@davidaugust@mastodon.online"I'm a technology writer, which means I'm supposed to be encouraging you to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at the money-losingest technology in human history, AI. No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialCory Doctorow - featured essayist in The Guardian:
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
@fgraver@hcommons.social
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPluralistic: 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.de39C3: 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.
@makeratschool@kanoa.deFast 20 Jahre nach Makers schreibt @… für alle, die es noch nicht verstanden haben, noch mal, was unser Problem ist: BigTech und ihre überaus erfolgreiche Lobbyarbeit.
Liebe gewählte Volksvertreter_innen im @…, macht endlich …
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"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…
@crell@phpc.socialReverse Centaurs of AI, by @…
https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/
@mela@zusammenkunft.net
@villavelius@mastodon.online
@StephenRees@mas.toAlways readable Cory Doctorow - you should follow him BTW - but this speech he gave yesterday knocks the ball out of the park! Right on brother!
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa
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39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
@fgraver@hcommons.socialPluralistic: Writing vs AI (07 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/
@mlncn@social.coopUsually on point, but @… makes a very easily falsifiable claim in this essay, https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-st…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgYesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.
EDIT: Diskussions under this are fine, but I do not want this to turn into an ad hominem attack to Cory. Be fucking respectful
@esoriano@social.linux.pizzaGreat talk at ccc by Cory Doctorow
https://youtu.be/39jsstmmUUs
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPluralistic: The Nuremberg Caucus (10 Feb 2026) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p57#a260210p57
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioCory Doctorow sounds like he has been chatting to his chatbot therapist and they decided together it's a good idea to publish an article that attacks people for having valid criticisms about LLMs and the AI industry.
How dare he. This is such poor judgment.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialI feel that this piece by @… is brimming with painful experience. And it's totally right.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/nonconsensual-sloppi…
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39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
@barijaona@mastodon.mgCory Doctorom (@…) has good points on de facto monopolies enforced by network effects and the particular case of US dollar.
Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026) https://
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialAmerica is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets. But it's not enough to know that the system is rigged. Everybody knows the system is rigged. To build a movement and save our future, we have to know how it is rigged and who rigged it.
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialGreat post by @… on how stock buybacks are an even bigger scam than you thought. And on other ways the billionaire class is fleecing everyone.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/cor
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@StephenRees@mas.toFrom Cory Doctorow
"I'm not asking you to credulously accept Carney's conversion at face value. Rather, I'm asking that you celebrate the vision that Carney articulated while threatening to destroy his political life if he breaks his word. Let every politician know that there is glory in standing up for us – and let them know that betrayal will see them tossed overboard, to drown in our wake."
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPluralistic: 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
@sjn@chaos.socialAlways awesome to listen to @… at the Chaos Communication Congress! Highlight of the trip as always 😸 #39c3
@marcel@waldvogel.family"So long as the pain of using the service is lower than the pain of leaving it, the companies can turn the screws on users to make their lives worse in order to extract more profit from them. This is why Musk killed the block button and why Zuck fired all his moderators."
https://plural…
@crell@phpc.socialCory Doctorow, uncharacteristically humorous (rather than just sarcastic).
Also, as an American, I support his proposal.
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-13-not-sorry-mere-billions-40dd2b261390
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39C3: Konzerne ruinieren das Netz – Cory Doctorows Ideen gegen Enshittification
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPluralistic: 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
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgTransform 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
@Life_is@no-pony.farm @life_is@no-pony.farm @lpryszcz@genomic.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comPluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026) (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p143#a260202p143
@lpryszcz@genomic.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comUS 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
