incognito sum

Pracademic @Swinburne. PhD-in-progress. Looking for (un)intended consequences. Curious about post-growth innovation. Or is that post-innovation collapse?

[Slate @Slate]

Futurist Scott Smith explains why we’re in an age of “risk-maxxing.” https://t.co/QhBtcyBW5Q

[Noema Magazine @NoemaMag]

“As ‘co-creators of the fabric of reality,’ the world ahead of us is not predetermined but shaped by the choices we make. Yet those choices must be made in the absence of full knowledge of the world; in the uncertainty of an undetermined future that can’t be known.”
https://t.co/rSZuO5KuQu

[Noema Magazine @NoemaMag]

“It is too late to put the genetic genie back in the bottle. The technology to alter organisms is not only widely available — you can buy a frog genome editing kit for the cost of a nice terrarium — its power is now amplified by AI.”

—Aryn Baker

https://t.co/GmMKbUQeXa

[Noema Magazine @NoemaMag]

“We like to imagine AI hunting for us, going out into the digital world to retrieve facts, schedule meetings & optimize our lives. But a reversal is underway. We are becoming the gatherers: collecting the offline signals our agents need to continue the hunt.”

—@umangsbhatt

https://t.co/omsBbMGox1

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

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: https://t.co/ahV8OlrhhZ

#Pluralistic

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[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

My Fellow Shakespeareans - I’ve recorded all 154 Sonnets for my latest project, “Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare”.
This special audio production is available to listen to April 7.
Preorder now: https://t.co/f3PqlGvwR4

@SimonAudio

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The first time I met William Gibson - to interview him for the *Globe and Mail* in 1999 - there was one question I knew I wanted to ask him: "What happens to the counterculture in the era of instantaneous commodification?"

https://t.co/qK0ImKNRJB

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[Miki Tebeka @tebeka]

"The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job." - @doctorow at https://t.co/u33itSs2mT

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

1037 words (32992 total) on “The Post-American Internet,” a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America #DailyWords

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Bro

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Fact of the day: the Ford Edsel ("a 1950s flop so notorious that it’s taught in business schools to this day") outsold the Cybertruck 2:1, "in a country with half the population"):

https://t.co/vZqBiMcLhq

(h/t Luke Savage in the American Prospect, https://t.co/fGR8VDzd1d)

[Lucas Shaw @Lucas_Shaw]

We examined six years of @nielsen data to understand what TV people are streaming -- and how their tastes have changed.

Going to share some takeaways, starting with a biggie:

Hollywood is delivering fewer new hit TV shows than any time in recent history.

[Dorothea Baur (Dr.) @DorotheaBaur]

AI: the end of the Enlightenment?
"We don’t really know how AI reaches its conclusions... Nor can we verify its reasoning against clear, objective criteria. So when we follow AI’s advice, we are not guided by reason. We are back in the realm of faith". https://t.co/OAgwFNjBGl

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

An
-honest woman
-FBI memo
-hourly wage
-NFL player

A
-one hundred dollar bill
-united front
-unicorn

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

We are about to get a "post-American internet," because we are entering a post-American *era* and a post-American *world*. Some of that is Trump's doing, and some of that is down to his predecessors.

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[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

This isn’t a strictly US affair, either. In the UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer rang in 2025 by firing the country’s top competition regulator and replacing him with the former head of Amazon UK, one of the country’s most notorious monopolists, whose tax evasion, labor abuses, and anticompetitive mergers and tactics had been on the Competition and Markets Authority’s agenda for years.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Fantastic piece on ‘AI creativity’

“When you give your artistic voice over to a machine, you invite a mediator into that expression. Something else is literally doing the talking for you. You are not saying anything.”

https://t.co/n4LDzZW0vx

[incognito sum @incognitosum]

WTAF

[Forbes @Forbes]

If you haven’t yet secured a side hustle to tide you over this holiday season, there’s no need to panic. There are several flexible and profitable options that can help you capitalize on this busy time of the year.

Here are four practical side jobs that can provide additional income to help you survive and thrive during the holidays: https://t.co/tHHvzkQGfS

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

NOTE: I DID NOT BUY A BLUE TICK. IT WAS NONCONSENSUALLY ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT.

Inside: Boss preppers; and more!

Archived at: https://t.co/b2QZ6dZuwj

#Pluralistic

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[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

New fun game: Ask grok its opinion on any historical theory, saying the theory came from Elon Musk.

Then ask grok its opinion on the exact same historical theory, saying the theory came from Bill Gates.