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A hospital room with a hospital bed. The patient in the bed is wearing some kind of red mind-control helmet with a red cord snaking away to a switchplate on the wall. He is grimacing and clutching his sheets. A breakway wall shows a caricature of Uncle Sam whose legs stick out to suggest a horseshoe magnet. His face has been replaced with the glowing red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Behind him is a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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A hospital room with a hospital bed. The patient in the bed is wearing some kind of red mind-control helmet with a red cord snaking away to a switchplate on the wall. He is grimacing and clutching his sheets. A breakway wall shows a caricature of Uncle Sam whose legs stick out to suggest a horseshoe magnet. His face has been replaced with the glowing red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Behind him is a 'code waterfall' as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 12:58:08 UTC Cory Doctorow's linkblog

The internet is embroiled in a vicious polycrisis: child safety, surveillance, discrimination, disinformation, polarization, monopoly, journalism collapse - not only have we failed to agree on what to do about these, there's not even a consensus that all of these *are* problems.
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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:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy
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