AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers: A reverse-centaur in the loop.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-27 17:49:37

On a recent This Machine Kills episode, guest Hagen Blix described the ultimate form of "AI therapy" with a "human in the loop":

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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405. AI is the Demon God of Capital (ft. Hagen Blix)

We chat with linguist and cognitive scientist Hagen Blix about his new book Why We Fear AI (co-authored with computer scientist Ingeborg Glimmer) about how the technical qualities of AI – especially L

^SoundCloud

Hey look at this

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* Atomic Highway - Post Apocalyptic Roleplaying archive.org/details/atomic-hig… (h/t Tierney Hamilton)

* THE SILICON VALLEY EFFECT law.stanford.edu/wp-content/up…

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Yesterday's threads: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-05-26 16:22:20

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/26/bab…

#Pluralistic

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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...

^Macmillan

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:

* #Seattle: Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, May 31
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* Virtual: Fediforum, Jun 5
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* #PDX: Teardown 2025, Jun 20-22
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* #PDX: Picks and Shovels with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble, Jun 20
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* #Tualatin Public Library, Jun 22:
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* #London: How To Academy with Riley Quinn, Jul 1
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Recent appearances:

* Kick 'Em In the Dongle (Understood)
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* The Big Story
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* Keynote (Pycon)
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HEY #SEATTLE! I'm appearing at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival THIS SATURDAY (May 31) with the folks from NPR's On The Media!

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Cory Doctorow at Cascade PBS Ideas Festival

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently PICKS AND SHOVELS and THE BEZZLE (followups to RED TEAM BLUES) and THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of …

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