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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

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Inside: When AI prophecy fails; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/worker-frightening-machines/

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Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025)

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A black and white image of an armed overseer supervising several chain-gang prisoners in stripes doing forced labor. The overseer's head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The prisoners' heads have been replaced with hackers' hoodies.
A black and white image of an armed overseer supervising several chain-gang prisoners in stripes doing forced labor. The overseer's head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The prisoners' heads have been replaced with hackers' hoodies.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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Inside: Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/28/productive-seething/

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Pluralistic: Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off" (28 Oct 2025)

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The Drawn & Quarterly cover for Raymond Beisinger's '9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off.'
The Drawn & Quarterly cover for Raymond Beisinger's '9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off.'
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

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Inside: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/

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Pluralistic: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death (27 Oct 2025)

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A black and white photo of man's hand holding a gavel over a wooden table. The photo has been tinted green and the Shake Shack logo has been inserted behind the scene. Beneath the gavel is a Shake Shack hamburger whose meat has been tinted green.
A black and white photo of man's hand holding a gavel over a wooden table. The photo has been tinted green and the Shake Shack logo has been inserted behind the scene. Beneath the gavel is a Shake Shack hamburger whose meat has been tinted green.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week

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Inside: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/

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Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)


A 1950s delivery man in front of a van. The image has been altered. The man's head has been replaced with a horse's head. The man is now wearing an Amazon delivery uniform gilet. The packages are covered with Amazon shipping tags, tape and logos. The van has the Amazon 'smile' logo and Prime wordmark. Behind the man, framed in the van's doorway, is the glaring red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

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A 1950s delivery man in front of a van. The image has been altered. The man's head has been replaced with a horse's head. The man is now wearing an Amazon delivery uniform gilet. The packages are covered with Amazon shipping tags, tape and logos. The van has the Amazon 'smile' logo and Prime wordmark. Behind the man, framed in the van's doorway, is the glaring red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A 1950s delivery man in front of a van. The image has been altered. The man's head has been replaced with a horse's head. The man is now wearing an Amazon delivery uniform gilet. The packages are covered with Amazon shipping tags, tape and logos. The van has the Amazon 'smile' logo and Prime wordmark. Behind the man, framed in the van's doorway, is the glaring red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' 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
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp last week

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Inside: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/21/florida-duh/

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Pluralistic: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach' (21 Oct 2025)

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The Penguin Random House cover for Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach.'
The Penguin Random House cover for Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach.'
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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Inside: The mad king's digital killswitch; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

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Pluralistic: The mad king's digital killswitch (20 Oct 2025)

The Earth seen from space. Hovering above it is Uncle Sam, with Trump's hair - his legs are stuck out before him, and they terminate in ray-guns that are shooting red rays over the Earth. The starry sky is punctuated by 'code waterfall' effects, as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
The Earth seen from space. Hovering above it is Uncle Sam, with Trump's hair - his legs are stuck out before him, and they terminate in ray-guns that are shooting red rays over the Earth. The starry sky is punctuated by 'code waterfall' effects, as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
The Earth seen from space. Hovering above it is Uncle Sam, with Trump's hair - his legs are stuck out before him, and they terminate in ray-guns that are shooting red rays over the Earth. The starry sky is punctuated by 'code waterfall' effects, as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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Inside: The AI that we'll have after AI; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/post-ai-ai/

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Pluralistic: The AI that we'll have after AI (16 Oct 2025)

A woodcut of a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a green circuit-board.


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A woodcut of a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a green circuit-board. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A woodcut of a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a green circuit-board. 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
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The AI that we'll have after AI; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/post-ai-ai/

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Pluralistic: The AI that we'll have after AI (16 Oct 2025)

A woodcut of a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a green circuit-board.


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A woodcut of a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a green circuit-board. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A woodcut of a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a green circuit-board. 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
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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Inside: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall!; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/

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Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

A 1989 black and white photo of the Berlin Wall; peering over the wall is Microsoft's 'Clippy' chatbot.


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A 1989 black and white photo of the Berlin Wall; peering over the wall is Microsoft's 'Clippy' chatbot. Image: Armin Kübelbeck (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Wall_April_1989_23.JPG CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
A 1989 black and white photo of the Berlin Wall; peering over the wall is Microsoft's 'Clippy' chatbot. Image: Armin Kübelbeck (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Wall_April_1989_23.JPG CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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Andrew Shields
@AndrewShields@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

My Blogspot posts on Ghost, all the way back to 2006. #111Words #Ghost #Blogspot #Blog #Newsletter #Facebook #Interoperability #Enshittification #CoryDoctorow @pluralistic #Pluralistic https://111-words.ghost.io/my-blogspot-posts-on-ghost-all-the-way-back-to-2006/

111 Words

My Blogspot posts on Ghost, all the way back to 2006

On 6 September 2025, I started posting to my new Ghost newsletter rather than my old Blogpost blog. Today, Ghost has transferred all the posts from the andrewjshields blog to the 111 Words newsletter—all the way back to 2006. In his ongoing discussion of the enshittification of the internet,
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@AndrewShields@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

My Blogspot posts on Ghost, all the way back to 2006. #111Words #Ghost #Blogspot #Blog #Newsletter #Facebook #Interoperability #Enshittification #CoryDoctorow @pluralistic #Pluralistic https://111-words.ghost.io/my-blogspot-posts-on-ghost-all-the-way-back-to-2006/

111 Words

My Blogspot posts on Ghost, all the way back to 2006

On 6 September 2025, I started posting to my new Ghost newsletter rather than my old Blogpost blog. Today, Ghost has transferred all the posts from the andrewjshields blog to the 111 Words newsletter—all the way back to 2006. In his ongoing discussion of the enshittification of the internet,
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall!; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/

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Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025)

A 1989 black and white photo of the Berlin Wall; peering over the wall is Microsoft's 'Clippy' chatbot.


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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Wall_April_1989_23.JPG

CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
A 1989 black and white photo of the Berlin Wall; peering over the wall is Microsoft's 'Clippy' chatbot. Image: Armin Kübelbeck (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Wall_April_1989_23.JPG CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
A 1989 black and white photo of the Berlin Wall; peering over the wall is Microsoft's 'Clippy' chatbot. Image: Armin Kübelbeck (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Wall_April_1989_23.JPG CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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Inside: How to fix the UK housing crisis; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/13/castles-not-assets/

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A sepia-tinted slum scene. In the foreground is a gleaming Cooper Mini in the livery of London estate agents Foxton's; one of the shanties behind it has a Foxton's 'SOLD' sign bolted to it. Over the whole scene rises an ethereal portrait of Margaret Thatcher, dating from her prime ministership.
A sepia-tinted slum scene. In the foreground is a gleaming Cooper Mini in the livery of London estate agents Foxton's; one of the shanties behind it has a Foxton's 'SOLD' sign bolted to it. Over the whole scene rises an ethereal portrait of Margaret Thatcher, dating from her prime ministership.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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Inside: The curious, intertwined history of climate and digital rights activism; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/11/cyber-rights-now/

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A field of utility scale solar. Behind the mountains on the horizon line loom two logos: the original EFF 'clenched fist and lightning bolt' logo and the first Earth Day logo. They are reflected in the solar panels. Behind them roils hellish red-shot smoke.
A field of utility scale solar. Behind the mountains on the horizon line loom two logos: the original EFF 'clenched fist and lightning bolt' logo and the first Earth Day logo. They are reflected in the solar panels. Behind them roils hellish red-shot smoke.
A field of utility scale solar. Behind the mountains on the horizon line loom two logos: the original EFF 'clenched fist and lightning bolt' logo and the first Earth Day logo. They are reflected in the solar panels. Behind them roils hellish red-shot smoke.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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Inside: A disenshittification moment from the land of mass storage; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/10/synology/

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A massive goliath figure in a loincloth, holding a club and sitting on a boulder; his head has been replaced with the head of Benjamin Franklin taken from a US $100 bill. He is peering down at a Synology NAS box, festooned with Enshittification poop emojis, with angry eyebrows and black grawlix bars over their mouths.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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Inside: California bans algorithmic price-fixing; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/09/pricewars/

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A group of businessmen, sitting around a boardroom table. They are staring at the bear from the California flag, who is standing on the table, his eyes glowing red, and blood dripping from his muzzle and pooling on the table.
A group of businessmen, sitting around a boardroom table. They are staring at the bear from the California flag, who is standing on the table, his eyes glowing red, and blood dripping from his muzzle and pooling on the table.
A group of businessmen, sitting around a boardroom table. They are staring at the bear from the California flag, who is standing on the table, his eyes glowing red, and blood dripping from his muzzle and pooling on the table.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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Inside: They're just trying to earn a buck; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/07/take-it-easy/

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The Capitol building. In the foreground are two gigantic pigs - the size of elephants. They are being fed by a male figure whose head has been replaced with a shadowy hacker's hoodie. The background is a dark, blown up US$100 bill with Franklin's eyes gone black.
The Capitol building. In the foreground are two gigantic pigs - the size of elephants. They are being fed by a male figure whose head has been replaced with a shadowy hacker's hoodie. The background is a dark, blown up US$100 bill with Franklin's eyes gone black.
The Capitol building. In the foreground are two gigantic pigs - the size of elephants. They are being fed by a male figure whose head has been replaced with a shadowy hacker's hoodie. The background is a dark, blown up US$100 bill with Franklin's eyes gone black.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

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Inside: Apple's unlawful evil; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/06/america-with-chinese-characteristics/

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A squadron of four heavily armed riot cops with batons in their hands. They wear visors, Oakleys and gaiters. Their badges have been replaced with chromed Apple logos. In the background is an Apple 'Think Different' wordmark. Looming in the foreground is Trump's candyfloss hair.
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A squadron of four heavily armed riot cops with batons in their hands. They wear visors, Oakleys and gaiters. Their badges have been replaced with chromed Apple logos. In the background is an Apple 'Think Different' wordmark. Looming in the foreground is Trump's candyfloss hair.
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Nicole Parsons
@Npars01@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@katrinakatrinka @leemeade @pluralistic

As #pluralistic has suggested, cutting off AI as early as possible will mitigate the economic pain that its inevitable crash will entail

That can be hastened even further by stopping the source of its funding

A fast switch to solar, wind, etc starves AI of its fossil fuel investment dollars (Might also save democracy & the planet too)

Koch Network has Trump raising tariffs on Chinese solar panels by 3500%. Get into the solar panel (smuggling) biz.

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@katrinakatrinka @leemeade @pluralistic

As #pluralistic has suggested, cutting off AI as early as possible will mitigate the economic pain that its inevitable crash will entail

That can be hastened even further by stopping the source of its funding

A fast switch to solar, wind, etc starves AI of its fossil fuel investment dollars (Might also save democracy & the planet too)

Koch Network has Trump raising tariffs on Chinese solar panels by 3500%. Get into the solar panel (smuggling) biz.

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