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WINGS_radioVery super talk. Pull cursor ahead until Doctorow starts speaking. His speech is about an hour. <a href="https://vimeo.com/1059798497" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/1059798497</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strategy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laws</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exploitation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doctorow</a>

RaymondPierreL3<a href="https://mastodon.world/@nancyproctor/114180038836284684" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.world/@nancyproctor/114180038836284684</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cory</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doctorow</a> 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 <a href="https://aus.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>, it’s about <a href="https://aus.social/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshitification</a>., its about <a href="https://aus.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canadian</a> politics, it’s about <a href="https://aus.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> and it’s also about a novel.

datum (n=1)And no, it doesn't make me happy that <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic</a> gave the warningknowing, as a society, hasn't stopped this from happeninghasn't made us, the collective us, reject assaults on reality<a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/AIIsGoingGreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIIsGoingGreat</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/spreadsheets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spreadsheets</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/AIturds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIturds</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/EpistemologicalCollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EpistemologicalCollapse</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/EpistemologicCollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EpistemologicCollapse</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Enturdification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enturdification</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doctorow</a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoryDoctorow</a>

Kevin RussellIt's high time we started moving fast and breaking US Big Tech!<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doctorow</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechBro</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 🇰🇷 <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/08/turnabout/#is-fair-play" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/08/turnabout/#is-fair-play</a>

CartotasticWAYNE'S 2025 BOOKS: BOOK 5Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow (<a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a>)Huzzah! A new Martin Hench book! I was a proud backer of Cory Doctorow's Kickstarter to publish this work without the anti-consumer and anti-writer practises of the usual purveyor of the written word: our old frenemy Amazon. I chose the epub version (which I read using Calibre on my Android phone), and the only reason I didn't buy a physical copy is that I'd like to get all the Hench novels in paperback, and this book isn't in that format yet.Anyway, Picks and Shovels takes Martin Hench wayback to the late 80s, when computers had to be programmed without monitors (the horror), when mobile phones were something seen only on Star Trek, and when Martin - sorry, Marty - is a boo-boo baby proto-accountant feeling his way into the big bad world of finance by way of the silicon highway introduced by personal computing.It's an origin story both for Hench and Silicon Valley, and a great read. With a company whose founders read like the opening to a bad joke (a rabbi, a priest and a Mormon elder) and a rival company locked in a battle for dominance, Picks and Shovels shows us that consumer capture, enshittification, and hostile design has always been around, even when computers were beige and bulky.As with all of Cory's works, you read and you learn and you have fun, all at the same time. He has a way of distilling some bigbrain ideas into smaller morsels for the rest of us to understand, and be entertaining at the same time. I smashed this book in a few days as it was eminently readable, and I just wanted to see what happened!You don't have to read the first two Hench books (Red Team Blue and The Bezzle) to enjoy this one, but you really should anyway as they're all neat and Cory is the kind of writer that we should all be supporting in these uncertain pre-technofeudal times.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/bookreview2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookreview2025</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctorow</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crime</a>

Still Mad About CD PricesUpdate: My take on this has changed, due to <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@jeremiah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jeremiah</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jorgecandeias" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jorgecandeias</a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/@koen_hufkens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@koen_hufkens</a> referring me to essays about this issue by <a href="https://social.coop/@cwebber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cwebber</a> (I had read parts of them but not all). I'm convinced by Christine Lemmer-Webber's analysis: the AT protocol is decentralizable in theory, but seems constructed in such a way that any real implementation of a second bluesky server would cost millions of dollars; it does not seem feasible to make a network of bluesky-type servers on "normal-people" budgets, unless something about that codebase changes.Original post (much more optimistic) below. -----------------"Smart leftism pays attention to these differences [in flavors of capitalism], because they represent the potential fault lines in capitalism's coalition...""I'm saying that it's good praxis to understand these divisions in capitalism, because then we can exploit those differences to make real, material gains for human thriving and worker rights. Lumping all for-profit businesses together as identical and irredeemable is bad tactics.""My answer to 'why spend money fixing Bluesky?' is 'why leave 20 million people at risk of enshittification when we could not only make them safe, but also create the toolchain to allow many, many organizations to operate a whole federation of Bluesky servers?' If you care about a better internet – and not just the Fediverse – then you should share this goal, too."<a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> politely but firmly calling the purity-testing, gatekeeping leftists (and Fediversians) on the carpet and it's a discussion that is always timely. I am here for it.<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/</a><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctorow</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/leftism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leftism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progressive</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liberal</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporate</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a>

MathiasTCK<a href="https://fosstodon.org/@normplum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@normplum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jensorensen</a> reminds me of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doctorow</a> 's free short story <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnauthorizedBread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnauthorizedBread</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/</a>

considerateAnother phenomenal book by C. Doctorow! (I'm over half way through, gushing in my excitement over the story and vision. Following my SO around the house, reading passages.) <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/thelostcause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thelostcause</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doctorow</a>

PrivacyDigest<a href="https://mas.to/@eff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eff</a> Covers Secrets in Your Data on <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NOVA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NOVA</a> Watch EFF’s Cory <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doctorow</a>, Eva Galperin, Hayley Tsukayama, and others in the digital rights community explain how your data gets scooped up by data brokers—and common practices to protect your <a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> online—in Secrets in Your Data on NOVΛ.<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/eff-covers-secrets-your-data-novl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/eff-covers-secrets-your-data-novl</a>

FinchHaven sfba<a href="https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@karlauerbach</a> OK: contextFirst web site using the pico text editor remotely over telnet to one of those home-brew [isp_domain]/user/~[account_name] web sites in 1994 (If you understand what that refers to, you know where I'm coming from)<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doctorow</a> ought to rework his <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enshitification</a> schtick into a 2020's relevant <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Appification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Appification</a> hot takeAbsolutely no one understands either what the Internet is or how it works any moreNo oneThe entire Internet has been reduced to dozens of "apps" on people's phonesMultiple apps for food, travel, banking, money exchange, health care, shoppingAnd all of it is sucking off Personally-Identifiable Information into each app vendor, completely unknown to an ignorant, credulous publiccc <a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eff</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/@jgkelley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jgkelley</a>

geographile".... the only way to get [a <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#future</a> where all of our <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#energy</a> needs are met] is to shift from molecules – whose supply can be owned and therefore sold by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Exxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Exxon</a> – to electrons, which that commie bastard sun just hands out for free to every person on our planet's surface."#<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Pluralistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pluralistic</a>: Electrons, not molecules (06 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doctorow</a> <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/06/exxonknew/#" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/06/exxonknew/#</a>

D Wilson<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doctorow</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bubble</a> Corey Doctorow on the AI Bubble - what will happen when the subsidies stop?<a href="https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/</a>

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