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Go crypto, suffer the consequences, by @… -->
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/28/we-live-in-a-society/#rubber-hose-cryptan…

Last year, we featured a lengthy interview with tech journalist/science fiction author
Cory Doctorow about his book,
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It.
The prolific Doctorow is back with a provocative new book that serves as a follow-up of sorts,
focusing on AI and related issues:
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
Doctorow doesn’t actually enjoy talking about AI, but he’s constantly being asked to comme…

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.

@… says here
"If you think that property rights are a tool for achieving human rights, then you're on the left".
I think he's radically wrong. Property rights are incompatible with human rights: you can have one or the other, but not both.

Entertaining and well-reasoned piece from @… on the stupidity and futility of age verification https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/shes…

Today's reading @… s article on surveillance and tech
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/shes-dead-of-course/#consensus-hallu…

'a group of people who refused to acknowledge that other people have perfectly valid reasons for wanting to pursue their own goals rather than yours. We call most of those people "toddlers" and devote sizable social effort to helping them outgrow this belief.
But there's another group of people who carry this belief into adulthood. If they're of regular means, we call those people "bullies". However, if they're sufficiently wealthy, we call them &quo…

Cory Doctorow: Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them
The tech elite are pouring billions into dispensing with inconvenient humans. Now governments want the same trick to wish away the migrants their economies desperately need, writes the author and Nerve columnist

Pluralistic: The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/

Price-fixing cartels are driving up the cost of living for all Americans, including Trump's base, in order to make oligarchs better off.
Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox: You can keep billionaires happy, or you can fight the cost of living crisis, but not both.
https://pluralistic.net/202…

Pluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p79#a260505p79

»Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion.«
Android becomes a closed platform—or in other words: you don't really own the phone you've bought.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/#i-am-altering-the-deal

This is an astonishingly good essay by @… on #Trump and the #EnergyTransition. I'm not going to bother to select pull-quotes from it -- it's all potential pu…

Cory Doctorow on the AI bubble. https://www.instagram.com/reels/Da3IHttoqAR/

"Fascism and monopolies go hand in hand, and smashing monopolies is key to the program of fighting #fascism." -- @…