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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 1 hour ago

Recent appearances:

* Enshittification (99% Invisible)
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/666-enshittification/

* Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Disruptor, with Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio (CBC Ideas)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16210039-artificial-intelligence-the-ultimate-disruptor

* When Do Platforms Stop Innovating and Start Extracting? (InnovEU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccDR0YaMt8

* Pete "Mayor" Buttigieg (No Gods No Mayors)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pete-mayor-with-155614612

* The internet is getting worse (CBC The National)
https://youtu.be/dCVUCdg3Uqc?si=FMcA0EI_Mi13Lw-P

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99% Invisible

Enshittification - 99% Invisible

Jared Wilson is a seventh-generation farmer. He runs a family farm in Missouri, and like most farmers today, he’s facing a lot of challenges, including inconsistent weather and a shaky global economy. But one problem that’s been really vexing Jared for the past decade is the software on his tractor. Most of Jared’s equipment is

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@jawarajabbi@mastodon.online · activity timestamp 58 minutes ago

@pluralistic

As usual, Mr. Doctorow does not mince words.

#AIBubble #AI

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 1 hour ago

I'm coming to #Guelph, Ontario TOMORROW (May 😄 to deliver the Musagetes Lecture:

https://riverrun.ca/whats-on/guelph-lecture-on-being-2026/

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Guelph Lecture—On Being

Presented by ArtsEverywhere Festival The 2026 Guelph Lecture—On Being will be presented by Cory Doctorow on the “enshittification” of the internet. The keynote lecture will explore how we can…

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 1 hour ago

Bubbles are REALLY evil: Bernie Ebbers got what was coming to him.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116532300697071646

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 1 hour ago

Hey look at this

* Appearing Productive in The Workplace https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/

* Unsolicited https://www.jennyvolvovski.com/category/unsolicited

* Half of Labour’s Voters Set to Abandon Party in England as Keir Starmer’s ‘London Wall’ Crumbles https://bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/exclusive-poll-half-of-labours-voters-set-to-abandon-party-in-england-as-keir-starmers-london-wall-crumbles/

* Am I Meant To Be Impressed? https://www.wheresyoured.at/am-i-meant-to-be-impressed/

* Froth is a small live lexical language for programmable devices https://frothlang.org/

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Am I Meant To Be Impressed?

If you liked this piece, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s finances,

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Exclusive Poll: Half of Labour's Voters Set to Abandon Party in England as Keir Starmer’s 'London Wall' Crumbles

Support for Labour and the Conservatives set to fall severely at Thursday's local elections, as Reform and the Greens make gains, an exclusive Omnisis poll for Byline Times suggests

Unsolicited / Jenny Volvovski

Jenny Volvovski is a designer by day and asleep by night.

No One's Happy

Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 1 hour ago

#20yrsago Judge mocks FCC’s legal argument for wiretapping VoIP https://web.archive.org/web/20060512141440/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004638.php

#20yrsago Podcasting saved from the UN — for now https://web.archive.org/web/20060603152220/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004637.php

#15yrsago Two billion people and the royal wedding: pretty damned unlikely https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2011/05/06/2-billion-viewers/

#15yrsago Mozilla tells DHS: we won’t help you censor the Internet https://torrentfreak.com/homeland-security-wants-mozilla-to-pull-domain-seizure-add-on-110505/

#15yrsago Foxconn workers forced to sign promise not to commit suicide due to working conditions https://memex.craphound.com/2011/05/05/foxconn-workers-forced-to-sign-promise-not-to-commit-suicide-due-to-working-conditions/

https://memex.craphound.com

Foxconn workers forced to sign promise not to commit suicide due to working conditions

https://torrentfreak.com

Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On

Homeland Security's ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out during the past several months. In an attempt to correct this 'vulnerability' in their anti-piracy strategy, ICE have asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site. Unfortunately for them Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet.

Two billion viewers (Phil Gyford’s website)

EFF: DeepLinks

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