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Cory Doctorow

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: AI psychosis and the warped mirror; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/18/automating-gang-stalking-delusion/

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Narcissus staring into his reflection; his face and the face of the reflection have been replaced by the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — Narcissus staring into his reflection; his face and the face of the reflection have been replaced by the staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.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

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Conspiratorialism's causal chain; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/17/cause-and-effect/

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Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism's causal chain (17 Sep 2025)

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: No such thing as selective censorship resistance; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/16/too-many-throats-to-choke/

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Pluralistic: No such thing as selective censorship resistance (16 Sep 2025)

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 7 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Wallet voting; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/

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"A 1930s scene of a man and woman casting ballots in a cardboard box labeles "BALLOT BOX." Superimposed is a man holding aloft a fan-fold wallet that has unfurled to reveal numerous cards. The man's head has been replaced with Uncle Sam's. The ballot the woman is casting bas been replaced with a US$100 bill.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/

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A business-suited figure seen from behind, climbing a tall, existential white stone staircase that rises to infinity. His head has been replaced with a horse's head. The background has been replaced with a shadowy panel of knobs and buttons.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Hate the player AND the game; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · last week

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump steals $400b from American workers; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/09/germanium-valley/

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Fingerspitzengefühl; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/

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An organ grinder with a monkey. The organ grinder's head has been replaced with a Gilded Age caricature of a sneering millionaire. The monkey's head has been replaced with the head of a miserable child coal miner. The background is a blurred, halftoned view of a vast square in Beijing with a giant official building in the background, and a Chinese flag on a flagpole. On the organ is a blurred portrait of John Philip Sousa.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Stock buybacks are stock swindles; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/computer-says-huh/

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An old-timey carny barker, waving a cane and shouting. He is standing in front of a vintage photo of the NYSE trading floor.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Why Wikipedia works; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Canny Valley; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/

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A mockup of Canny Valley, set into an oil painting of a pastoral scene.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The worst possible antitrust outcome; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unpunishing-process/

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An Android droid mascot rising from a volcanic caldera, backed by hellish red smoke. The droid is covered with demons froom Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: All (antitrust) politics are local; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/02/act-locally/

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A modest Grecian revival columnated building amidst leafy trees, with gilded letters over the door reading CITY HALL. To one side is a guillotine with a gilded blade. In the foreground are the silhouettes of Victorian onlookers in elaborate hats.

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en — A modest Grecian revival columnated building amidst leafy trees, with gilded letters over the door reading CITY HALL. To one side is a guillotine with a gilded blade. In the foreground are the silhouettes of Victorian onlookers in elaborate hats. Image: Onbekend (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guillotine_Rijksmuseum_Gevangenpoort.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Darth Android; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/

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An Android robot standing atop a cracked mobile phone, wearing Darth Vader armor.

Image:
Ashwin Kumar (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samsung_Galaxy_S2_shattered_screen.jpg

CC BY-SA 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en — An Android robot standing atop a cracked mobile phone, wearing Darth Vader armor. Image: Ashwin Kumar (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samsung_Galaxy_S2_shattered_screen.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: A weekend's worth of links; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/30/merely-clever/

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A photo of an early 20th century 'auto polo' match in which drivers of open-air cars wielding polo mallets attempt to move a ball down a playing field. One driver is in the act of being flung clear of his car; upside-down in midair, with his mallet flying over him.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The capitalism of fools; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/strew-deal/

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A bloated, shouting billionaire standing on a parapet atop a wall bearing gilded letters that spell out $ACRED TARIFF WALL. He has Trump's hair. Behind him is an ashamed-looking elephant in the livery of the symbol of the GOP. Below the wall is a circle of cavorting monkeys in bright garb. They stand amid a pastoral oil painted scene.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: By all means, tread on those people; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/

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The Gadsen 'DONT TREAD ON ME' flag; the text has been replaced with 'THERE MUST BE IN-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW PROTECTS BUT DOES NOT BIND ALONGSIDE OUT-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW BINDS BUT DOES NOT PROTECT.'

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/25/disenshittified-audiobooks/

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An oil painting of Balthazzar's feast. Collaged onto the feast tables are the Enshittification book as an ebook, audiobook, hardcover and film cel, as well as the Canny Valley art book.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/23/become-unoptimizable/

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A black and white photo of a snowplow running down a country road, creating a tall bank on the shoulder. The plow is being driven by a Gilded Age editorial cartoon caricature of JP Morgan, and bears an Uber placard. Atop the snowbank are three impoverished little girls with wild hair in tattered dresses. They are being showered in snow by the plow.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Radical juries; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/22/jury-nullification/

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An oil painting of a jury; all the jurors heads have been replaced with Karl Marx's head.