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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

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Inside: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/09/temporarily-embarrassed-founders/

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Pluralistic: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane (09 Dec 2025)

A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red.


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A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 23 hours ago

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Inside: Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/08/giant-teddybears/

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Pluralistic: Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam (08 Dec 2025)


A giant ogre, perched on a rock, holding a club. Its head has been replaced with the EU circle-of-stars on a blue background motif. It looms over a crying baby in a diaper. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. The baby wears a Nazi armband. The swastika has been replaced with the 'X' logo. The baby is sitting on a giant 'blue tick' icon.

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A giant ogre, perched on a rock, holding a club. Its head has been replaced with the EU circle-of-stars on a blue background motif. It looms over a crying baby in a diaper. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. The baby wears a Nazi armband. The swastika has been replaced with the 'X' logo. The baby is sitting on a giant 'blue tick' icon. Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54817684731).jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
A giant ogre, perched on a rock, holding a club. Its head has been replaced with the EU circle-of-stars on a blue background motif. It looms over a crying baby in a diaper. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. The baby wears a Nazi armband. The swastika has been replaced with the 'X' logo. The baby is sitting on a giant 'blue tick' icon. Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54817684731).jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 23 hours ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/08/giant-teddybears/

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Pluralistic: Elon Musk's Blue Tick scam (08 Dec 2025)


A giant ogre, perched on a rock, holding a club. Its head has been replaced with the EU circle-of-stars on a blue background motif. It looms over a crying baby in a diaper. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. The baby wears a Nazi armband. The swastika has been replaced with the 'X' logo. The baby is sitting on a giant 'blue tick' icon.

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A giant ogre, perched on a rock, holding a club. Its head has been replaced with the EU circle-of-stars on a blue background motif. It looms over a crying baby in a diaper. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. The baby wears a Nazi armband. The swastika has been replaced with the 'X' logo. The baby is sitting on a giant 'blue tick' icon. Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54817684731).jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
A giant ogre, perched on a rock, holding a club. Its head has been replaced with the EU circle-of-stars on a blue background motif. It looms over a crying baby in a diaper. The baby's face has been replaced with Elon Musk's. The baby wears a Nazi armband. The swastika has been replaced with the 'X' logo. The baby is sitting on a giant 'blue tick' icon. Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54817684731).jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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@glyph@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

if this is how most people encounter passkeys it’s no wonder that they fucking hate them. it feels like getting tricked. because it is getting tricked. I was tricked

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@glyph

#pluralistic describes it as the "fat-fingered economy" portion of surveillance capitalism.

They deliberately redesign interfaces to increase the changes of clicking on the wrong thing.

Linking phones to identities to laptops to home appliances to home addresses to email to bank accounts & credit cards to passports & driver's licenses...

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-05-02-kpis-off-principal-agentic-ai-problem-e7ed8810a990

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AI and the fatfinger economy

Every slip of the finger is money in the bank.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/

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




The second inauguration of Grover Cleveland (1893) before a bunting-draped Library of Congress. The image has been colorized. Cleveland has been replaced with a politician figure making 'V' fingers in front of a bank of microphones; the politician's head has been replaced with Benjamin Franklin's head from a 1999 issue US $100 bill. That same bill has been matted in as the background of the inauguration scene.
The second inauguration of Grover Cleveland (1893) before a bunting-draped Library of Congress. The image has been colorized. Cleveland has been replaced with a politician figure making 'V' fingers in front of a bank of microphones; the politician's head has been replaced with Benjamin Franklin's head from a 1999 issue US $100 bill. That same bill has been matted in as the background of the inauguration scene.
The second inauguration of Grover Cleveland (1893) before a bunting-draped Library of Congress. The image has been colorized. Cleveland has been replaced with a politician figure making 'V' fingers in front of a bank of microphones; the politician's head has been replaced with Benjamin Franklin's head from a 1999 issue US $100 bill. That same bill has been matted in as the background of the inauguration scene.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

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Inside: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

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

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye.

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https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

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Inside: A year in illustration (2025 edition); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/03/cannier-valley/

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

An artist at an easel, wearing a smock and holding a palette. The head of the artist and the subject in the oil painting have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth.
An artist at an easel, wearing a smock and holding a palette. The head of the artist and the subject in the oil painting have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth.
An artist at an easel, wearing a smock and holding a palette. The head of the artist and the subject in the oil painting have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: A year in illustration (2025 edition); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/03/cannier-valley/

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

An artist at an easel, wearing a smock and holding a palette. The head of the artist and the subject in the oil painting have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth.
An artist at an easel, wearing a smock and holding a palette. The head of the artist and the subject in the oil painting have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth.
An artist at an easel, wearing a smock and holding a palette. The head of the artist and the subject in the oil painting have been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

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Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2025; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/02/constant-reader/

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

A male figure in heavy canvas protective clothes, boots and gauntlets, reclining in the wheel-well of a locomotive, reading a book. The figure's head has been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' whose mouth is covered with a black, grawlix-scrawled bar. The figure is reading a book, from which emanates a halo of golden light.
A male figure in heavy canvas protective clothes, boots and gauntlets, reclining in the wheel-well of a locomotive, reading a book. The figure's head has been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' whose mouth is covered with a black, grawlix-scrawled bar. The figure is reading a book, from which emanates a halo of golden light.
A male figure in heavy canvas protective clothes, boots and gauntlets, reclining in the wheel-well of a locomotive, reading a book. The figure's head has been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' whose mouth is covered with a black, grawlix-scrawled bar. The figure is reading a book, from which emanates a halo of golden light.
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