Cory Doctorow

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983), “Greatest Show on Eternia”

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983), “Greatest Show on Eternia”

Gebru's co-author on the Parrots paper was @emilymbender, a computational linguistics specialist at UW, who is one of the best-informed and most damning critics of AI hype. You can get a good sense of her position from @WeilLiz's @NYMag profile:

The Moderator's Trilemma is introduced in "Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media," a superb paper from @ARozenshtein of @UofMNLawSchool, forthcoming in the journal @JournalSpeech, available as a prepub on @SSRN: [link] 3/

In @DavidGraeber's must-read essay "The Utopia of Rules," he nails the way that capitalist societies generate Soviet-style bureaucracies, especially for poor people.

Hope - alternatives - lies in reviving our structural imagination, thinking through other ways of managing our collective future. Last May, @Wired published a brilliant article that did just that, by @divyasiddarth, @dsallentess and @glenweyl

#5yrsago An incredibly important paper on whether data can ever be “anonymized” and how we should handle release of large data-sets [link] 12/

"[Care workers] will never be as cheap to produce as television sets, cars, or even robots. We will remain more valuable, even if we can’t be bought and sold." Folbre's excellent piece is part of an equally excellent series at the *Prospect*. 28/

It's a subject Folbre is eminently qualified to write on. She is an emeritus professor of #economics at @UMassAmherst, where she directs the Program on Gender and Care Work. Her blog, Care Talk, is a must-read on this subject: 7/

In other words, Beaton's not just telling an important story, she's also telling a fantastically engrossing story - a page-turner, filled with human drama, delicious tension, likable and complex characters, all the elements of a first-rate tale. 17/

As @EFF's @prilKit writes in her must-read analysis of the OGL, this means "the only benefit OGL offers, legally, is that you can copy verbatim some descriptions of some elements that otherwise might arguably rise to the level of copyrightability." [link] 36/

Naomi Novik's incredible, brilliant, stupendous "Temeraire" series: The Napoleonic Wars, but with dragons! [link] 2/