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"Christmas-voting turkeys"- der Cory #Doctorow ist halt schon ein Wortzauberer
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/#boss-politics

Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown s…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image I can't wait to use Bluesky, but I will not be joining Bluesky. As much as I trust and respect the Bluesky executives and board members I am acquainted with, I believe the service itself is insufficiently enshittification-resistant to trust: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes 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: h…

«What's more, AI Overview will produce a response like this one even when you ask it about air purifiers that don't exist, like the "Levoit Core 5510," the "Winnix Airmega" and the "Coy Mega 700."»
On the faulty economics behind the #Google #AI search previews…

“It's true that #AI loses money for #Google, but AI earns something far more important (at least from Pichai's perspective): a story about how Google can continue to grow.”

"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google.
This is enshittification."
From: @…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Angehängt: 1 Bild It's been more than a year since I gave up on Google Search (I switched to Kagi.com and never looked back). I don't miss it. It had gotten terrible. It's gotten worse since, thanks to AI (of course): https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi -- 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: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman…

Olha, nem de propósito. Lembras-te da nosa conversa de ontem, @… ? O Doctorow escreveu precisamente sobre isso.
https://pluralistic.n…

A must-read with a great headline from @…
Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bel

Change happens when solidaristic groups of everyday people - unions, political movements - directly confront politicians and power-brokers and demand change. Your boss won't equitably share the fruits of your labor unless they fear that all the workers on the jobsite will shut down the shop.
https://pluralistic…

"Peter Theil is happy to support a political movement whose dominant factions would like to put him – and every other gay man – in a concentration camp, because he's pretty sure that only applies to the poor gays, not the billionaire gays."
Pluralistic: Maga’s boss class think they are immune to American carnage (13 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/#boss-politics

Clean room romantic of an electrical engineer overseeing EUV lasers, pieu pieu, ie, #chip manufacturing:
"That overseer needs to wear a clean-room suit, and they have to work an eight-hour shift without a bathroom, food or water break (because getting out of the suit means going through an airlock means shutting down the system means long delays and wastage)."

I like Cory's thread. Just like with bikes, fighting systemic issues requires personal choices AND mass mobilization. Personal choices, like getting a cargo bike* instead of an SUV to transport your kids around, help normalize it and influence others (who see you riding with your kid and realize that they can do that too). And then organizing, getting all of your neighbors together to push for safe bike infrastructure, which is particularly effective at the local level.

The most prominent invention in the century is certainly #wikipedia, right? If not convinced, this text gives a very interesting angle to how important it is:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-

Thread made me smile.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114785898841904625

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Hey, Pho Cue too, buddy!

"96% of bosses expect that AI will make their workers more productive;
85% of companies are either requiring or strongly encouraging workers to use AI;
49% of workers have no idea how AI is supposed to increase their productivity;
77% of workers say using AI decreases their productivity."
ht…

behöver det se ut såhär varje gång Cory Doctorow släpper något? finns det inget bättre sätt att göra det på?

"In the early days of the fight over a woman’s right to choose, Protestants —including evangelicals — viewed abortion as a Catholic issue, and evangelicals who grew too exercised over abortion were suspected of crypto-Papism."
https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/18/schizmogenesis/

"How much (little) are the AI companies making?"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/accounting-gaffs/#artificial-income

Kion volas la popolo de sia regado? Mi divinas, ke unu el la gravaj aferoj estas, ke ĝi ŝirmas la preskaŭ senpova individuo de la rabemaj riĉuloj; kaj ke, nuntempe, tio ne okazas, do ili glitas al la ekstremoj kun la ne-plenumiĝota espero ke la promesita renverso rebonigos la ekvilibron. La centraj partioj pereos, se ili ne traktas severe grandajn komercajn kompaniojn, aparte la interretaj firmaoj. Legindas

The nightmare of the #Google case,
"As punishment for being convinced of obtaining and maintaining a monopoly, Google will be forced to share sensitive data with lots of other search engines. This will not secure competition for search, but it will certainly democratize human rights violations at scale."

@…'s Red Team Blues erscheint überraschenderweise nun auch als Hörbuch auf Deutsch! Das ganze natürlich DRM-frei, darauf besteht Cory Doctorow. Wer es noch nicht kennt oder die Geschichte lieber vorgelesen kriegt kann es über Kickstarter bestellen:

Le problème Bluesky :
"Bluesky a des investisseurs extérieurs – dont Blockchain Capital, une société au nom sinistre et Š la réputation déplorable – et si ces personnes décident de détruire Bluesky, elles peuvent alors évincer les bons acteurs du conseil d'administration, licencier la direction et les remplacer par de classiques sociopathes d'entreprise."
#bluesky

Monsters are very real.
But they never emerge in a vacuum.
This piece by @… is nearly perfect in explaining why.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/19/sys