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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
08:51 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026)

Today's links Textured: The surprises are what matter. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Mr Dressup; Oligarch sucker-punch; ICC v CEOs. Upcoming appearances: Berkeley, Edmonton, Boston, South Bend, Hudson, Calgary, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Victoria, ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
08:09 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026)

Today's links On the sincerity of AI bosses: Fascism is always an incoherent bundle. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 9/11 v spam; PalmOS x WTC collapse; Wifi x WTC rubble; Berlusconi sex rings; Tesco bans writing down prices; AI psychosis and the w...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
16 Sep 08:45 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026)

Today's links How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses: If you can't impose switching costs, just eliminate the competition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flash Worms; This Film is Not Yet Rated; Libdem copyright sabotage; Religion worth more than...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
15 Sep 08:18 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026)

Today's links Everybody pees: Even Jeff Bezos. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Zune won't play Microsoft files; Papercraft 1:1 Mustang; Third gender for Aussie passports; France hacked Canada; EC v links; Welcome to Night Vale; University spends li...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
14 Sep 11:45 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026)

Today's links But do you use keyboard shortcuts?: AI people are WEIRD. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Changeling"; Sony Rootkit vs CD drives; Google's scumbag lobbyists; NJ's e-voting coverup; Spying sex toys; Scott Walker dark money leak; "REAMD...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
12 Sep 12:09 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026)

Today's links LLMs are real, AI is fake: No, it didn't "go rogue." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why 9/11 Means We Must Support My Politics; Blogs x 9/11; Jimmy Wales v Britannica's EiC; Hollywood astroturfs Australia; Agents v queer YA; Soft lan...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
11 Sep 16:03 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026)

Today's links Inefficiency is bad, actually: Now, "resiliency" on the other hand… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Canada's DMCA; Socialism x Pledge of Allegiance; Hate the player and the game; Making Light's 9/11; 9/11 survivor registry; Secure ema...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
09 Sep 11:03 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (08 Sep 2026)

Today's links Anti-vax/anti-trust: Remembering saves lives. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disneyland prisoner; HOAs v xeriscaping; Copyright Office x regulatory capture; The women held a vote; Open licenses v uncopyrightable subjects; Largest pri...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
07 Sep 05:33 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026)

Today's links How corporate America built a better Roach Motel: Hostages beat customers every day. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 3-hole punches; Warner Bros v Warner Bros; Privacy wars get worse; "Weapons of Math Destruction"; HK elections go to ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
05 Sep 08:57 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026)

Today's links Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Memory-hacking ads; "Dzur"; NZ Ministry of DRM; Canadians v looking at the internet; Advice for self-publishers; Advice for writers; Why ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
04 Sep 10:03 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026)

Today's links Amazon achieves enshittification inception: Cheating on your fraud is a hell of a thing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Electrolite is back; Mafia rules; Aaronsw on Wikipedia; Proctorio's memory hole. Upcoming appearances: Dąbrowa Gó...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
03 Sep 09:33 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026)

Today's links Preparing for a post-Trump internet: You'd better hope it's also a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Barnum and Bailey v journalism; Wired's Wikipedia article is a wiki; Singapore's national wifi; Twitter argumen...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
02 Sep 11:09 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026)

Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means scraping. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Leaked advanced PalmOS device specs; Stalwart workers; "I, Rowboat"; SMS uprising; Facebook v switching costs...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
26 Aug 03:48 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026)

Today's links The age of disinvention: 🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥️1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥1️⃣2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🟥 Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Metacrap; CmdrTaco retires; Chalk memorial for Jack Layton; By all means tread on these people. ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
24 Aug 22:00 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026)

Today's links How Canada can save Americans and defeat America: True Carneyism has never been tried. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Brazil v AIDS drug patents; TSA v gel-bras; After the Siege (Russian); Names are hard; Layton's last message; Hospi...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
22 Aug 01:57 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026)

Today's links Born on technology's third base: Material forces shape life-chances. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Glue; iPods v unions; RIP Jack Layton; Gibson on cities; Britain's sweatshop for terminally ill help-hcalls; NYPL's open CDN; Radical...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
21 Aug 00:03 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026)

Today's links The actual epistemic crisis: AI's assault on reality is an opportunistic infection. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Disney goths; Running a con room party; Equation Group's fuggly sourcecode; "Bubble"; "The Weight." Upcoming appearanc...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
19 Aug 08:00 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026)

Today's links The ordinariness of evil: Stop selling AI (bad). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Dot-crash bumwad; AP v fair use; Nym Wars; What's ctrl-F? Pentagon lost $6.5T in a year; Voter ID is voter suppression; Become unoptimizable. Upcoming ap...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
18 Aug 15:21 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026)

Today's links IP can't save you from AI: Property rights cannot substitute for labor rights and privacy rights. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flying Brits v brown people; Probability neglect; Law v "enhanced patdowns"; Onion says Brits love paywa...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
17 Aug 07:54 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026)

Today's links Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture': The definitive textbook (with comics!). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Hair-gel bombers v bras; Hair-gel bombers v chemistry; AOL digs for spammer's platinum; Stross on in...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
14 Aug 11:27 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Capital formation (14 Aug 2026)

Today's links Capital formation: Going legit means going mainstream. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: London Copyfighters x Speaker's Corner; TSA v lipstick; Long Beach v photographers; China x David Cameron's internet censorship; McMansion Hell; Co...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
12 Aug 09:33 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026)

Today's links Model collapse: Living in a world that's trained on itself. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Wired v Dutch hackers; NYT v DMCA; Hair gel terrorist threat does not exist; AT&T merger is a screwjob; Smart cities are stupid; RIP Reaga...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
11 Aug 12:21 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026)

Today's links Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone's gonna fleece these rubes, why not me? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DeCSS; Warhol Worm; Camgirls x Amazon wishlists; 2021 State of Tech (in 2001); RIAA v grieving family; Stasi disguises. Upcom...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
10 Aug 07:33 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026)

Today's links The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction: The only way to win is not to play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Seymour Cray's tunnels; War on moisture; $5 wrench cryptanalysis; Nauru files; People's Ride; German tr...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
08 Aug 09:36 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026)

Today's links Digital sewer socialism: Mamdani's Public Interest Technologists are what DOGE should have been. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Robot garage takes hostages; Thermostat ransomware; Correlate audience exhalations; Judges x TOR; Expecta...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
06 Aug 11:06 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026)

Today's links Eternal Sloptember: Mark Zuckerberg and the fantasy of social media without socializing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Delany x The Onion; Duran Duran x Second Life; Spammers x blog pings; Privacywashing v Doordash; Good ideas are p...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
05 Aug 11:30 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026)

Today's links Google is a scammer's paradise: The internet's absentee landlord. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS; EZ realistic corpse; $300m login button; Short Uber; Who goes AI? Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Syd...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
04 Aug 11:45 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026)

Today's links Post-American compute for a post-American Internet: Building cooperative human rights computing infrastructure in Puerto Rico, the EU, Canada and Mexico. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Urine Luck; Germany v pornoscanners; Moorcock's ...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
03 Aug 08:57 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026)

Today's links Dualism: Why not both? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: UK's Great Firewall falls; Mint the coins; Virtual pets v DRM; Getty copyfrauds 47,000 photos; Net Mexico-US illegal migration is zero; Build a wall (around Trump Tower); Remote-h...

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
01 Aug 13:12 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)

Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; David Byrne x WinXP; Fur...