#doctorow — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #doctorow, aggregated by home.social.
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#SciFi CStross and #Doctorow IIRC wrote a collaborative story called "#unwirers " years ago about the expansion of a #wireless #mesh #network into an unfriendly or captured by capitalists (if there's a difference) environment.
Potentially risky, but surely the people who are unwired will have Wifi and why would they take note of where a network was coming from.
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How surveillance pricing raises the prices for all of us.
Just received you pay-check? Breakfast can be more expensive.
A health problem or urgent travel requirement? Up goes the price for medicines or travel.
They analyse your needs and profit accordingly.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/#there-ive-done-something
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The English Cory #Doctorow in a brilliant analysis.
- Fascists come to power by mobilizing grievances. By choosing a scapegoat, fascists can create support from people who are justifiably furious that the services they rely on have collapsed.
- Fascism – what Hannah Arendt called 'organized loneliness' – can only take root when people stop believing that their society will reward their lawfulness with an orderly and humane existence.
#Democray #Trump
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/always-great/#our-nhs -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sixtus/116147286973469096
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@sixtus thrilling #documentary " #ai & the #death of the #internet ", featuring among others, @pluralistic is back online @ #arte
watch it without visiting #evilcorp #youtube https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/122187-000-A/ai-and-the-death-of-the-internet/Tell ya friends & family, let #Sixtus & #corydoctorow do the explaining & organize a #diday :)
Sixtus spannende #Reportage " #ki & der #Tod des Internets" ist wieder auf arte, u.a. mit Cory #Doctorow https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/122187-000-A/ki-der-tod-des-internets/
Privaten #DiD organisieren, Doku schauen & gemeinsam aussteigen :)
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116022803319662931
Nicely done. Despite the prominence and visibility of immigration law offices, throughout US cities, I agree that few Americans understand the extent of our tortuous immigration protocols. And last year DOGE developed a new fresh hell to further stratify immigration processes.
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Cory Doctorow - featured essayist in The Guardian:
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
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goob morning & happy first Monday of 2026
#Enshittification #Doctorow #MastoReads #Reading #currentlyReading #mastoBooks
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Cory Doctorow at the Chaos Computer Club 393C, December 2025.
The case for repealing anti circumvention laws is incredibly strong.
#39c3 #it #computing #enshittification #jailbreaking #doctorow
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A post-American, #enshittification-resistant internet - by Cory #Doctorow
"The #Trump #tariffs are here, and it's time to pick the locks on the those #handcuffs and set the world's hackers loose on Big Tech.
Happy #Liberation Day, everyone!"
strong recommendation to watch!#39C3 #mustsee #politics #freedom #technology
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
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Cory Doctorow on The Daily Show: Local boy makes good on national teevee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE
#enshittification #dailyshow #doctorow #internet #culture #comedy #cory #+ -
Cory Doctorow on The Daily Show: Local boy makes good on national teevee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE
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Cory Doctorow on The Daily Show: Local boy makes good on national teevee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE
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Cory Doctorow on The Daily Show: Local boy makes good on national teevee!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE
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oh #doctorow #entshitification book is out... happy to throw some bucks his way.
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🚨 Oh look, another groundbreaking revelation: tech giants are bending the rules! 👀 #Doctorow bravely reveals what we all totally didn't already know—tech companies use apps to *gasp* break laws! 📱⚖️ Stunning insight, truly.
https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/ #techgiants #rulebreaking #revelations #appscandal #legalissues #groundbreakinginsight #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh look, another groundbreaking revelation: tech giants are bending the rules! 👀 #Doctorow bravely reveals what we all totally didn't already know—tech companies use apps to *gasp* break laws! 📱⚖️ Stunning insight, truly.
https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/ #techgiants #rulebreaking #revelations #appscandal #legalissues #groundbreakinginsight #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh look, another groundbreaking revelation: tech giants are bending the rules! 👀 #Doctorow bravely reveals what we all totally didn't already know—tech companies use apps to *gasp* break laws! 📱⚖️ Stunning insight, truly.
https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/ #techgiants #rulebreaking #revelations #appscandal #legalissues #groundbreakinginsight #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh look, another groundbreaking revelation: tech giants are bending the rules! 👀 #Doctorow bravely reveals what we all totally didn't already know—tech companies use apps to *gasp* break laws! 📱⚖️ Stunning insight, truly.
https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/ #techgiants #rulebreaking #revelations #appscandal #legalissues #groundbreakinginsight #HackerNews #ngated -
Doctorow: American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law
https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/
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*I guess it's Bluesky Old Home Week here, but I'm gonna read that book. #Stross #Doctorow #Greenfield #EvenRodneyBrooks #HeyEvenYudkowski
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oq5e3he3vdrrukzcauokdhpj/post/3lzxmh2wl6k2k -
🍏📵 #Apple hilariously tries to convince us they'll stop selling #iPhones in the #EU, as if they'd EVER pass up on euros. 😂 Meanwhile, #Cory #Doctorow hides in plain sight, reminding us he's still around with his no-ads, no-data shtick. 🙄
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers #tech #humor #noads #HackerNews #ngated -
🍏📵 #Apple hilariously tries to convince us they'll stop selling #iPhones in the #EU, as if they'd EVER pass up on euros. 😂 Meanwhile, #Cory #Doctorow hides in plain sight, reminding us he's still around with his no-ads, no-data shtick. 🙄
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers #tech #humor #noads #HackerNews #ngated -
🍏📵 #Apple hilariously tries to convince us they'll stop selling #iPhones in the #EU, as if they'd EVER pass up on euros. 😂 Meanwhile, #Cory #Doctorow hides in plain sight, reminding us he's still around with his no-ads, no-data shtick. 🙄
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers #tech #humor #noads #HackerNews #ngated -
🍏📵 #Apple hilariously tries to convince us they'll stop selling #iPhones in the #EU, as if they'd EVER pass up on euros. 😂 Meanwhile, #Cory #Doctorow hides in plain sight, reminding us he's still around with his no-ads, no-data shtick. 🙄
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers #tech #humor #noads #HackerNews #ngated -
🍏📵 #Apple hilariously tries to convince us they'll stop selling #iPhones in the #EU, as if they'd EVER pass up on euros. 😂 Meanwhile, #Cory #Doctorow hides in plain sight, reminding us he's still around with his no-ads, no-data shtick. 🙄
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers #tech #humor #noads #HackerNews #ngated -
🧐 Oh, #Meta tried to bury a book? Shocking! Seriously, who knew #books were still a thing?! 📚😂 Meanwhile, #Cory Doctorow's site is a minimalist #privacy utopia—because if no one visits, no data gets collected. 🙄
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf #Burying #Doctorow #Utopia #Minimalism #HackerNews #ngated -
🧐 Oh, #Meta tried to bury a book? Shocking! Seriously, who knew #books were still a thing?! 📚😂 Meanwhile, #Cory Doctorow's site is a minimalist #privacy utopia—because if no one visits, no data gets collected. 🙄
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf #Burying #Doctorow #Utopia #Minimalism #HackerNews #ngated -
🧐 Oh, #Meta tried to bury a book? Shocking! Seriously, who knew #books were still a thing?! 📚😂 Meanwhile, #Cory Doctorow's site is a minimalist #privacy utopia—because if no one visits, no data gets collected. 🙄
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf #Burying #Doctorow #Utopia #Minimalism #HackerNews #ngated -
🧐 Oh, #Meta tried to bury a book? Shocking! Seriously, who knew #books were still a thing?! 📚😂 Meanwhile, #Cory Doctorow's site is a minimalist #privacy utopia—because if no one visits, no data gets collected. 🙄
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf #Burying #Doctorow #Utopia #Minimalism #HackerNews #ngated -
https://mastodon.world/@nancyproctor/114180038836284684
#Cory #Doctorow at his very best during this interview. I cold listen (in this case read) this guy for hours, never a dull moment. It’s a bit long but worth the read. It’s about #writing, it’s about #enshitification., its about #US and #Canadian politics, it’s about #tariffs and it’s also about a novel. -
Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk's "Chaotic Blitz" at DOGE, Living in a Tech Dystopia, Luigi Mangone
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tKV5GB6dN3o
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Acquired more books to add to my #amreading pile: #doctorow #cultish #SocialMedia
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this is a very interesting article by ted chiang about the quality of LLM like chatgpt a.o. the LLM's "hallucinations" as inevitable effects of data compressionThink of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same way that a JPEG retains much of the information of a higher-resolution image, but, if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it; all you will ever get is an approximation. But, because the approximation is presented in the form of grammatical text, which ChatGPT excels at creating, it’s usually acceptable. You’re still looking at a blurry JPEG, but the blurriness occurs in a way that doesn’t make the picture as a whole look less sharp.
worth reading!
via @Cory Doctorow
#computer #internet #Doctorow #Chiang #LLM #ChatGPT #AI #KI
#^ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the WebOpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
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Australian dictionary picks #enshittification as 2024’s word of the year🏆
"coined by writer @pluralistic C #Doctorow, refers to a process in which apps or #digital #platforms start off as incredibly useful, but gradually worsen as they seek to make a #profit. #Socialmedia platforms like X & ride-sharing app Uber are frequently cited examples.. It was chosen as #wordoftheyear by the dictionary’s committee of experts, & was also voted “People’s Choice Winner”"
#mastowriter
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-dictionary-picks-enshittification-as-2024s-word-of-the-year -
«Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I've entered into community with there. [...] A federation of multiple servers [...] has been on Bluesky's roadmap for as long as I've been following it, but they haven't (yet) delivered it.»
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Just published a new post on my blog, about how everything seems to turn into a subscription these days.
Went a bit out of my comfort zone, and tried to touch on #neoliberalism, #consumerism, and (digital) ownership because I felt inspired by some books and articles I've read recently; from Elinor Ostrom, Kate Raworth, Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic), and Jason Hickel.
Don't expect a masterpiece, most of my writing experience comes just from technical documentations. 😛
… Always interested in further book recommendations, btw. :)
https://hertig.blog/posts/consumer-first-citizen-second/
#blog #economics #tech #ostrom #hickel #doctorow #bookstodon
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Die Abendlektüre gestern nach den KI-Diskussionen: Das neue Buch von @pluralistic Cory #Doctorow: "The Bezzle", der zweite Martin Hench-Roman nach #RedTeamBlues. Als Audiobook gelesen von Will Wheaton (und nicht erhältlich auf Audible, weil DRM-frei). Von mir als eBook gelesen. #TheBezzle
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Enshittification: word of the year: Recognition of an important coinage
https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/
#enshittification #doctorow #consumer #words #cory #tech #+ -
Enshittification: word of the year: Recognition of an important coinage
https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/
#enshittification #doctorow #consumer #words #cory #tech #+
