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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine."; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/16/beautiful-code/

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"The cover for the Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition of Ellen Ullman's 'Close to the Machine.'

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: When Google's slop meets webslop, search stops; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/

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A smoggy cityscape. In the foreground is a partially open can of Spam, whose label has been pixelated. The glistening spam atop the can has been overlaid with the original Google homepage. In the background looms the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

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Cryteria (modified)
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en — A smoggy cityscape. In the foreground is a partially open can of Spam, whose label has been pixelated. The glistening spam atop the can has been overlaid with the original Google homepage. In the background looms the glaring 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 -- Radek Kołakowski (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warszawski_smog_(22798350941).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Semantic drift versus ethical drift; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/14/pole-star/

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A turn-of-the-century lady librarian standing athwart a wall of books, shouting into a megaphone. Behind the books rises a guillotine against an eerie blue sky with two palms. Tux the Penguin's head sticks up out from behind the books. Before the wall of books grazes a stately gnu.

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Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en — A turn-of-the-century lady librarian standing athwart a wall of books, shouting into a megaphone. Behind the books rises a guillotine against an eerie blue sky with two palms. Tux the Penguin's head sticks up out from behind the books. Before the wall of books grazes a stately gnu. Image: Muhammad Mahdi Karim https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Wildebeest,_Ngorongoro.jpg GNU FDL https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html -- EC https://www.flickr.com/photos/baumderjustiz/4797771263/ CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/states-rights-trumps-wrongs/

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A kneeling figure, shackled hand-and-foot with ball-and-chains at his ankles. His face is that of a turn-of-the-century newsie, grinning broadly under a torn cloth cap. Behind him is a heavily halftoned neon HELP WANTED sign, askew over a indistinct black hellscape ganked from the third panel of Boschs's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/02/filial-piety/

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The Farrar, Straus, Giroux cover for Tessa Hulls's 'Feeding Ghosts.'

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How much (little) are the AI companies making? and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/accounting-gaffs/

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A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill.

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 carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill. 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 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/27/the-snapper

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The Abrams' Books cover for Bill Griffith's 'Three Rocks.'

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Surveillance is inequality's stabilizer; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/26/autostabilizer/

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: What's a "public internet?"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/25/eurostack/

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The EU flag, with a cluster of blue-tinted fiber optics in its background.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/

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A busy 1950s grocery store. The scene has been altered: the massive, menacing, glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' hovers over the store, shooting red beams into the cash register. The store -- but not the shoppers at its front -- is suffused with red light.

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 busy 1950s grocery store. The scene has been altered: the massive, menacing, glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' hovers over the store, shooting red beams into the cash register. The store -- but not the shoppers at its front -- is suffused with red light. 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 · 4 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The case for a Canadian wealth tax; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/

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A gilt-roofed, gabled mansion with a hole chopped in its side. From within glitters a weath of gold coins. In the foreground stands a lumberjack, swinging an axe at the mansion. The background is a blown-up, half-toned late 20th century Canadian $50 bill.

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 4 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/21/1060-west-addison

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The Grove Atlantic cover for Daniel de Visé's 'The Blues Brothers.'

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/

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The Crown Books cover for Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People.'