@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-16 01:11:02
Pluralistic: How the Light Gets In (15 Jan 2026) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/15/how-the-light-gets-in/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p143#a260115p143
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-16 01:11:02
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org2025-12-15 17:02:48
The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/the-plan-is-to-make-the-internet-worse-and-big-tech-rich/
An interesting interview with Cory Doctorow.
@hynek@mastodon.social2025-12-11 06:28:29
I’m somewhat annoyed by big parts of the “AI” discourse (“it’s useless” is patently wrong/wishful thinking and “it’s morally wrong” won’t convince anyone) so this banger by Cory Doctorow was godsend:
> [S]ome people will be on the workers' side because of politics or aesthetics. […] But if you want to win over all the people who benefit from your labor, you need to understand and stress how the products of the AI will be substandard.
@axbom@axbom.me2025-12-13 08:29:43
Cory Doctorow really has a way with words, here explaining enshittification for a mainstream audience – and why it happens. Mastodon gets a shoutout at the end.
https://yt.axbom.com/?id=d2e-c9SF5nE
Sidenote: I'm still fascinated by how the US beeps certain words in their broadcasts. What other countries do this?
https://yt.axbom.com/?id=d2e-c9SF5nE
Sidenote: I'm still fascinated by how the US beeps certain words in their broadcasts. What other countries do this?
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-01-05 18:34:38
@vrandecic@mas.to2025-12-09 16:33:35
Transcript of a talk by Cory Doctorow @… on the topic of AI and its near -term effects on society. Long. Summary of an upcoming book.
Many good thoughts in it, some I haven't found described so well before, some new to me. I'm quite aligned on his points about copyright, and he's tying this up better than I have seen in other places. I don…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-01-12 18:49:09
"There's so many good domestic reasons to do this. Without C-11, Canadian companies could defend their fellow Canadians from American data-theft and cash ripoffs by making alternative clients, jailbreaks, and other add-ons that disenshittified America's defective tech" -- @…
This is good advice to Canada, but it's equally good advise…
@bici@mastodon.social2025-11-07 18:29:09
"Google showing a wall of ads before any real results. Facebook promising to “never spy on you,” before evolving into a mass surveillance apparatus. Amazon’s highest-ranked products buoyed by fake reviews."
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/bo
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-30 07:03:00
39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
US-Plattformen entwickeln sich stetig von der Lösung zum Problem. Im Interview mit heise online nennt Doctorow Wege, wie Staaten und Nutzer sich wehren können.
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2025-12-12 17:57:51
'This is the dark side and true meaning of "business optimization." The optimal business pays its suppliers and workers nothing, and charges its customers everything it can. Obviously, businesses need to settle for suboptimal outcomes, because workers won't show up if they don't get paid, and customers won't buy things that cost everything they have⹋.
⹋ Unless, of course, you are an academic publisher, in which case this is just how you do business.'
…
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-10-31 17:20:18
Esta entrevista es un imperdible para todos a quienes les preocupa el curso de la internet actual, la privacidad y los derechos digitales en general. 10 minutos de lectura que valen la pena.
#Internet #Privacidad #DerechosDigitales
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-12-10 21:37:09
Bluesky and Mastodon mentioned! He's right. Make those billionaires open their platforms and watch them run their websites as they should have in the first place.
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From #Enshittification | The Daily Show
@villavelius@mastodon.online2026-01-11 07:34:46
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de2025-11-18 08:30:15
Delightful 💩: dana boyd, Lee Vinsel & Cory Doctorow on #Enshittification
It feels odd that Cory assumes that platform things were good for a start. Still insightful.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-11-05 17:01:29
Olha, olha, o Doctorow vem a Lisboa. À WebSummit, of all places... 😂 A Grande Festa dos Unicórnios Voadores.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115498150207973391
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-12-08 03:54:21
Everyone with a digital existence needs to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8G-d7SnY Cory Doctorow is on fire. His fluency is astounding - a 'gattling gun of jaw-dropping moments'.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-12 03:35:59
Pluralistic: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 Dec 2025) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/nothing-personal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p156#a251211p156
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.org2025-12-09 16:13:07
Thank you for this, @… ! https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington (Small detail: I do have a different interpretation of Fobazi Et…
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social2025-12-09 13:38:19
I am so glad I am no longer working in the tech industry. It was kinda fun in the "princes of labor" era, but with all the layoffs and mow the AI race to the bottom I can’t imagine it being a good environment.
Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane
by @…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-01 06:00:12
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-01-07 17:21:26
Pluralistic: Writing vs AI (07 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-01 16:51:23
Ireland has been every bit as important in exporting US Big Tech around the world as the US has been.
But Ireland has another key export, one that is confined to the European Union.
Because every tax haven must be a crime haven,
and because Big Tech's favorite crime is illegal surveillance,
Ireland has exported American tech spying to the whole European Union.
-- @…
@mlncn@social.coop2026-01-05 20:16:58
Usually on point, but @… makes a very easily falsifiable claim in this essay, https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-st…
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2025-12-11 15:27:53
Excellent read: why growth stock companies are always desperately pumping up one bubble or another, spending billions to hype the pivot to video, or cryptocurrency, or NFTs, or Metaverse, or AI?
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/
@esoriano@social.linux.pizza2026-01-06 11:52:17
Great talk at ccc by Cory Doctorow
https://youtu.be/39jsstmmUUs
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-31 06:00:19
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-11 03:05:55
Pluralistic: Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition) (10 Jan 2026) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/10/markets-are-regulations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260110/p55#a260110p55
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-11-08 18:01:55
One of those eye-openers from @… .
I actually went to my unused facebook account to publish it there. 'Cause it's there where it's needed the most.
(and on threads and stuff)
https://…
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-12-01 17:09:53
Wow, regulators shouldn't have stock in the companies they regulate, and they certainly shouldn't be subject to binding legal contracts that might curtail their actions.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115645290008746632
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-11-05 17:14:43
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-19 14:35:47
Transform Mozilla from a company to a democratically run collective and see how long management will still be overpaid and hires rentier capitalists.
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115746707589261530
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-31 16:45:16
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-11-28 19:00:13
How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/#post-american-internet
Must read article…
@barijaona@mastodon.mg2025-11-20 19:33:36
"Unauthorized Bread": a novel by Cory Doctorow [long read] (2020)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/?utm_sour…
@sjn@chaos.social2025-12-28 12:42:59
Always awesome to listen to @… at the Chaos Communication Congress! Highlight of the trip as always 😸 #39c3
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-10-20 17:03:23
Must-read "The mad king's digital killswitch"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics
@sean@scoat.es2025-10-23 20:21:50
The event page for @… 's Enshittification book tour stop in #Montreal links to Facebook for full details…
The irony of this is not lost on me.
(See you there, tomorrow, local friends?)
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-30 16:45:12
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-08 21:50:47
Pluralistic: Where did the money go? (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/08/after-the-moneys-gone/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p130#a260108p130
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 19:28:57
When you're a kid, you want to talk about things without your parents, teachers, principals, or (some of) your peers or siblings listening in.
You want to plan things without these people listening in, because they might try and stop you from doing them, or punish you if you succeed.
So, it's worth figuring out how to use new technologies, because the existing ones are riddled with censorship and surveillance back-doors ("parental controls") that can be deployed …
@compfu@mograph.social2025-10-16 22:09:42
This sounds like a really cool sci-fi idea: a language model that is special-purpose, cheap and energy efficient and not connected to the internet so it can be built into household appliances. It might be the positive "residue" of an AI bubble crash.
But will those household appliance companies do it? They'd have to let go of their internet connected fridges and data collection. Maybe it'll be the FOSS and 3d-printing community who does it.
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2025-12-07 08:43:18
But the debt industry itself hasn't gotten any more efficient: "the cost of moving a dollar from a saver to a borrower was about two cents in 1910; a hundred years later, it was the same." ... "This puzzle resolves itself once we recognize that the vast majority of financial innovation is geared towards figuring out how to siphon off resources through fees, insider information and lobbying."
@NicolasGriseyDemengel@piaille.fr2025-10-25 06:33:35
"Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/#pee-bottles
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchange2025-10-21 17:57:16
Cory Doctorow gets it – Time to download privacy apps now
The Dictator/Fascist/Authoritarian playbook is well understood. Surveillance is a key part of the effort to dominate and punish individuals who engage in legal dissent or opposition. The recent decision by Apple and Google to remove the ICEBlock application from their app stores is a good example of how this control plays out.
Our mobile phones are the main platform that we use to send and receive text and email messages.…
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social2025-11-02 11:26:03
Big Tech is neoliberalism's wet dream!
There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path
to a post-American internet
by @…
https://
@Life_is@no-pony.farm2026-01-01 13:04:36
Cory Doctorow hält den ewigen Weltrekord im kritisiert werden für den stil der eigenen posts. Ein rekord, den natürlich nur erringen kann, wer nicht nur sehr viele follower hat, sondern auch so postet, dass es…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-10-29 14:37:39
Reading stuff like the latest from @… I get the impression that a sound business strategy for the near future would be concentrating on doing stuff well, with competent people doing it, and making plans for rapid expansion for when the whole gigantic castle of half-burnt 6-fingered AI cards comes crashing down.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-21 17:18:05
Donald Trump, the most Florida Man ever, was elected president.
If you asked an LLM to write a Carl Hiaasen novel, you might get Trump:
a hacky, unimaginative version of the wealthy, callous, scheming grifters of the Hiaasenverse.
Back in 2020, Hiaasen wrote Trump into Squeeze Me,
a tremendous and madcap addition to his canon:
Fever Beach is the first Hiaasen novel since Squeeze Me,
and boy, does Hiaasen ever have MAGA's number.
The book revol…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-26 14:55:43
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack (Cory Doctorow/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p13#a251226p13
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-10-21 15:03:51
Every European (and Canadian, and Australian, and so on) should read @… 's latest.
A snippet:
"It's well past time for a post-American internet. Every device and every service should be designed so that the people who use them have the final say over how they work. Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from upda…