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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The online community trilemma; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/

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An early 20th century photo of a mixed-gender group of people drinking in a working-class bar; with a smiling woman in the center. It has been altered: a nova-haloed thought bubble coming from the center woman's head reveals that she is daydreaming of a salon in which three upper class women in flapper-era outfits are chattering. A Prince Albert ad in the background has had the Reddit robot mascot matted into it.

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Pluralistic: The online community trilemma (16 Feb 2026)

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social · activity timestamp 2 months ago

@pluralistic small correction: the paper is from 2022 already, but Mako blogged about it just now 🙂

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 months ago

The online community trilemma: Reach, community and information, pick two.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116079347423631248

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 months ago

Hey look at this

* A year in, it’s official: Americans, not foreigners, are paying for Trump’s tariffs https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/12/business/trump-tariffs-consumers-nightcap

* How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-maria-antonia-guerra-story

* In 1984 An Unemployed Ice Cream Truck Driver Memorized A Game Show's Secret Winning Formula. He Then Went On The Show… https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/in-1984-a-man-memorized-a-game-shows-secret-formula-and-won-a-fortune/

* Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

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In 1984, An Unemployed Ice Cream Truck Driver Memorized A Game Show's Secret Winning Formula. He Then Went On The Show…

Imagine you've called in sick from work and are watching a marathon of your favorite daytime game show. After the third straight hour of starring a...

Ars Technica

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.

CNN

A year in, it’s official: Americans, not foreigners, are paying for Trump’s tariffs | CNN Business

A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York confirms what economists have long warned about: The burden of tariffs is borne almost entirely by the people living in the country that imposes them.

ProPublica

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention

A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 months ago

#25yrsago O'Reilly P2P Conference https://web.archive.org/web/20010401001205/https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41850,00.html

#20yrsago Sony DRM Debacle roundup Part VI https://memex.craphound.com/2006/02/14/sony-drm-debacle-roundup-part-vi/

#20yrsago Bruce Sterling on Sony DRM debacle https://web.archive.org/web/20060316133726/https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/posts.html?pg=5

#20yrsago ENIAC co-inventor dishes dirt, debunks myths https://web.archive.org/web/20060218064519/https://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2006/0,4814,108568,00.html

#20yrsago HBO targets PVRs https://thomashawk.com/2006/02/hbos-harrasment-of-pvr-owners.html

#20yrsago Princeton DRM researchers release Sony debacle paper https://web.archive.org/web/20060222235419/https://itpolicy.princeton.edu/pub/sonydrm-ext.pdf

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HBO’s Harrasment of PVR Owners

Q&A;: A lost interview with ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert - Computerworld

In a recently discovered interview, released on the 60th anniversary of the first ENIAC demonstration, co-inventor J. Presper Eckert explodes some myths and explains why he may have been "uniquely prepared" for the historic project.

Wired 14.02: Posts

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Sony DRM Debacle roundup Part VI

P2P Goes in Search of 'Doogle'

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Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 2 months ago

#20yrsago HOWTO run Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion https://web.archive.org/web/20060208213048/http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/2005/08/_latest_populat.html

#20yrsago RIAA: CD ripping isn’t fair use https://web.archive.org/web/20060216233008/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004409.php

#15yrsago “Psychic” cancels show due to “unforeseen circumstances” https://web.archive.org/web/20110217050619/https://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/02/irony.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&utm_medium=rss

#15yrsago CBS sends a YouTube takedown to itself https://web.archive.org/web/20110218201102/https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/flktg/cbs_files_a_copyright_claim_against_themselves_o_o/

#15yrsago Lost luxury: the Boeing 314 flying boat https://web.archive.org/web/20110217144300/http://www.asb.tv/blog/2011/02/boeing-314-flying-boat/

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Vintage Luxury: Boeing 314 Flying Boat in Detail

Often regarded as the pinnacle of flying luxury, the Boeing 314 Clipper could whisk passengers off to such far off places a