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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: A world without people; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/

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The interior of a car, tinted cyberpunk green. The car's steering wheel has been replaced with a vintage Fisher Price steering wheel toy, which has been modified so that the malignant eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' glares out of it, and the Fisher Price logo has been replaced with the Openai wordmark. Through the windscreen rains down a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. In the rear-view mirror, we see the reflected eyes of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar.


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The interior of a car, tinted cyberpunk green. The car's steering wheel has been replaced with a vintage Fisher Price steering wheel toy, which has been modified so that the malignant eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' glares out of it, and the Fisher Price logo has been replaced with the Openai wordmark. Through the windscreen rains down a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. In the rear-view mirror, we see the reflected eyes of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. Image: Matti Blume (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polestar,_GIMS_2018,_Le_Grand-Saconnex_(1X7A1264).jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
The interior of a car, tinted cyberpunk green. The car's steering wheel has been replaced with a vintage Fisher Price steering wheel toy, which has been modified so that the malignant eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' glares out of it, and the Fisher Price logo has been replaced with the Openai wordmark. Through the windscreen rains down a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. In the rear-view mirror, we see the reflected eyes of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. Image: Matti Blume (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polestar,_GIMS_2018,_Le_Grand-Saconnex_(1X7A1264).jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937

And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:

https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/

Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/

And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:

https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937

And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:

https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/

Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/

And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:

https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

A world without people: AI is a promise to wire the boss's toy steering wheel directly into the company's drive-train.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115843023500265780

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Cory Doctorow
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Hey look at this

* Necrosecurity https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/opan-2020-0104/html (h/t Robin Sloan)

* 'Tis the Season to Ensh*ttify the ACM Digital Library https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~tpkelly/grinch.html

* US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/

* How Screen-Time Limits Fail and What Matters More https://www.owenkellogg.com/p/how-screen-time-limits-fail-and-what?hide_intro_popup=true (h/t Marginal Revolution)

* KdK (Kinetik der Kontinua) part 1: Introduction https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/kdk-kinetik-der-kontinua-part-1-introduction

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KdK (Kinetik der Kontinua) part 1: Introduction

Whips, chains, and their possible relevance to space launch

How Screen-Time Limits Fail and What Matters More

Introducing The Compensatory-Use Model
WIRED

US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

#20yrsago Hollywood’s Canadian Member of Parliament https://web.archive.org/web/20060217022615/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1060

#20yrsago IKEA stores make great babysitters, soup-kitchens https://web.archive.org/web/20061107014101/http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,392850,00.html

#20yrsago Deaf geek mods implant-firmware so he can enjoy music again https://web.archive.org/web/20060110053839/https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/bolero_pr.html

#20yrsago Study: Best place to advertise to teens is in-game https://memex.craphound.com/2006/01/04/study-best-place-to-advertise-to-teens-is-in-game/

#20yrsago Misbehavior in Second Life game punished by exile to “the corn field” https://web.archive.org/web/20060209002925/http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/hidden_virtual_world_prison_revealed/

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Clickable Culture - Hidden Virtual-World Prison Revealed

https://memex.craphound.com

Study: Best place to advertise to teens is in-game

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