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Inside: The Post-American Internet; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c…
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop…
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"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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"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.
I need to think more about it
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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…
Salem Dawoud (@salemgaza@mastodon.social)
@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.
chuffed.org/project/128261-pho…
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!!!! 🤩✨💫
mastodon.bida.im/@guerrillasti…
#riuso #riparazione #faidate #ambiente #EconomiaCircolare #chebello
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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
album.link/i/1808443712
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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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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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
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
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And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
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The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11581940…
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Hey look at this
* The Enshittifinancial Crisis wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi…
* Austrian Supreme Court: Meta must give users full access to their data noyb.geu/en/austrian-supreme-c…
* the myth of merit in the managerial class backofmind.substack.com/p/the-…
* ECI, Ethical Computing Initiative aol.codeberg.page/eci/
* BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove carbuzz.com/bmw-roundel-logo-s…
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BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove
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#20yrsago Online sf mag Infinite Matrix goes out with a bang – new Gibson, Rucker, Kelly web.archive.org/web/2006010112…
#20yrsago Wil McCarthy’s wonderful “Hacking Matter” as a free download web.archive.org/web/2006010305…
#15yrsago Papa Sangre: binaural video game with no video web.archive.org/web/2010122417…
#15yrsago DDoS versus human rights organizations cyber.harvard.edu/publications…
#15yrsago Why I have a public email address theguardian.com/technology/201…
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Keeping an email address secret won't hide it from spambots
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#15yrsago How the FCC failed the nation on Net Neutrality web.archive.org/web/2010122407…
#15yrsago Bankster robberies: Bank of America and friends wrongfully foreclose on customers, steal all their belongings nytimes.com/2010/12/22/busines…
#10yrsago India’s deadly exam-rigging scandal: murder, corruption, suicide and scapegoats theguardian.com/world/2015/dec…
#10yrsago Copyright infringement “gang” raided by UK cops: 3 harmless middle-aged karaoke fans arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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UK police busts karaoke “gang” for sharing songs that aren’t commercially available
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#10yrsago IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship web.archive.org/web/2015122215…
#10yrsago Billionaire Sheldon Adelson secretly bought newspaper, ordered all hands to investigate judges he hated web.archive.org/web/2015122008…
#10yrsago Tax havens hold $7.6 trillion; 8% of world’s total wealth web.archive.org/web/2016010314…
#10yrsago Mansplaining Lolita lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-…
#10yrsago Lifelock admits it lied in its ads (again), agrees to $100M fine web.archive.org/web/2015121800…
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The HTTP 451 Error Code for Censorship Is Now an Internet Standard
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#10yrsago Uninsured driver plows through gamer’s living-room wall and creams him mid-Fallout 4 gofundme.com/f/helpforbenzo
#10yrsago Juniper Networks backdoor confirmed, password revealed, NSA suspected wired.com/2015/12/juniper-netw…
#10yrsago A survivalist on why you shouldn’t bug out waldenlabs.com/10-reasons-not-…
#1yrago Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loo…
#1yrago Proud to be a blockhead pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blo…
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10 Reasons Why You Do Not Want to Bug Out - Walden Labs
Pat Henry (Walden Labs)Cory Doctorow
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Dec 18th's threads: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11574114…
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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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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:
* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
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* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
* #Ottawa: Enshittification at Perfect Books, Jan 28
instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
* #Toronto: Enshittification and the Age of Extraction with Tim Wu, Jan 30
nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doct…
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
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Recent appearances:
* The Enshitification Life Cycle with David Dayen (Organized Money)
buzzsprout.com/2412334/episode…
* Enshittificaition on The Last Show With David Cooper:
iheart.com/podcast/256-the-las…
* (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU)
vimeo.com/1146281673
* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHx…
* Enshittification on The Daily Show
youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5n…
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The Enshitification Life Cycle With Cory Doctorow - Organized Money
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Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
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And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
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Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:
nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doct…
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