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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/

#Pluralistic

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.

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John 🎵

@johnoestmannmusic@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic one of the worst parts of this (among many worst parts) is the aggressive gaslighting around it:
"Ignore the real numbers around AI. If you don't believe us (and use our product), then you will lose your job, and be a relic of the past!"

David S. Reed

@DavidReed@mastodon.online · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic Time to drop the pretense of cyber, and admit we read @pluralistic for FiscalPunk.

oscarfalcon

@oscarfalcon@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic

This sentence perfectly encapsulates the ordeal of 'hey aye':
"the asbestos in the walls of our high-tech civilization"..

-(chef's kiss).

Dźwiedziu

@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic
The short answer to the question posed is “yes”.

By which I mean “actually no”.

Angela "Ge" Ricci

@gericci@indieweb.social · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic In the beginning of the post, there's a typo "'If there's one are(a) where ..."
I love your work!

CyberFrog

@froge@social.glitched.systems · 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic@mamot.fr hey, just a heads up, your new bot filtering software is breaking firefox with noscript enabled for some reason

this seems to be because of the 301 redirects which attempt to set a deflect_session cookie, which firefox + noscript strips on page reload as far as I can tell, causing an infinite reload loop

I fixed it by pre-allowing your website in noscript before the page even loads, but I'm guessing this is new because it hasn't really happened to me before on your site