@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
@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/
@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.
@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…
@geant@mstdn.social2026-02-11 13:49:18
🆔 DC4EU final report proposes pluralistic trust model to realise EUDI Wallet vision
A key message in the report: no single trust model fits Europe’s diversity. Instead, DC4EU proposes a pluralistic approach, weaving together three complementary trust infrastructures.
⏳ With less than a year left to achieve Europe’s 2026 digital identity mandate, the report calls for coordinated action to move from feasibility to real-world deployment at European scale.
Read more:
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2026-02-09 19:51:49
@jae@mastodon.me.uk2026-01-12 13:30:56
The game based on Pokemon is launching a card game. What a world we live in.
https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/115882212116030221
@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.'
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@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-10 16:35:52
Pluralistic: 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
@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