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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: No one wants to read your AI slop; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
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No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it privately.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11615885…
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Cory Doctorow
2026-03-02 09:24:05
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Enshittificator vimeo.com/1168468796
* Digital products are worsening but the trend can be reversed forbrukerradet.no/news-in-engl…
* Distribution of US Wealth 1989- federalreserve.gov/releases/z1… equities and mutual fund shares;demographic:networth;population:1,3,5,7,9;units:shares;range:1990.4,2023.1
* After decades of debating the scientific publishing crisis, it's time to decide bjoern.brembs.net/2026/02/afte…
* Disney Parks History in Documents disneydocs.net/
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Digital products and services are getting worse – but the trend can be reversed
Andreas Framnes (Forbrukerrådet)Cory Doctorow
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#25yrsago Web loggers bare their souls web.archive.org/web/2001032118…
#20yrsago Fight AOL/Yahoo’s email tax! web.archive.org/web/2006030315…
#20yrsago Long-lost Penn and Teller videogame for download waxy.org/2006/02/penn_tellers_…
#20yrsago Aussie gov’t report on DRM: Don’t let it override public rights! web.archive.org/web/2006081319…
#20yrsago BBC: “File sharing is not theft” news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes…
#15yrsago Hollywood’s conservatism: why no one wants to make a “risky” movie web.archive.org/web/2011030508…
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Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors - Waxy.org
Andy Baio (Waxy.org)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Eldritch Effulgence: HP Lovecraft’s favorite words arkhamarchivist.com/wordcount-…
#15yrsago Exposing the Big Wisconsin Lie about “subsidized public pensions” web.archive.org/web/2011022420…
#15yrsago Taxonomy of social mechanics in multiplayer games raphkoster.com/wp-content/uplo…
#15yrsago San Francisco before the great fire: rare, public domain 1906 video archive.org/details/TripDownMa…
#15yrsago Ebook readers’ bill of rights web.archive.org/web/2011030822…
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Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire, A (DV25 version) : Miles Brothers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet ArchiveCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago 500,000 to 1M unemployed Americans will lose food aid next month web.archive.org/web/2016022902…
#10yrsago FBI claims it has no records of its decision to delete its recommendation to encrypt your phone techdirt.com/2016/02/29/fbi-cl…
#10yrsago A hand-carved wooden clock that scribes the time on a magnetic board youtube.com/watch?v=WEbmYp5VVc…
#10yrsago Press looks the other way as thousands march for Sanders in 45+ cities web.archive.org/web/2016031410…
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FBI Claims It Has No Record Of Why It Deleted Its Recommendation To Encrypt Phones
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Crapgadget apocalypse: the IoT devices that punch through your firewall and expose your network krebsonsecurity.com/2016/02/th…
#10yrsago Found debauchery: cavorting bros and a pyramid of beer on a found 1971 Super-8 reel youtube.com/watch?v=xAobW4PtoM…
#10yrsago Trump could make the press great again, all they have to do is their jobs zocalopublicsquare.org/donald-…
#10yrsago Federal judge rules US government can’t force Apple to make a security-breaking tool eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/gove…
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Donald Trump Could Make the Media Great Again
Dan Gillmor (Zócalo Public Square)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Black students say Donald Trump had them removed before his speech web.archive.org/web/2016030209…
#10yrsago Red Queen’s Race: Disney parks are rolling out surge pricing with 20% premiums on busy days memex.craphound.com/2016/03/01…
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Report: Donald Trump Requested That a Group of Black Students Be Removed From His Rally Before It Had Even Started
Brendan O'Connor (Gawker)Cory Doctorow
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Saturday's threads: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11614803…
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Cory Doctorow
2026-02-28 11:32:55
Cory Doctorow
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Cory Doctorow
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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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
rebootcommunications.com/event…
* #Victoria: Enshittification at Russell Books, Mar 4
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-…
* #SanFrancisco: Launch for Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights), Mar 10
citylights.com/events/cindy-co…
* #Barcelona: Enshittification with Simona Levi/Xnet (Llibreria Finestres), Mar 20
llibreriafinestres.com/evento/…
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Cory Doctorow is coming to Victoria!
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Berkeley: Bioneers keynote, Mar 27
conference.bioneers.org/
* #Montreal: Bronfman Lecture (McGill) Apr 10
eventbrite.ca/e/artificial-int…
* #Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sp…
* #Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-d…
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Bioneers 2026 Conference - Bioneers Conference
Bioneers ConferenceCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
howthelightgetsin.org/festival…
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Big Ideas
HowTheLightGetsIn - The World's Leading Philosophy and Music FestivalCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Should Democrats Make A Nuremberg Caucus? (Make It Make Sense)
youtube.com/watch?v=MWxKrnNfrl…
* Making The Internet Suck Less (Thinking With Mitch Joel)
sixpixels.com/podcast/archives…
* Panopticon :3 (Trashfuture)
patreon.com/posts/panopticon-3…
* America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity (Do Not Pass Go)
donotpassgo.ca/p/americas-ensh…
* Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It, with Tim Wu (Ezra Klein)
nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion…
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America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity
Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak (Do Not Pass Go)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Imagine you write fairly difficult code and get bombarded with PRs from people who aren't invested enough to begin to learn the computer language the project is written in, or how anything works.
AI is causing serious conflict and erosion in FOSS communities.
oscarfalcon
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Question: has someone sent you their slop-i chatbot shit to try to gain favour?
(I would be pissed if someone did that to me, I would cut them off completely...)
Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Strange New Words (Adam)
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