.tumblr.com/post/807811222068232192/maserati-merak-ss-1975"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:58Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Caroline Shawk Brooks (18401913) also known as The Butter Woman or the Centennial Butter Sculptress was famous for her sculptures fashioned entirely out of. yes butter. More here: https://publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/807823036364505088/caroline-shawk-brooks-18401913-also-known-as https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-butter-sculptures-of-caroline-s-brooks https://publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/807823036364505088/caroline-shawk-brooks-18401913-also-known-as https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-butter-sculptures-of-caroline-s-brooks"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:26Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/807826797529006080 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/807826797529006080"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:53Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/807826660104830977 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/807826660104830977"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:53Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/807826653818535936 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/807826653818535936"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:53Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Dungeon of Death Exclusive Software UK [----] https://www.tumblr.com/retrocgads/807554798921646080/dungeon-of-death-exclusive-software-uk-1990 https://www.tumblr.com/retrocgads/807554798921646080/dungeon-of-death-exclusive-software-uk-1990"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Catherine Schell - Moon Zero Two (1969) https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807839346665357312/moon-zero-two-1969-4 https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807839346665357312/moon-zero-two-1969-4"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Olivia Newton-John (1981) https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807840653236125696/olivia-newton-john-1981 https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807840653236125696/olivia-newton-john-1981"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"1Robert Weston Smith better known as "Wolfman Jack" (1938-1995) was an American radio DJ famous for his gravelly voice. He said "It's kept meat and potatoes on the table for years for Wolfman and Wolfwoman. A couple of shots of whiskey helps it. I've got that nice raspy sound." He appeared in TV and movies including as himself in George Lucas's second feature film "American Graffiti." via https://www.tumblr.com/mitchipedia/807849991955726336/robert-weston-smith-better-known-as-wolfman https://www.tumblr.com/mitchipedia/807849991955726336/robert-weston-smith-better-known-as-wolfman"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Lois Chiles as Dr. Holly Goodhead and Roger Moore as James Bond - Moonraker (1979) https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807852645254610944/lois-chiles-as-dr-holly-goodhead-and-roger https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807852645254610944/lois-chiles-as-dr-holly-goodhead-and-roger"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"UFO art circa 1973-77 by Bruce Pennington https://www.tumblr.com/retroscifiart/805217396290945024/ufo-art-circa-1973-77-by-bruce-pennington https://www.tumblr.com/retroscifiart/805217396290945024/ufo-art-circa-1973-77-by-bruce-pennington"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Robin Williams and Pam Dawber - Mork & Mindy (1979) https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807855425466826752/robin-williams-and-pam-dawber-mork-mindy https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807855425466826752/robin-williams-and-pam-dawber-mork-mindy"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Extension of Daniel-Pppelmann-Haus (1973-75) in Herford Germany by Dieter Oesterlen. Photo by Kurt Hlscher. https://www.tumblr.com/germanpostwarmodern/807828858233602048/extension-of-daniel-pppelmann-haus-1973-75-in https://www.tumblr.com/germanpostwarmodern/807828858233602048/extension-of-daniel-pppelmann-haus-1973-75-in"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"This whaling suit from Greenland crafted sometime before [----] reflects the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the Inuit people. Designed for the harsh Arctic environment it allowed hunters to remain dry and insulated while navigating icy waters during dangerous sea hunts. Every element of the suit was carefully considered for practicality and protection ensuring the wearer could focus on hunting without succumbing to hypothermia. https://www.tumblr.com/vintageeveryday/806097935198797824/this-whaling-suit-from-greenland-crafted-sometime"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"The World's News NSW June [--] [----] https://www.tumblr.com/yesterdaysprint/807833259390238720/the-worlds-news-nsw-june-13-1942 https://www.tumblr.com/yesterdaysprint/807833259390238720/the-worlds-news-nsw-june-13-1942"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Pudet = Face Palm. From John Bulwer's Chirologia or The Naturall Language of the Hand (1644) the English physician's attempt to record the vocabulary contained in hand gestures and bodily motions. More here: https://www.tumblr.com/publicdomainreview/807834197170487296/pudet-face-palm-from-john-bulwers https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chirologia-or-the-natural-language-of-the-hand-1644 https://www.tumblr.com/publicdomainreview/807834197170487296/pudet-face-palm-from-john-bulwers https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chirologia-or-the-natural-language-of-the-hand-1644"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:53Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Fight me: The bit in the live performance of Naive Melody where Byrne sings "Love me till my heart stops" and the whole band stops for a couple beats of silence is the most inspired arrangement gimmick in musical history"
X Link 2026-02-07T06:23Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"@dhegertz No it's the David Byrne live version (American Utopia Who is the Sky other recent tours)"
X Link 2026-02-07T06:40Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Aimster was one of the services the record industry tried to shut down both by filing suit against the company and by flooding it with takedown notices demanding that individual tracks be removed. Deep responded by "encoding" the track names on his network in pig-Latin. 15/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:28Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Then he claimed that by "decoding" the files (by moving the last letter of the track name to the first position) the record industry was "bypassing an effective access control for a copyrighted work" and thus violating DMCA 1201: 16/ https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/storyid=108454&page=1 https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/storyid=108454&page=1"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:28Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Surely the fact that someone figured out how to circumvent your access control is proof that it's not effective (at least when it comes to that person). 19/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:28Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"All this may strike you as weird inside baseball and that's not entirely wrong but there's one unresolved "effectiveness" question that has some very high stakes indeed: is Youtube's javascript-based obfuscation an "effective access control" 20/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:28Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"They're not Willy Wonka's idea factory - they're Rich Uncle Pennybags buying up other kids' toys: Google operationalized Youtube and built it up to the world's most structurally important video platform. 24/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/google-ai-chatbots-microsoft-bing-chatgpt/673052/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/google-ai-chatbots-microsoft-bing-chatgpt/673052/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:28Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Along the way Google added some javascript that was intended to block people from "downloading" its videos. I put "downloading" in scare-quotes because "streaming" is a consensus hallucination. 25/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:29Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"There's no way for your computer to display a video residing on a distant server without downloading it - the internet isn't made up of a cunning series of paper-towel rolls and mirrors that convey photons to your screen without sending you the bits that make up the file. 26/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:30Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

""Streaming" is just "downloading" with the "save file" button removed. In this case the "save file" button is removed by some javascript on Youtube pages. 27/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:30Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"These videos are allowed under copyright law. American copyright law has a broad set of limitation and exceptions which include "fair use" an expansive set of affirmative rights to access and use copyrighted works even against the wishes of the copyright's proprietor. 34/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:31Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"As the Supreme Court stated in Eldred the only way copyright (a government restriction saying some words) can be reconciled with the 1st Amendment (a ban on government speech limits) is fair use copyright's "escape valve" for free expression: 35/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:33Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"This means that the subjects of video essays can't rely on copyright to silence their critics. They also can't use the fact that those critics violated Youtube's terms of service by clipping their videos. 40/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:34Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Only Youtube has standing to ask a court to uphold its terms of service and Youtube has (wisely) steered clear of embroiling itself in fights between critics and the people they criticize. 41/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:34Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"One of the plaintiff's claims here is that the defendant violated Section [----] of the DMCA by saving videos from Youtube. 43/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:35Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"They argue that Youtube's javascript obfuscator (a "rolling cipher") is an "effective access control" under the statute. Magistrate Judge Virginia K DeMarchi (Northern District of California) agreed with the plaintiff: 44/ https://torrentfreak.com/images/Cordova-v.-Huneault-25-cv-04685-VKD-Order-on-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf https://torrentfreak.com/images/Cordova-v.-Huneault-25-cv-04685-VKD-Order-on-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:35Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"It is a blanket prohibition on the circumvention of any "effective access control" for any copyrighted work even when no one's rights are being violated. It's a way to transform otherwise lawful conduct into a felony. 46/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:35Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"It's what Jay Freeman calls "Felony contempt of business model." If the higher court upholds this magistrate judge's ruling then all clipping becomes a crime and the subjects of criticism will have a ready tool to silence any critic. 47/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:35Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"It has indeed granted an exemption for ripping video for critical and educational purposes. But this process is deceptive The exemptions that the Copyright Office grants are "use exemptions" - they allow you to "make the use." 49/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:36Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: End of the line for video essays; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:43Z 453.1K followers, 18.3K engagements

"End of the line for video essays: America's worst copyright law keeps getting even worse. 2/ https://x.com/doctorow/status/2020052099133026484 What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines 1/ https://t.co/UYH7KRT865 https://x.com/doctorow/status/2020052099133026484 What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony harnessing the power of the state to threaten"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:43Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Hey look at this * [--] Reasons This Is the Worst Crypto Winter Ever (h/t Slashdot) * The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Lets Start Treating It That Way. (h/t Jamie Boyle) * Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something Real Bad (h/t Boing Boing) * Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue * Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis (h/t JWZ) 3/ https://eletric-vehicles.com/waymo/waymo-exec-admits-remote-operators-in-philippines-help-guide-us-robotaxis/ https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-is-losing-audiences-to-ai-fatigue/"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:43Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"#25yrsago Bellsouth phases out pay-phones #20yrsago Man who shattered museum vases asked not to come back #20yrsago Dozens of Web [---] companies logos #20yrsago Did Nvidia hire an army of message-board sock-puppets #15yrsago Sarah Palin Circle-R wants a trademark on her name #10yrsago Love Picking: Locksport meets love locks #10yrsago Superb investigative report on the fake locksmith scam #5yrsago Klobuchar wants to bust her some fuckin' trusts 4/ https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/06/calera/#fuck-bork"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:43Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Deep responded by encoding all of the track names on his network in pig-Latin. Then he claimed that by decoding the files (by moving the last letter of the track name to the first position) the record industry was bypassing an effective access control for a copyrighted work and thus violating DMCA 1201: What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines 1/ https://t.co/UYH7KRT865 What if there was a way for"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:33Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The Nightmare (1781) thought to be a symbolic depiction of sleep paralysis one of the best known works by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli born #onthisday in [----]. https://publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/807894761501491200/the-nightmare-1781-thought-to-be-a-symbolic https://publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/807894761501491200/the-nightmare-1781-thought-to-be-a-symbolic"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:21Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Solidarity with Comrade Bill"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:19Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Monsters on the Prowl #13 - Cover art by Marie Severin and Frank Giacoia (1971) https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/807908996252106752/monsters-on-the-prowl-n13-marvel-1971-marie https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/807908996252106752/monsters-on-the-prowl-n13-marvel-1971-marie"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:48Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Dr. Deadly Monster Scene - Aurora Model Kits (1971) https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807907471141289984/model-kits-monsters-aurora-models-monster-scenes https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/807907471141289984/model-kits-monsters-aurora-models-monster-scenes"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:48Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Batman Vanilla Shake and Chocolate Flavored Milk - All Star Dairy (1966) https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/807910155880660992/batman-vanilla-shake-and-chocolate-flavored-milk https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/807910155880660992/batman-vanilla-shake-and-chocolate-flavored-milk"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:02Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"The Pittsburgh Courier Pennsylvania March [--] [----] https://www.tumblr.com/yesterdaysprint/807944804176625664/the-pittsburgh-courier-pennsylvania-march-19 https://www.tumblr.com/yesterdaysprint/807944804176625664/the-pittsburgh-courier-pennsylvania-march-19"
X Link 2026-02-08T07:41Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"The kennel keeper of the fire giant king is a larger than average fire giant who fights alongside a pack of the largest size hell hounds. (David Sutherland AD&D module G1-2-3: Against the Giants TSR 1981; reprinted from the [----] Hall of the Fire Giant King) This is a classic Sutherland party-vs-monster scene. The magic-user in the upper left seems to be levitating or flying in order to cast spells over the rest of the party while the one in the background is learning why he shouldn't be in the front line."
X Link 2026-02-08T07:41Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Millie the Model #78 - Cover art by Dan DeCarlo (1957) https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/807998954726916096/millie-the-model-n78-atlas-marvel-1957-dan-de https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/807998954726916096/millie-the-model-n78-atlas-marvel-1957-dan-de"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:27Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"High level clerical spells can manipulate time space and the boundaries between planes. (Carol Heyer AD&D 2e Tome of Magic TSR 1991) https://oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/807997464411045888/high-level-clerical-spells-can-manipulate-time https://oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/807997464411045888/high-level-clerical-spells-can-manipulate-time"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:27Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"https://mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/807997004068356096 https://mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/807997004068356096"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:27Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"https://dogwelder.tumblr.com/post/808007999230722048/early-vaping-was-crazy https://dogwelder.tumblr.com/post/808007999230722048/early-vaping-was-crazy"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:44Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Metropolis (1927) https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/808016352561496064/metropolis-universum-ufa-1927-brigitte-helm-as https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/808016352561496064/metropolis-universum-ufa-1927-brigitte-helm-as"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:17Z 453.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Frankenstein - art by Bernie Wrightson (1977) https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/808017605422137344/frankenstein-art-by-bernie-wrightson-1977 https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/808017605422137344/frankenstein-art-by-bernie-wrightson-1977"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:18Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Honda Acty Van SDX [----]. Honda Acty Van SDX [----]. For the third generation in response to legislation that addressed safety requirements Honda pushed the driving position back. The new generation retained the mid-engined rear-wheel-drive layout although it was now of a "semi-bonneted" design. It was equipped with a 656cc E07Z 3-cylinder engine. The Acty Street was discontinued in favour of the Honda Vamos. https://www.tumblr.com/carsthatnevermadeitetc/808019114742497280/honda-acty-van-sdx-1999-honda-acty-van-sdx"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:18Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"The Vampire and Other Ghosts (1972) https://www.tumblr.com/vintagerpg/808046605957824512/the-vampire-and-other-ghosts-1972-is-part-of-a https://www.tumblr.com/vintagerpg/808046605957824512/the-vampire-and-other-ghosts-1972-is-part-of-a"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:18Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"The Object of that incomprehensible Being which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection. One of the [--] stunning illustrative plates to feature in Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750): https://www.tumblr.com/publicdomainreview/808015506850316288/the-object-of-that-incomprehensible-being-which https://www.tumblr.com/publicdomainreview/808015506850316288/the-object-of-that-incomprehensible-being-which"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:18Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Mercury the Train of Tomorrow (1936-1959) https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/808012573851222016/mercury-train-1 https://www.tumblr.com/atomic-chronoscaph/808012573851222016/mercury-train-1"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:18Z 453.1K followers, [--] engagements

"GDP isn't really a measure of the health of "The Economy" - it's a measure of the parts of "The Economy" that make rich people (that is the Epstein class) better off. But what if there was a way to make money from calamitous collapses in GDP 6/"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:30Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"What if the wealthy didn't just win when "number go up" but also when "number eat shit" The latest Epstein batch includes a ghoulish exchange between Epstein and his business partner the anti-democracy activist and billionaire Peter Thiel: 7/ https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00824843.pdf https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00824843.pdf"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:30Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The email is dated [--] Jun [----] right after Brexit and in it Epstein writes: return to tribalism . counter to globalization. amazing new alliances. you and I both agreed zero interest rates were too high as i said in your office. 8/"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:30Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"It's been the norm since the crash of [----] when bankers were made whole through public bailouts and mortgage holders were evicted by the millions to "foam the runway" for the banks: 10/ https://wallstreetonparade.com/2012/08/how-treasury-secretary-geithner-foamed-the-runways-with-childrens-shattered-lives/ https://wallstreetonparade.com/2012/08/how-treasury-secretary-geithner-foamed-the-runways-with-childrens-shattered-lives/"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:30Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Note that economic collapse helps the Epstein class only if society has no social safety net. If Obama had supported homeowners instead of banks there wouldn't have been a foreclosure crisis and thus there wouldn't have been any "distressed assets" flooding the market. 13/"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:30Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"So it's no surprise that the Epstein class are also obsessed with austerity. Peter Mandelson (British Labour's "Prince of Darkness") is a close ally of Epstein's and also a key figure in the crushing austerity agenda of Blair Brown and Starmer. 14/"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:30Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Peter Mandelson is a machine for turning Parliamentary majorities into distressed assets at scale. 15/"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:30Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Same for Steve Bannon another close Epstein ally who boasts about his alliances with far-right figures who exalt the capital class and call for deregulation and the elimination of public services: Le Pen Salvini Farage. 16/"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:30Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The thousand-plus children that Epstein lured to his island rape-camp were often "distressed assets" in their own right. 26/"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:30Z 453.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Julie K Brown's groundbreaking reporting on Epstein for the Miami Herald described how he sought out children whose parents were poor or neglectful or both on the grounds that those children would be "on their way to collapse" too. 27/"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:31Z 453.4K followers, 52.1K engagements

"Hey look at this * RIP Dave Farber * Outlier and collapse: The enron corpus and foundation model training data * You're Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype * How Big Cloud becomes Bigger: Scrutinizing Google Microsoft and Amazon's investments * Go Left Young Writers 3/ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/new-masses-proletarian-literature-wright-gold/ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfmabstract_id=5377426 https://peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517261421474"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:43Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"#25yrsago Yours is a very bad hotel #20yrsago Kids refuse to sell candy after completing health unit #20yrsago Disneyland model recreates Yippie invasion of [----] #20yrsago Canadian Red Cross wastes its money harassing video game makers #20yrsago How Yahoo/AOLs email tax will hurt free speech #20yrsago Adbusters and the Economist have the same covers #20yrsago Head of British Vid Assoc: Piracy doesnt hurt DVD sales #20yrsago Countries around the world rebelling against extreme copyright #20yrsago Web [---] logo-mosaic #15yrsago Is it legal to print Settlers of Catan tiles on a 3D printer"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:43Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Saturday's threads: End of the line for video essays; and more 5/ https://x.com/doctorow/status/2020055789721780363 Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: End of the line for video essays; and more Archived at: https://t.co/nsKkRHQeko #Pluralistic 1/ https://t.co/zgm8mS8oJx https://x.com/doctorow/status/2020055789721780363 Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: End of the line for video essays; and more Archived at:"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:43Z 453.1K followers, [---] engagements

"My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels" a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC about Ponzi schemes techbros and the dawn of enshittification: 6/ https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:43Z 453.2K followers, [---] engagements

"Nancy Gardens Vampires (1973) https://vintagerpg.tumblr.com/post/808137201634476032/nancy-gardens-vampires-1973-is-part-of https://vintagerpg.tumblr.com/post/808137201634476032/nancy-gardens-vampires-1973-is-part-of"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:35Z 453.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Vintage Dinosaur Books 40s-90s https://mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/808108950846324736 https://mckitterick.tumblr.com/post/808108950846324736"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:36Z 453.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Many horrors lurk in the deep dungeons of Undermountain far below the Yawning Portal tavern including illithids beholders and whatever that big stompy thing is in back (Karl Waller Undermountain Adventures by Ed Greenwood from The Ruins of Undermountain box set TSR 1991) https://oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/808103168874627072/many-horrors-lurk-in-the-deep-dungeons-of https://oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/808103168874627072/many-horrors-lurk-in-the-deep-dungeons-of"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:36Z 453.3K followers, [----] engagements

"https://www.tumblr.com/grooveland/807318033407344640 https://www.tumblr.com/grooveland/807318033407344640"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:36Z 453.3K followers, [----] engagements

"@firehorsemia @trashfuturepod @travis_view Pretty sure Travis has been on TF And I've been on QAA"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:46Z 453.3K followers, [---] engagements

"House Albrecht (1956) in Vlaardingen the Netherlands by Herman Haan. Photo by Gerrit Burg. https://www.tumblr.com/germanpostwarmodern/188101474166/house-albrecht-1956-in-vlaardingen-the https://www.tumblr.com/germanpostwarmodern/188101474166/house-albrecht-1956-in-vlaardingen-the"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:46Z 453.3K followers, [----] engagements

"But what would "rising to the moment" look like What can the opposition party do without majorities in either house 3/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:03Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Well they could start by refusing to continue to fund ICE a masked thug snatch/murder squad that roams our streets killing with impunity: 4/ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-sprawling-spending-package-democrats-split-ice-funding-rcna255273 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-sprawling-spending-package-democrats-split-ice-funding-rcna255273"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:04Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The Nuremberg Caucus could vow to repurpose ICE's $75b budget to pursue Trump's crimes from corruption to civil rights violations to labor violations to environmental violations. 14/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:04Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"It could announce its intent to fully fund the FTC and DoJ Antitrust Division to undertake scrutiny of all mergers approved under Trump. 15/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:04Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"It could put corporations on notice that they should expect lengthy probing inquiries into any mergers they undertake between now and the fall of Trumpism. 16/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:04Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Who knows perhaps some shareholders will demand that management hold off on mergers in anticipation of this lookback scrutiny and if not perhaps they will sue executives after the FTC and DoJ go to work. 17/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:04Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The Nuremberg Caucus could publish a plan to hire thousands of IRS agents (paid for by taxing billionaires and zeroing out ICE's budget) who will focus exclusively on the ultra-wealthy and especially any supernormal wealth gains coinciding with the second Trump presidency. 18/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:04Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Money talks. ICE agents are signing up with the promise of $50k hiring bonuses and $60k in student debt cancellation. That's peanuts. 19/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:04Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"This is certainly true: confidence in a "peaceful transfer of power" is the bedrock of any kind of fair election. But this bunch have already repeatedly signaled that they intend to steal the midterms and the next general election: 22/ https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/02/top-senate-republican-rejects-trumps-shocking-election-plan-i-think-thats-a-constitutional-issue.html https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/02/top-senate-republican-rejects-trumps-shocking-election-plan-i-think-thats-a-constitutional-issue.html"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:04Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"ICE agents are straight up telling people that ICE is on the streets to arrest people in Democratic-leaning states ("The more people that you lose in Minnesota you then lose a voting right to stay blue"): 23/ https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/federal-agent-in-coon-rapids-the-more-people-that-you-lose-in-minnesota-you-then-lose-a-voting-right-to-stay-blue/ https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/federal-agent-in-coon-rapids-the-more-people-that-you-lose-in-minnesota-you-then-lose-a-voting-right-to-stay-blue/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:04Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The Nuremberg Caucus: What do Democrats have to lose 2/ https://x.com/doctorow/status/2021208521484742680 America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total failure to rise to the moment: https://t.co/Z60y7tVIY0 1/ https://t.co/YiecTvMJVQ https://x.com/doctorow/status/2021208521484742680 America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total failure to rise to the moment: https://t.co/Z60y7tVIY0 1/ https://t.co/YiecTvMJVQ"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:15Z 453.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Hey look at this * Prescription: Social Media * ENIAC Day Celebration * Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty * The Children of Dilley * Martin Shkreli Had a Point 3/ https://lpeproject.org/blog/martin-shkreli-had-a-point/ https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children https://www.youtube.com/watchv=k7_GTts4XTY&t=114s https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat/ https://www.helicoptermuseum.org/event-details/eniac-day-celebration https://www.youtube.com/watchv=k7_GTts4XTY&t=114s"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:15Z 453.3K followers, [---] engagements

"#20yrsago Ray Bradbury: LA needs monorails #20yrsago How statistics caught Indonesias war-criminals #20yrsago Canadian Red Cross vows to sue first aid kits too #20yrsago Sports announcer traded for Walt Disneys first character #15yrago Government transparency doesnt matter without accountability #10yrsago Hackers stole [------] taxpayers logins/passwords from the IRS #10yrsago CIA boss flips out when Ron Wyden reminds him that CIA spied on the Senate #10yrsago Ta-Nehisi Coates will vote for Bernie Sanders reparations or no reparations #10yrsago Gmail will warn you when your correspondents use"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:15Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Economism is the result of a specific form of neurological injury whose comorbidity is an irresistible urge to be a patronizing asshole. Unfortunately a lot of people have decided they should opine on big picture macroeconomic concepts without bothering to learn anything about them. Unfortunately a lot of people have decided they should opine on big picture macroeconomic concepts without bothering to learn anything about them"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:13Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Dems could announce their intent to fully fund the FTC and DoJ Antitrust Division to undertake scrutiny of all mergers approved under Trump and put corporations on notice that they should expect lengthy probing inquiries into any mergers they undertake between now and the fall of Trumpism. America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total failure to rise to the moment: https://t.co/Z60y7tVIY0 1/ https://t.co/YiecTvMJVQ America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats'"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:49Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The Nuremberg Caucus could publish a plan to hire thousands of IRS agents (paid for by taxing billionaires and zeroing out ICEs budget) who will focus exclusively on the ultra-wealthy and especially any supernormal wealth gains coinciding with the second Trump presidency. America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total failure to rise to the moment: https://t.co/Z60y7tVIY0 1/ https://t.co/YiecTvMJVQ America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total failure to"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:55Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The Nuremberg Caucus could announce a Crimestoppers-style program with $1m bounties for any ICE officer who a) is themselves innocent of any human rights violations and; b) provides evidence leading to the conviction of another ICE officer for committing human rights violations. America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total failure to rise to the moment: https://t.co/Z60y7tVIY0 1/ https://t.co/YiecTvMJVQ America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:26Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Anyone have contact with Microsoft network ops They've blackholed my SMTP (204.11.50.134) (which is used by me and half a dozen other people none of whom send spam) and my admin's on vacation and I don't wanna screw up his time off. This is obviously a false positive though"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:55Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"From James Sowerbys British Mineralogy (18021817). Despite his scientific leanings Sowerby was first and foremost an artist adept in describing and demonstrating how complex questions of perspective scale and color functioned in individual objects: https://publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/808185398728802304/from-james-sowerbys-british-mineralogy https://publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/808185398728802304/from-james-sowerbys-british-mineralogy"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:09Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182702673166336 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182702673166336"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:09Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182697821372416 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182697821372416"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:09Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/80182612292173824 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/80182612292173824"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:09Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182607272689664 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182607272689664"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:09Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182602437640192 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182602437640192"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:09Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182570906943488/a-diagram-of-all-the-stages-of-the-apollo-11 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808182570906943488/a-diagram-of-all-the-stages-of-the-apollo-11"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:09Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"As a member of a bold party of adventurers you and your associates have trekked far into what seems to be a whole underworld of subterranean tunnels arteries connecting endless caves and caverns which honeycomb the foundations of the lands beneath the sun. (Dave Trampier back cover art from AD&D module D3: Vault of the Drow by Gary Gygax TSR 1978). This image also appeared in some ads for the module. https://oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/808178666534256640/as-a-member-of-a-bold-party-of-adventurers-you"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:09Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"https://humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/808176770981543936 https://humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/808176770981543936"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:09Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Church Herz Jesu (1956-60) in Bergisch-Gladbach Germany by Gottfried Bhm https://germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/808191244171870208/church-herz-jesu-1956-60-in-bergisch-gladbach https://germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/808191244171870208/church-herz-jesu-1956-60-in-bergisch-gladbach"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:21Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Thomas G. Aylesworths The Story of Vampires (1977). https://vintagerpg.tumblr.com/post/808227739409809408/when-i-was-buying-up-all-the-monsters-and https://vintagerpg.tumblr.com/post/808227739409809408/when-i-was-buying-up-all-the-monsters-and"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:13Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"A drow priestess offers a sacrifice to Lolth while a nycadaemon stands guard (David Sutherland AD&D module D3: Vault of the Drow by Gary Gygax 1978; this B&W version on the title page repeats the colored image on the monochrome cover) https://www.tumblr.com/oldschoolfrp/808201312475955200/a-drow-priestess-offers-a-sacrifice-to-lolth-while https://www.tumblr.com/oldschoolfrp/808201312475955200/a-drow-priestess-offers-a-sacrifice-to-lolth-while"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:13Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

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X Link 2026-02-11T06:06Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808228493652623360/aerial-view-from-a-us-navy-martin-pbm-mariner-of https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808228493652623360/aerial-view-from-a-us-navy-martin-pbm-mariner-of"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:06Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808228483408052224 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808228483408052224"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:06Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808228478030905344 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808228478030905344"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:06Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

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X Link 2026-02-11T06:06Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808228465039081472 https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808228465039081472"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:06Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"There's a reason every decentralized system eventually finds its way onto a platform: platforms solve real-world problems that platform users struggle to solve for themselves. 1/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:53Z 453.4K followers, 15K engagements

"Say you want to connect all 200+ countries on Earth with high-speed fiber lines; you can run a cable from each country to every other country (about [-----] cables many of them expensively draped across the ocean floor). 9/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:53Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Or you can pick one country (preferably one with both Atlantic and Pacific coasts) and run all your cables there and then interconnect them. That's America the world's global fiber hub. 10/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:53Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The problem is America isn't just a platform for fiber interconnections - it's a Great Power that uses its position at the center of the world's fiber networks to surveil and disrupt the world's communications networks: 11/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:53Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"That's a classic enshittification move on a geopolitical scale. It's not the only one America's made either. Consider the US dollar. 12/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:53Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Most important international transactions use "dollar clearing" (where goods are priced in USD irrespective of their country of origin) and buyers need only find someone who will convert their currency to dollars in order to buy food oil and other essentials. 18/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:54Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"There's two problems with this. First: America has never treated the dollar as a neutral platform. American leaders found subtle deniable ways to use "dollar dominance" to further the US geopolitical agenda at the expense of dollar users (you know "enshittification"). 19/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:54Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The other problem is that America has become steadily less deniable and subtle in these machinations finding all kinds of "exceptional circumstances" to use the dollar against dollar users: 20/ https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/26/difficult-multipolarism/#eurostack https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/26/difficult-multipolarism/#eurostack"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:54Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"America's unabashed dollar weaponization has been getting worse for years but under Trump the weaponized dollar has come to constitute an existential risk to the rest of the world sending them scrambling for alternatives. 21/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:54Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Once Trump tried to steal Greenland it became apparent that the downsides of the dollar far outweigh its upsides. 23/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:54Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Last month Christine Lagarde (president of the European Central Bank) made a public announcement on a radio show that Europe "urgently" needed to build its own payment system to avoid the American payment duopoly Visa/Mastercard: 24/ https://davekeating.substack.com/p/can-europe-free-itself-from-visamastercard https://davekeating.substack.com/p/can-europe-free-itself-from-visamastercard"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:54Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Now there's plenty of reasons to want to avoid Visa/Mastercard starting with cost: the companies have raised their prices by more than 40% since the pandemic started. 25/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:54Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"This left Visa/Mastercard as the best (and often sole) means of conducting cross-border commerce. This produced a "network effect" for Visa/Mastercard. 37/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:57Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Since so many Europeans had an American credit card in their wallets European merchants had to support them; and since so many EU merchants supported Visa/Mastercard Europeans had to carry them in their wallets. 38/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:58Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Network effects are pernicious but not insurmountable. The EU is attacking this problem from multiple angles - not just through EuroPA but also through the creation of the Digital Euro a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). 39/"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:58Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

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X Link 2026-02-11T11:52Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"#15yrsago Realtime API for Congress #15yrsago Steampunk fetish mask with ear-horn #10yrsago Facebooks Free Basics and colonialism: an argument in six devastating points #10yrsago UK surveillance bill condemned by a Parliamentary committee for the third time #10yrsago Haunted by a lack of young voter support Hillary advertises on the AOL login screen #10yrsago Celebrate V-Day like an early feminist with these Suffragist Valentines #10yrsago Elements of telegraphic style [----] #10yrsago Disgraced ex-sheriff of LA admits he lied to FBI will face no more than [--] months in prison #5yrsago Apple puts"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:52Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"My ebooks and audiobooks (from @fsgbooks @torbooks @HoZ_Books @versobooks @beaconPressBks etc) 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." 8/ https://craphound.com/shop/ https://craphound.com/shop/"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:52Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"Upcoming appearances: * Salt Lake City: Enshittification at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Tanner Humanities Center) Feb [--] * Montreal (remote): Fedimtl Feb [--] * Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit Mar 3-5 * Berkeley: Bioneers keynote Mar [--] * Berlin: Re:publica May 18-20 * Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books May [--] * Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn May 22-25 9/ https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/big-ideas-2 https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/cory-doctorow.html https://re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sprecher-cory-doctorow"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:52Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

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X Link 2026-02-12T05:49Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Staff of the Las Vegas News Bureau c. [----] Chief Jack Pepper; photographers David Lees Don English Joe Buck; secretary Margaret Krimmel. https://www.tumblr.com/vintagelasvegas/808299172045488128/1950 https://www.tumblr.com/vintagelasvegas/808299172045488128/1950"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:49Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Meet the Vampire (1979) https://www.tumblr.com/vintagerpg/808318329694666752/meet-the-vampire-1979-is-part-of-the-eerie https://www.tumblr.com/vintagerpg/808318329694666752/meet-the-vampire-1979-is-part-of-the-eerie"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:49Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Meet the Vampire (1979) "Practical as the wartime job you're doing Smart as a fighting uniform On a thousand home front duties you can Rely on Reliance Big Yank Work Suits." (1944) https://www.tumblr.com/wordfromoursponsor/808288579882287104/practical-as-the-wartime-job-youre-doing-smart https://www.tumblr.com/wordfromoursponsor/808288579882287104/practical-as-the-wartime-job-youre-doing-smart"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:49Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"House (1948) built for himself in Rotterdam the Netherlands by Jo van den Broek https://germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/808328141887160320/house-1948-built-for-himself-in-rotterdam-the https://germanpostwarmodern.tumblr.com/post/808328141887160320/house-1948-built-for-himself-in-rotterdam-the"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:51Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share here's a link to it on my surveillance-free ad-free tracker-free blog: 2/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/#robo-mengele http://pluralistic.net https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/#robo-mengele http://pluralistic.net"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:55Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Other researchers peer-review the query assessing it for rigour and then the TRE farms that query out to each NHS trust then aggregates all the responses and publishes it either immediately or after a set period. 8/"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:55Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"This is a fully privacy-preserving extremely low-cost rapid way for researchers to run queries against the full load of NHS patient records and holy shit does it ever work. 9/"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:55Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"This led HMG to commission Goldacre to produce a report on the use of TREs as the permanent principal way for medical researchers to mine NHS data (disclosure: I was interviewed for this report): 11/ https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-broader-safer-using-health-data-for-research-and-analysis https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-broader-safer-using-health-data-for-research-and-analysis"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:55Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"This is a near-miraculous system: an ultra-effective ultra-cost-effective Made-in-Britain open transparent privacy-preserving rigorous way to produce medical research insights at scale. 12/"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:55Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"It could be perfected in the UK and then exported to the world getting better every time a new partner signs on and helps shoulder the work of maintaining and improving the free/open source software that powers it. 13/"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:55Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"OpenSAFELY was the obvious contender for NHS research. But it wasn't the only one: in the other corner was Palantir a shady American company best known for helping cops and spies victimise people on the basis of dodgy statistics. 14/"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:56Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Palantir blitzed Westminster with expensive PR and lobbying and embarked on a strategy to "hoover up" every small NHS contractor until Palantir was the last company standing. Palantir UK boss Louis Moseley called it "Buying our way in": 15/ https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/01/the-palantir-will-see-you-now/#public-private-partnership https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/01/the-palantir-will-see-you-now/#public-private-partnership"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:56Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"It worked. First Palantir got 60m worth of no-bid contracts during the acute phase of the pandemic and then it bootstrapped that into a 330m contract to handle all the NHS England data: 16/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/22/palantir_wins_nhs_contract/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/22/palantir_wins_nhs_contract/"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:56Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"It was a huge win for corruption over excellence and corporate surveillance over privacy. At the same time it was a terrible blow to UK technological sovereignty and long-term trust in the NHS. 17/"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:56Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The fact that there's a better cheaper more effective technologically sovereign tool that HMG has already recognised only bolsters the union's case for jettisoning Palantir's products altogether. 22/"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:56Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir; and more Archived at: #Pluralistic 1/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:03Z 453.4K followers, 14.1K engagements

"Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir: There is power in the union. 2/ https://x.com/doctorow/status/2021870859711898084 If you weren't paying attention you might think the most grotesque indefensible aspect of Starmer's Labour turning over NHS records to the US military contractor Palantir is that Palantir are Trumpist war-criminals "founded to kill communists": https://t.co/rgMHFocbzk 1/ https://t.co/FBK8ymwpkL https://x.com/doctorow/status/2021870859711898084 If you weren't paying attention you might think the most grotesque indefensible aspect of Starmer's Labour turning over"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:03Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Hey look at this * Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas * Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination * Olympic Spirits on ICE * Bracing for the Enshittification of Embodied AI and Robotics * Joshua Idehen - Once in a lifetime (Talking Heads/Anglique Kidjo) (h/t Paul Bennun) 3/ https://www.youtube.com/watchv=xQG5zN8QOAs https://sites.google.com/view/bracing-for-enshittification https://prospect.org/2026/02/11/feb-2026-magazine-sports-olympic-spirits-on-ice-los-angeles/"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:03Z 453.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Yesterday's threads: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world; and more 4/ https://x.com/doctorow/status/2021552826212614198 Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world; and more Archived at: https://t.co/luKYaY7Dy8 #Pluralistic 1/ https://t.co/QkjZ3cZl4x https://x.com/doctorow/status/2021552826212614198 Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread). NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT. Inside: Europe takes a"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:03Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"Recent appearances: * Panopticon :3 (Trashfuture) * America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity (Do Not Pass Go) * Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It with Tim Wu (Ezra Klein) * How the Internet Got Worse (Masters in Business) * Enshittification (Jon Favreau/Offline): 10/ https://crooked.com/podcast/the-enshittification-of-the-internet-with-cory-doctorow/ https://www.youtube.com/watchv=auXlkuVhxMo https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-doctorow-wu.html https://www.donotpassgo.ca/p/americas-enshittification-is-canadas"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:03Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at no ads trackers or data-collection Here's today's edition: 11/ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/ http://pluralistic.net https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/ http://pluralistic.net"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:03Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"If you prefer a newsletter subscribe to the plura-list which is also ad- and tracker-free and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🪨". Suggestions solicited for future emojis Subscribe here: 12/ https://mail.flarn.com/mailman/listinfo/plura-list/ https://mail.flarn.com/mailman/listinfo/plura-list/"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:03Z 453.4K followers, [--] engagements

"Buckminster Fuller https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808359827044696064/buckminster-fuller https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/808359827044696064/buckminster-fuller"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:53Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The Terminal Man poster from Japan [----]. https://humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/808357974917693440 https://humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/808357974917693440"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:53Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

"With a bloodcurdling roar a gigantic [--] meter tall lizard-like shape charges from the steamy mist of the cavern. It's a small komodos only a baby. (Jim Holloway from Gamma World adventure module GW3: The Cleansing War of Garik Blackhand by Michael Price and Garry Spiegle TSR 1983) https://www.tumblr.com/oldschoolfrp/808382507607326721/with-a-bloodcurdling-roar-a-gigantic-6-meter-tall https://www.tumblr.com/oldschoolfrp/808382507607326721/with-a-bloodcurdling-roar-a-gigantic-6-meter-tall"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:13Z 453.4K followers, [----] engagements

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