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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
06 Dec 19:54 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" (06 Dec 2025)

Today's links Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism": How many $TRUMP coins should your company buy? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: NZ doesn't want US-style copyright; Tron: Reloaded; Mass shootings and gun profits; Descartes God has fa...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
05 Dec 15:03 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025)

Today's links The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI: My speech for U Washington's Neuroscience, AI and Society lecture series. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pac Man ghost algorithms; The US wrote Spain's copyright law; Illinois makes pris...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
03 Dec 18:21 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: A year in illustration (2025 edition) (03 Dec 2025)

Today's links A year in illustration (2025 edition): I think I'm getting the hang of this? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: HADOPI is born; Tea Party wants to disenfranchise renters; How to kill TPP; Mozilla ejects Thunderbird; Rosa Parks was a life...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
02 Dec 13:19 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2025 (02 Dec 2025)

Today's links All the books I reviewed in 2025: A year in books. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: David Byrne v RIAA; Sam Buck vs Starbucks; Eek-A-Trad; Mesopotamian DRM; Distanced stage plays. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearan...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
01 Dec 16:18 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings (01 Dec 2025)

Today's links Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta: It's one thing to hire an ex-Meta lobbyist, another entirely if she's signed a non-disparagement contract. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Cus...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
28 Nov 09:16 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025)

Today's links (Digital) Elbows Up: How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Workaholic Goethe; Prehistory of the Sony rootk...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
27 Nov 12:18 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Normie diffusion and technophilia (27 Nov 2025)

Today's links Normie diffusion and technophilia: Who will seize the means of computation? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Centaur teddybears; Vaginal yeast sourdough; Snoopers Charter rebuttal; "The Paradox"; Bossware is unfair. Upcoming appearance...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
26 Nov 13:03 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: O(N^2) nationalism (26 Nov 2025)

Today's links O(N^2) nationalism: Trumpism can only be defeated throuh international nationalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Paywall kremlinology; How to fix everything; Office365 is spyware; State-owned Amazon. Upcoming appearances: Where to ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
25 Nov 16:57 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" (25 Nov 2025)

Today's links Google steers Americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" : An enshittified search monopolist meets the worst health care system imaginable. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disaster fantasies; "Sea to Sea"; Veronica Belmon...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
24 Nov 15:06 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Cooking in Maximum Security (24 Nov 2025)

Today's links Cooking in Maximum Security: A companion volume to "Prisoners' Inventions." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Cursed house; Randall Munroe's stick figures; Reverse engineering a gig work platform; Barbie surveillance toy teardown; Labor...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
22 Nov 19:30 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025)

Today's links Boss preppers: What does a captain of industry have to offer after the shit hits the fan? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Yahoo blocks webmail for adblockers; Badly forgiving student debt. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recen...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
20 Nov 10:21 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The long game (20 Nov 2025)

Today's links The long game: Breaking up Big Tech is a long-run project. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: ARRRRR!; Watching paint dry; CEOs are tall, lucky, men; Harpercollins demands authors' AI rights; Victorian bumwipe; Ted Koppel's stupid book; ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
18 Nov 14:09 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025)

Today's links Disney has lost Roger Rabbit: Termination of Transfer is the most pro-artist form of copyright. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why didn't AV apps block Sony's rootkit? Surveillance doesn't stop terror attacks; The last Pratchett; The...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
17 Nov 17:03 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 Nov 2025)

Today's links The games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury: Amnesia is video games' default state. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Sony DRM nonpology; Misprinted prefab houses; Canada's repair law can't be fixed; BNL's USB-stick release...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
15 Nov 11:57 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Zorhan Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker (15 Nov 2025)

Today's links Zohran Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker: Lina Khan has plans for New York City. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pirate code in Sony rootkit; Tim Wu on "New Monopolists"; Supersonic chirps in ads; Fordite; Sony's rootkit uninst...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
13 Nov 09:21 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025)

Today's links For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity: Competition can't to solve the hospice problem. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Inner-tube laces; NZ MPs ejected for talking about sexual assault; Snowden's opsec advice...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
12 Nov 06:28 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025)

Today's links A tale of three customer service chatbots: Two were worse than useless, one betrayed its masters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: General strike; We won't fly; Green tea doesn't promote weight-loss. Upcoming appearances: Where to find...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
11 Nov 11:00 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' (11 Nov 2025)

Today's links Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country': Short stories so expertly spun you'll hardly know you've been ensnared. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Agent To the Stars"; Smart TV spying; 3D printing and the law; Google open s...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
10 Nov 12:36 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025)

Today's links "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital": It's a zero-sum game. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Corrupt CDs; 10,000 wax cylinders; EU wants copyright on links; Sony rootkit; Humbling math-papers; Chelsea Manning on Aaro...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
08 Nov 15:48 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Facebook's fraud files (08 Nov 2025)

Today's links Facebook's fraud files: 10% of gross ad revenue coming from fraudulent ads. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: FOIA for Theresa May; Paid patriotism; Antiusurpation. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
07 Nov 15:45 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The enshittification of labor (07 Nov 2025)

Today's links The enshittification of labor: Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 3D printing with tape-guns; TPP is the worst; HP ends customers' lives. Upcoming appearances: Where to find m...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
06 Nov 13:24 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world (06 Nov 2025)

Today's links The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world: If reality doesn't fit the theory, ignore reality. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: The Master Switch; Dueling useless machines; Chrome delists Symantec; ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
05 Nov 16:54 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works" (05 Nov 2025)

Today's links "Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works": Steampunk dinosaurs scratch-build a pressurized air-based, Turing complete, universal von Neumann machine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Google Print vs Great Ormond; Lincolnbo...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
01 Nov 20:18 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech (01 Nov 2025)

Today's links There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: D2020; Sony rootkit; Public Enemy vs the internet; NYC plute Hallowe'en. Upcoming appearances: Where t...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
31 Oct 17:03 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The internet was made for privacy (31 Oct 2025)

Today's links The internet was made for privacy: And unmade by regulators. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Materialist conspiratorialism; TSA ball-fondlers; Anonymous to dox 1,000 Klansmen; Amazon hates private property; The Great Firewall of Camer...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
29 Oct 14:30 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: When AI prophecy fails (29 Oct 2025)

Today's links When AI prophecy fails: Hating workers is a hell of a drug. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: SCOTUS lets the FBI kidnap Americans; Inequality perverts justice; Free the McFlurry! Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearanc...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
28 Oct 15:27 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off" (28 Oct 2025)

Today's links Raymond Beisinger's "9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off": A self-defense guide for creative workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gingerbread Phantom Manor; Orwell estate censors 1984; The Abbadon; Ferris wheel fine dining. Upcomi...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
27 Oct 13:52 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death (27 Oct 2025)

Today's links Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death: The bifurcation of justice is always and ever a prelude to fascism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: CCTV botnets; CEOs and random chance; Foxconn v Trump. Upcoming appearances: Where to...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
23 Oct 20:21 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)

Today's links Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs: When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you're not even allowed to call yourself an employee. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Correcting the Disneyland Railroad's Mo...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
21 Oct 16:57 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach' (21 Oct 2025)

Today's links Carl Hiaasen's 'Fever Beach': If you didn't laugh, you'd have to cry. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Scary Godmother; Nightvale novel; The war on Worker's Comp; Cadillac's murdermobiles. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...