Cory Doctorow
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Just finished @pluralistic 's #enshitification after hearing him and Tim Wu in #Oxford !
Just finished @pluralistic 's #enshitification after hearing him and Tim Wu in #Oxford !
hamish campbell
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Leadership in the Era of Quantum and AI – A Reaction
This lecture was framed as leadership in a time of economic, social, and environmental crisis. In reality, it was a performance, a ritual reaffirmation of the system that generated those crises. A talk about “leadership” steeped in the language of inevitability, technological salvation, and corporate myth-making.
The speaker, Muhtar Kent - Coca-Cola executive, delivered a brand sermon for the young acolytes of the #deathcult. Unconsciously or not, he was selling the two current hype […]
⁂ Article
Leadership in the Era of Quantum and AI – A Reaction
This lecture was framed as leadership in a time of economic, social, and environmental crisis. In reality, it was a performance, a ritual reaffirmation of the system that generated those crises. A talk about “leadership” steeped in the language of inevitability, technological salvation, and corporate myth-making.
The speaker, Muhtar Kent - Coca-Cola executive, delivered a brand sermon for the young acolytes of the #deathcult. Unconsciously or not, he was selling the two current hype […]
Cory Doctorow
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The Oxford Internet Institute has published a video of the talk that @pluralistic and Professor Tim Wu did the other night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkYxMQJ9c94 #Oxford #Enshittification #OxfordInternetInstitute
Professor Tim Wu and @pluralistic's talk in Oxford tonight was definitely interesting.
Coming from the hacker world and _not_ the academic world, it was a bit of a different vibe from other talks on this sort of topic that I've attended, but it was definitely interesting hearing from the other attendees.
In fact, as someone who's already very familiar with Cory and his work, it was almost _more_ interesting to talk to the academic folks about their experiences, perspectives, and thoughts on the talk.
The Oxford Internet Institute has published a video of the talk that @pluralistic and Professor Tim Wu did the other night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkYxMQJ9c94 #Oxford #Enshittification #OxfordInternetInstitute
Tim Chambers
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Professor Tim Wu and @pluralistic's talk in Oxford tonight was definitely interesting.
Coming from the hacker world and _not_ the academic world, it was a bit of a different vibe from other talks on this sort of topic that I've attended, but it was definitely interesting hearing from the other attendees.
In fact, as someone who's already very familiar with Cory and his work, it was almost _more_ interesting to talk to the academic folks about their experiences, perspectives, and thoughts on the talk.
Professor Tim Wu and @pluralistic's talk in Oxford tonight was definitely interesting.
Coming from the hacker world and _not_ the academic world, it was a bit of a different vibe from other talks on this sort of topic that I've attended, but it was definitely interesting hearing from the other attendees.
In fact, as someone who's already very familiar with Cory and his work, it was almost _more_ interesting to talk to the academic folks about their experiences, perspectives, and thoughts on the talk.
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Cardiff (TONIGHT!), #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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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!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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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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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Cardiff (TONIGHT!), #Oxford and #London!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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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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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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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
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Full schedule with dates and links at:
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