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Inside: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop…
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An Italian journalist's car was destroyed by an explosive device.
An explosive device detonated under the vehicle of prominent Italian investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci overnight, as it was parked outside his home, without causing casualties, his investigative television news show announced on Friday
Italian leader Giorgia Meloni denounced it as a 'serious act of intimidation.'
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#SigfridoRanucci #Italy #Journalism #Ranucci #Media #Reporting #GiorgiaMeloni
An Italian journalist's car was destroyed by an explosive device.
An explosive device detonated under the vehicle of prominent Italian investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci overnight, as it was parked outside his home, without causing casualties, his investigative television news show …Le Monde
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L'attivista italiano Lorenzo Agostino, compagno di flottiglia, ha descritto come Greta sia stata umiliata in modo sistematico: bendata, ammanettata con ferri troppo stretti che le segavano i polsi, lasciata al gelo per ore senza un sorso d'acqua, in un trattamento che evoca le tattiche di un gruppo terroristico – ironia amara, considerando che Israele si autoproclama vittima.
Testimoni oculari confermano che l'hanno colpita ripetutamente, tirandole i capelli e costringendola a gesti contro la sua volontà, in celle infestate da cimici dove è stata buttata come spazzatura, obbligata a sedere su superfici dure per periodi interminabili, un'arma psicologica per annientare la resistenza. Queste non sono "perquisizioni necessarie": sono torture severe, paragonate apertamente ai crimini nazisti da Çelik stesso, un'eco orrenda che rivela l'ipocrisia di un regime che piange l'Olocausto mentre lo replica contro innocenti.
Greta, "solo una bambina" come l'ha definita un testimone, è stata picchiata, umiliata e violata in modi che gridano vendetta – un monito velenoso a chiunque osi portare aiuti a Gaza. Questo orrore su una giovane donna disarmata non è difesa: è barbarie pura, un crimine contro l'umanità che macchia per sempre l'anima di Israele e dei suoi complici silenziosi». poliversity.it/@emama/11532215…
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Folks, Salem needs a tent.
Thanks to your help, we were able to help him evacuate to the South last week during our Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal but we could not get him enough to also get a tent.
He’s now sharing a tent with another family and things are difficult.
Please help if you can and please share it so others can help also.
This is a link to his fundraiser: gofund.me/03d81d6e
And he is on Gaza Verified: gaza-verified.org
Thank you!
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#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #mutualAid #fediAid #FreePalestine mastodon.social/@salemgaza/115…
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@aral @joy I have evacuated to the south and am currently staying in my friend’s tent, but he is starting to feel uncomfortable because of the limited space. I beg you from the bottom of my heart to help me buy a tent for myself and my children.Salem Dawoud (Mastodon)
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Friends, today I face a challenge. My sister urgently needs her treatment — $160 covers her medicine for one week. Who will step up and help us make it happen today? Every dollar counts, and together we can give her the care she desperately needs. I believe in the power of community, and I know someone out there will be the first to answer this call. Please, if you can, be the reason she gets her treatment this week.
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No One Should Starve for Being Born Here
My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza. Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror. I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the sense of stability that once grounded me.Chuffed
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Folks, Eslam is one of our new members.
She is, herself, in Egypt but her family are based in Gaza.
Please help if you can and share.
This is her fundraiser: chuffed.org/project/128261-pho…
And she is on Gaza Verified: gaza-verified.org
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#Gaza #GazaVerified #mutualAid #fediAid
No One Should Starve for Being Born Here
My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza. Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror. I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the sense of stability that once grounded me.Chuffed
gofund.me/7fc0e346
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❗️❗️Purtroppo non potrò partecipare: per questo metto a disposizione il mio #PassStampa a chi fosse interessato. Se ti/vi serve, scrivimi e lo giro io.
Mercoledì e giovedì prossimi (10–11 settembre) #Berlino si trasformerà nel centro dell’#IntelligenzaArtificiale: sono attesi oltre 8.000 ospiti al #BIGBANGKIFESTIVAL presso la #AlteMünze (Molkenmarkt 31, 10179 Berlino) – il più grande evento #B2B d’#Europa dedicato all’#IA.
Il festival non è un convegno specialistico per pochi esperti, ma 1/n
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rende l’IA accessibile a un vasto pubblico: #imprenditori, #politica, #cultura, #media e #sport si incontrano per mostrare come l’#IntelligenzaArtificiale stia cambiando la nostra vita quotidiana, l’#economia e la #società.
Sul palco si alterneranno #figure di primo piano di #OpenAI, #Google, #SAP, #NVIDIA e molti altri #protagonisti della #tecnologia – insieme a voci note e #decisoripolitici, tra cui:
📍Karsten Wildberger (#MinistroperilDigitale)
📍Verona Pooth
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📍Jan Josef Liefers
📍Richard David Precht
📍Felix Kroos
📍Prof. Karl Lauterbach
📍Carsten Schneider (#MinistrodellAmbiente)
📍Christian Dürr (leader FDP)
📍Gregor Gysi
Il portale di prenotazione sarà attivo solo fino a lunedì alle ore 12.00!
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O meglio, vuoi aprire una attività di ricezione? Apri la partita iva tesoro e rispetta le norme di sicurezza. E poi ti fai vedere, non lasci le chiavi dentro quelle dannate minicassaforti che ti esimono dal presentarti ad aprire e mostrare la casa. Non è che dobbiamo diventare amici, è una compravendita vacanziera, ma almeno lo sbattimento di muovere il culo puoi anche farlo.
Non ti garba quanto sopra?
Tieni gli appartamenti sfitti apposta?
Te li tasso come la morte, vediamo quanta voglia hai di continuare a fare lo stronzo.
Il b&b non esiste più. Forse forse in paesini sperduti trovi ancora chi ti affitta una stanza di casa sua e ti siedi con lui a fare colazione, pane burro e marmellata (o cipolle e formaggio di capra, a seconda di quanto a est ci si sposta in Europa).
Tutto il resto è falsità
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Il sito #fightchatcontrol è stato tradotto in italiano da @pietro395 e ora non avete più scuse
L'UE vuole (ancora) scansionare
i tuoi messaggi e le tue foto private con #chatcontrol!
Siamo di fronte al più vasto programma di spionaggio dell'Unione Europea. Se volete far sentire la vostra voce, visitate questo sito:
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.fightchatcontrol.eu
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Ma questa è una cosa bellissima!!!! 🤩✨💫
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#riuso #riparazione #faidate #ambiente #EconomiaCircolare #chebello
"Riprendiamoci il diritto di riparare!
Aiutarci a far arrivare questo manifesto in ogni laboratorio, hackerspace e garage di tutto il mondo!"
(#IFIXIT)Manifesto Autoriparazione
Riprendiamoci il nostro diritto di riparazione! Aiutaci a far pubblicare questo manifesto in ogni workshop, hacker space e garage nel mondo!iFixit
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Risultati SORPRENDENTI da un nuovo studio su Nature Neuroscience: la sola vista di un malato attiva il sistema immunitario prima del contatto fisico. Immergiamoci in questa ricerca che ci offre un punto di vista veramente particolare. 🧪 1/7www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neural anticipation of virtual...
Neural anticipation of virtual infection triggers an immune response - Nature Neuroscience
Serino et al. show that seeing an infectious avatar approach the body in virtual reality triggers an immune response, indicating that the brain prepares the body to fight infections even for perceived, but not real, threats.Nature
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I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/uns…
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"To make changes, you have to exist in society. Yes, the Democratic Party is a weak and pathetic failed gerontocracy, but the Democratic Socialists, the Sunrise Movement, and other political groups that are independent of the Dems but still drag them into doing something good, sometimes, all deserve your support."
I agree. The DSA is trying to fill that gap. We've even started trying to fill the media gap in the SF Bay Area with our own worker-focused online newspaper, called the Bay Area Current - just launched in April. bayareacurrent.com/
Everyone is welcome.
Bay Area Current
Bay Area Current covers the news unabashedly from the left and highlights working-class issues too often ignored by the media.Bay Area Current
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In ritardo, ma non troppo, scopro che #TheCure hanno dato in pasto il loro "Songs of a Lost World" a 24 artisti e remixer da #FourTet passando passando per #Mogwai arrivando agli #Orbital per citare solo quelli che ricordo al volo ma ogni pezzo non è solo reinterpretazione ma una vera e prorpia espansione del lavoro originale.
Mixes of a Lost World
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Mixes Of A Lost World by The Cure
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.Songlink/Odesli
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Make Capitalism Work: The Game
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Nuovo album di Werto: XAOC
Christ On A Crutch: Chaos.
This album rejects sacrifice.
It chooses to save the innocent sacrifical lamb,
while the guilty humanity falls into chaos.
Reveals the ritual of repudiation, war, ritual sacrifice, denied redemption, fragile freedom, and the final descent into XAOC.
Composed and performed on Game Boy DMG. Recorded live direct to Tascam; no mastering applied.
Tracklist:
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الرفض RIPUDIO
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كل حرب OGNI GUERRA (777)
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كل تضحية طقسية OGNI SACRIFICIO RITUALE. (prine 2025)
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البريء L'INNOCENTE (Star of Betlehem)
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لا يُكَفِّر NON ESPIA.
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أنا أُنقِذ الحمل SALVO L'AGNELLO.
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لا أُخَلِّص NON REDIMO
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نفسي ME STESSO
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الدَّم COL SANGUE.
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الحمل يَمْضِي L'AGNELLO VA VIA (vitela)
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حُرًّا، على عُكَّاز LIBERO, SULLA STAMPELLA (berehit 2025)
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فقط العالَم المُذنِب SOLO IL MONDO COLPEVOLE (p 2025)
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يَسقُط في الفَوضى CADE NEL XAOC.
released May 31, 2025
Pixelart illustration by biiterat www.instagram.com/biiterat/
No AI used in any part of this album.
AlphaEvolve di DeepMind non è solo un altro modello AI. È il primo a migliorare sé stesso mentre lavora, risolvendo problemi vecchi 300 anni e liberando potenza di calcolo senza costruire un singolo server. Sta iniziando la fase in cui smettiamo di capire cosa stia succedendo.
#futuroprossimo #AI #AlphaEvolve
futuroprossimo.it/2025/06/alph…
AlphaEvolve: l’AI che migliora sé stessa (e forse tutto il resto)
AlphaEvolve: il sistema innovativo di Google che elimina colli di bottiglia nell'intelligenza artificiale con risultati sorprendenti.Gianluca Riccio (FuturoProssimo)
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- iOS: divested.dev/misc/ios.txt
- GrapheneOS: divested.dev/misc/gos.txt
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![A FIELD GUIDE to CIVIL UNREST 2nd Edition
"Peaceful Protestors"
[QAnon Shaman and Jan 6 MAGA with a "Hang Pence" sign]
"Violent Insurrectionists"
[Non-white woman with a sign that says, "Immigrants are Humans," with a child and tear gas all around them]](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/49293307 "A FIELD GUIDE to CIVIL UNREST 2nd Edition
\"Peaceful Protestors\"
[QAnon Shaman and Jan 6 MAGA with a \"Hang Pence\" sign]
\"Violent Insurrectionists\"
[Non-white woman with a sign that says, \"Immigrants are Humans,\" with a child and tear gas all around them]")
NEW: An Italian parliament inquiry concluded that the Italian government used Paragon's spyware to hack activists working to rescue immigrants.
The committee, however, said it did not find any evidence that Italy's intelligence agencies (nor anyone else) spied on journalist Francesco Cancellato.
The report leaves a this, and other, key questions unanswered.
techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/ital…
Italian lawmakers say Italy used spyware to target phones of immigration activists, but not against journalist | TechCrunch
A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli company’s spyware, Graphite.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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Perché non sei un burattino?
Oggi per @repubblica
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Dovrebbero però domandarsi anche quali siano stati i frutti raccolti in termini di allontanamento dei partiti dai problemi reali delle persone.
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Mi piace tanto da provare quasi gelosia nel condividerla
Christians even pay Israël to help with the genocide and kick Palestinians of their land on the Westbank… to make room for settlers.
Jesus would be totally fine with killing children, and stealing land. Genocide apparently is awesome if Israel does it.
Christianity is a scary religion.
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Here's the Youtube version without the cropping:
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- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Jerry Lewis's "The Day the Clown Cried" discovered in Sweden after 53 years
Link: thenationalnews.com/arts-cultu…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Controversial 'lost' Jerry Lewis film discovered in Sweden after 53 years
A Swedish actor, who stole a copy in 1980, plans to release The Day The Clown Cried, saying 'it must be seen'William Mullally (The National)
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CSS Minecraft
Link: benjaminaster.com/css-minecraf…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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Mo mi sento sporco.
Scusa Darwin, scusa Gesù non lo faccio più.
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Madison, CT; #Hamburg and #Denver!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI: My speech for U Washington's Neuroscience, AI and Society lecture series.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11566747…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-05 14:39:53
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Politics and Capitalist Stagnation unpopularfront.news/p/politics…
* An Analysis of the Proposed Spirit Financial-Credit Union 1 Merger chipfilson.com/2025/12/an-anal…
* Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales theguardian.com/environment/20…
* After Years of Controversy, EU Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/afte…
* How dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…
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How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Haunted Mansion papercraft model adds crypts and gates haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/…
#20yrsago Print your own Monopoly money web.archive.org/web/2005120203…
#15yrsago Bunnie explains the technical intricacies and legalities of Xbox hacking bunniestudios.com/blog/2010/us…
#15yrsago How Pac Man’s ghosts decide what to do: elegant complexity web.archive.org/web/2010120504…
#15yrsago Glorious, elaborate, profane insults of the world reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comment…
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Hasbro
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Walt Disney World castmembers speak about their search for a living wage youtube.com/watch?v=f5BMQ3xQc7…
#15yrsago Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain’s proposed copyright law web.archive.org/web/2014072323…
#15yrsago Cities made of broken technology web.archive.org/web/2010120313…
#10yrsago The TPP’s ban on source-code disclosure requirements: bad news for information security eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/tpp-…
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EE UU ejecutó un plan para conseguir una ley antidescargas
EL PAÍSCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Fossil fuel divestment sit-in at MIT President’s office hits 10,000,000,000-hour mark twitter.com/FossilFreeMIT/stat…
#10yrsago Hacker dumps United Arab Emirates Invest Bank’s customer data dailydot.com/news/invest-bank-…
#10yrsago Illinois prisons spy on prisoners, sue them for rent on their cells if they have any money chicagotribune.com/2015/11/30/…
#10yrsago Free usability help for privacy toolmakers superbloom.design/learning/blo…
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After asking UAE bank for $3 million ransom, hacker dumps tens of thousands of customers' transactions history online
Kevin Collier (The Daily Dot)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago In the first 334 days of 2015, America has seen 351 mass shootings (and counting) web.archive.org/web/2015120900…
#10yrsago Not even the scapegoats will go to jail for BP’s murder of the Gulf Coast arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#10yrsago Urban Transport Without the Hot Air: confusing the issue with relevant facts! memex.craphound.com/2015/12/03…
#5yrsago Breathtaking Iphone hack pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/min…
#5yrsago Graffitists hit dozens of NYC subway cars pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/min…
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Manslaughter charges dropped in BP spill case—nobody from BP will go to prison
David Kravets (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago The Ministry For the Future pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/min…
#5yrsago Monopolies made America vulnerable to covid pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/min…
#5yrsago Section 230 is Good, Actually pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kaw…
#5yrsago Postmortem of the NYPD's murder of a Black man pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kaw…
#5yrsago Student debt trap pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kaw…
#1yrago "That Makes Me Smart" pluralistic.net/2024/12/04/its…
#1yrago Canada sues Google pluralistic.net/2024/12/03/cle…
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Pluralistic: 03 Dec 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Wednesday's threads: A year in illustration (2025 edition); and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11565763…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-12-03 20:56:34
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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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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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Upcoming appearances:
* Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute), Dec 8
davidgraeber.institute/poetic-…
* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…
* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
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David Graeber Institute - Poetic technologies with Cory Doctorow and Brian Eno
koshika (David Graeber Institute)Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification (Future Knowledge)
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/…
* We have become slaves to Silicon Valley (Politics JOE)
youtube.com/watch?v=JzEUvh1r5-…
* How Enshittification is Destroying The Internet (Frontline Club)
youtube.com/watch?v=oovsyzB9L-…
* Escape Forward with Cristina Caffarra
escape-forward.com/2025/11/27/…
* Why Every Platform Betrays You (Trust Revolution)
fountain.fm/episode/bJgdt0hJAn…
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Future Knowledge | Enshittification
Future KnowledgeCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Madison, CT; #Hamburg and #Denver!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I love this succinct definer: "classical social democratic politics—the era of generous redistribution and worker protections"
From the Ganz "Politics and Capitalist Stagnation" article linked in your post.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •If you can, read this absolute banger of a post from @pluralistic about AI, what’s behind the bubble, and what it means for all of us in the context of #classwar! mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11566747…
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2025-12-05 14:40:33
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Such a great piece! Looking forward to the book too!
It hit so many things that are so important, I particularly like this part
#AI #AISlop
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James Fairbairn
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oh nice analogy! Coincidentally I just spammed out a thread about the category mistake and how it leads us (or at least, AI researchers and some AI "critics") to worry about something that will never happen, instead of the thing that has already been happening forever
mastodon.exitmusic.world/@jame…
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James Fairbairn (Mastodon)kleines Filmröllchen 📞5534
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Great speech, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves:
> The AI Safety people say they are worried that AI is going to end the world
I’m just going to stop you right there and point you to some of Robert Miles’s essays: youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI
because it’s not about that, and he (much better than I could) will give you several reasons to care about AI Safety before AGI is even plausible.
Robert Miles AI Safety
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Thanks for sharing this and I will take a look.
I will say I think what is important and that Cory raises quite well is understanding the power dynamics of this, which is we need more unions and more negotiation on this from the workers side that is the true safety to the workers no matter the industry.
Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Paused to say, AI doing imaging evaluations has worried me since I first heard of it, and now you have given a whole other ($ milking) shape to the concern, and I don't know how to finish this thought.
Nightmares ahead.
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Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •1. Buying the book the second it comes out.
2. "Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market ...""
My jaw just hit the floor. This pop! is going to hurt.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •When does "alternative money" just become the equivalent of worthless coal town company scrip?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_…
Coal barons **hated** FDR for outlawing company scrip in 1938.
dol.gov/general/aboutdol/histo…
Now company scrip is back again. With all its pernicious uses.
When a company can fire you just before you vest your stock options, were you really paid for all that under-the-table overtime?
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Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage
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uis
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •> And I'm here to tell you they are wrong:w rong because
Typo
Cory Doctorow
in reply to uis • • •Paul Walker
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •baibold
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The saddest part about losing sectoral bargaining is that the only way we're going to successfully campaign to get it back is a full general strike, where *every* sector shuts down with the specific demand to repeal Taft-Hartley.
It ties back into how in a world of perfect law enforcement, social progress becomes impossible. The optimal amount of crime in society is not 0.
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Fitz Bushnell
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"It's because in a creative market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two mobile app stores, and a single company that controls all the ebooks and audiobooks, giving a creative worker extra rights to bargain with is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money."
I gotta work that into a conversation sometime soon.
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Fitz Bushnell
in reply to Fitz Bushnell • • •Plus:
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok."
Evocative enough to make me cough.
Orion (he/him)
in reply to Fitz Bushnell • • •John Griffith
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I need to think more about it