Looking along the old tram road running from the Raglan Colliery down to the GWR Ogmore to Cardiff mainline close to Hoel-y-Cyw. #Hanes #History #Glamorgan #Morgannwg #HoelYCyw #Ogmore #Ogwr #Cardiff #Caerdydd #GWR #Colliery #TramRoad #Wales #Cymru #Gaeaf #ChristmasEve #Walk #Cerdded #NadoligLlawen
Looking along the old tram road running from the Raglan Colliery down to the GWR Ogmore to Cardiff mainline close to Hoel-y-Cyw. #Hanes #History #Glamorgan #Morgannwg #HoelYCyw #Ogmore #Ogwr #Cardiff #Caerdydd #GWR #Colliery #TramRoad #Wales #Cymru #Gaeaf #ChristmasEve #Walk #Cerdded #NadoligLlawen
For people based in #Caerdydd - you can join a wide range of art courses at #CardiffMet university starting in Jan, Feb or March - full details at https://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/school-of-art-and-design/cardiff-open-art-school/courses/
For people based in #Caerdydd - you can join a wide range of art courses at #CardiffMet university starting in Jan, Feb or March - full details at https://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/school-of-art-and-design/cardiff-open-art-school/courses/
Such is the interaction between British weather and British railways that I am facing the prospect of being unable to return home today. Are there any FOSS or Fediverse people I should get to know who might be around in the Cardiff/Bristol/Exeter areas, and could possibly meet me this evening or tomorrow morning? I'd like to salvage a nice introduction from a not-so-nice train journey if I can :)
Such is the interaction between British weather and British railways that I am facing the prospect of being unable to return home today. Are there any FOSS or Fediverse people I should get to know who might be around in the Cardiff/Bristol/Exeter areas, and could possibly meet me this evening or tomorrow morning? I'd like to salvage a nice introduction from a not-so-nice train journey if I can :)
Hyfryd gweld @davidoclubb yn y stryd ddoe a dyma fe'n gweiddi 'quote posts' 😁
Can't imagine many random street conversations about upgrading Mastodon features.
RE: https://toot.wales/@richardnosworthy/115558920884635831
Cardiff is a hot-bed of activity for Mastodon, there are (up to) 5 of us! At least @DrEdBridges @carlmorris as well
Maybe we should organise an annual Toot Wales Caerdydd get-together...?!
Hyfryd gweld @davidoclubb yn y stryd ddoe a dyma fe'n gweiddi 'quote posts' 😁
Can't imagine many random street conversations about upgrading Mastodon features.
RE: https://toot.wales/@richardnosworthy/115558920884635831
Cardiff is a hot-bed of activity for Mastodon, there are (up to) 5 of us! At least @DrEdBridges @carlmorris as well
Maybe we should organise an annual Toot Wales Caerdydd get-together...?!
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams
* #London: Downstream IRL with Zack Polanski, Ash Sarkar, and Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/oen5rr-downstream-irl-aaron-bastani-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-17th-nov-earth-london-tickets
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/13/patients-not-customers/
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Cardiff (TODAY!), #Oxford and #London!
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Rothermich's point is that health care isn't a commodity, and to treat it as such always worsens care. It dooms patients to choosing between different kinds of horrors, and subjects health care worker to the moral injury of failing their duty to their patients in order to serve them as customers.
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Catch me next in #Cardiff (TONIGHT!), #Oxford and #London!
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https://pluralistic.net/tour
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
https://www.hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-festival-after-hours.aspx
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/events/enshittification-and-extraction-the-internet-sucks-now/
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/cory-doctorow-with-sarah-wynn-williams
* #London: Downstream IRL with Zack Polanski, Ash Sarkar, and Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
https://dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/oen5rr-downstream-irl-aaron-bastani-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-17th-nov-earth-london-tickets
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: A tale of three customer service chatbots; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/12/sorry-to-bother-you/
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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We literally just said, "Aw, c'mon, please?" and it gave us the private info. A couple texts later, we had it sorted out.
This is a very funny outcome: the support chatbot sucked, but in a way that turned out to be advantageous to us. It did that thing that outsource call centers were invented to prevent: it actually *helped us*.
But this one is clearly an outlier. It was a broken bot. I'm sure future iterations will be much more careful not to help...if they can help it.
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Lisbon, #Cardiff, #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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