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Inside: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/technopolitics/
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@pluralistic my god, you strawmanning again!? we already told you, nobody on the left thinks the problem with LLMs is some "original sin" bullshit.
why did you make that up!?
Cursed image.
@geofftc It was fun to make!
@geofftc The bodies come from the stock trove of H Armstrong Roberts, the photog who more or less invented stock photography and whose entire corpus is in the public domain.
The background is from Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588) - a catalog of every machine know in Europe at the time.
Thatcher's head is from a White House portrait (work of US authorship and thus public domain).
Bill's head is from a book-tour appearance and CC licensed.
here is the soundtrack for today's article
https://fitandtheconniptions.bandcamp.com/track/old-blue-witch
Old Blue Witch, by Fit and the Conniptions
Fit and the Conniptions
@pluralistic For the love of goddess, please don't nudeify Margaret Thatcher.
William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher: The Street Finds Its Own Alternatives For Things.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116245164337719643
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Hey look at this
* Gone (Almost) Phishin’ https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/
* The Foilies 2026 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/foilies-2026
* Why Voters Should Support Senator Klobuchar’s ‘‘Antitrust Accountability and Transparency Act’’ https://www.thesling.org/why-voters-should-support-senator-klobuchars-antitrust-accountability-and-transparency-act/
* Bombshell Document Details Watergate-Style Corruption at the Antitrust Division https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-bombshell-document
* Sodium-ion batteries hit the Midwestern grid in first-of-its-kind pilot https://electrek.co/2026/03/11/sodium-ion-batteries-hit-the-midwestern-grid-in-first-of-its-kind-pilot/ (h/t Slashdot)
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#25yrsago Prison for spamming https://it.slashdot.org/story/01/03/15/1325251/spammers-face-jail-time
#25yrsago 1040 for laid-off dot com workers https://web.archive.org/web/20010603113932/http://www.girlchick.com/erin/Pics/DotCom1040.jpg
#25yrsago Sony ships a PalmOS device https://web.archive.org/web/20010331181042/http://www.sony.co.jp/sd/CLIE/index_pc.html
#25yrsago “You Own Your Own Metadata” https://www.feedmag.com/templates/default_a_id-1648
#20yrsago Action-figures made from Ethernet cable https://basik.ru/handmade/2066/
#15yrsago Poor countries have more piracy because media costs too much — report https://web.archive.org/web/20110310042425/http://piracy.ssrc.org/the-report/
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