(Like everything else he does, Elon Musk's policy of responding to media questions about Twitter with a poop emoji is just him copying things other people thought up, making them worse, and taking credit for them:)
https://www.theverge.com/23815634/tesla-elon-musk-origin-founder-twitter-land-of-the-giants
Schmidt's actions do not reflect an attitude of "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Rather, they are the normal response that we all have to getting doxed.
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When Schmidt and McNealy and Zuck tell us that we don't have privacy, or we don't want privacy, or that privacy is bad for us, they're disguising a demand as an observation. "Privacy is dead" actually means, "When privacy is dead, I will be richer than you can imagine, so stop trying to save it, goddamnit."
We are all prone to believing our own bullshit, but when a tech baron gets high on his own supply, his mental contortions have broad implications for *all* of us.
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Schmidt was echoing the sentiments of his old co-conspirator, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it":
https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
Both men knew better. Schmidt, in particular, is *very* jealous of his own privacy. When #Cnet reporters used Google to uncover and publish public (but intimate and personal) facts about Schmidt, Schmidt ordered Google PR to ignore *all* future requests for comment from Cnet reporters:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/how-cnet-got-banned-by-google/
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(Like everything else he does, Elon Musk's policy of responding to media questions about Twitter with a poop emoji is just him copying things other people thought up, making them worse, and taking credit for them:)
https://www.theverge.com/23815634/tesla-elon-musk-origin-founder-twitter-land-of-the-giants
Schmidt's actions do not reflect an attitude of "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Rather, they are the normal response that we all have to getting doxed.
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Schmidt was echoing the sentiments of his old co-conspirator, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it":
https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
Both men knew better. Schmidt, in particular, is *very* jealous of his own privacy. When #Cnet reporters used Google to uncover and publish public (but intimate and personal) facts about Schmidt, Schmidt ordered Google PR to ignore *all* future requests for comment from Cnet reporters:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/how-cnet-got-banned-by-google/
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Yesterday's threads: When the app turns you into a robo-scab; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110804110601553118
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My latest book is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!
Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US):
and Forbidden Planet (UK):
https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/
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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
https://chokepointcapitalism.com
Signed copies available from Book Soup:
https://www.booksoup.com/book/9780807007068
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Yesterday's threads: When the app turns you into a robo-scab; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110804110601553118
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It got so bad I put up an audiobook on Amazon - me, reading an essay, explaining how Audible rips off writers and readers. It's called "Why None of My Audiobooks Are For Sale on Audible":
https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff
To get my audiobooks into readers' ears, I pre-sell them on #Kickstarter.
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When the app turns you into a robo-scab: The implacable, inarguable tactics of disciplinary technology.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110804039638996432
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When the app turns you into a robo-scab: The implacable, inarguable tactics of disciplinary technology.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110804039638996432
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