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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: The enshittification of tech jobs; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: Every complex ecosystem has parasites; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/

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A rainforest in Chiapas, green and intergrown.

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Nicole Parsons @Npars01@mstdn.social

#Pluralistic calls it "twiddling".

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-05-11-for-you-the-algorithm-tm-c42ed92eaca3

https://locusmag.com/2024/05/cory-doctorow-no-one-is-the-enshittifier-of-their-own-story/

#enshittification requires twiddling.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

https://pluralistic.net/tag/twiddling/

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-03-26-glitchbread-electronic-shelf-tags-5fca23acabdf

Musk, the fake "free speech absolutist", crushing free speech is the most predictable thing a fascist does.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

https://jacobin.com/2023/05/cory-doctorow-big-tech-internet-monopoly-capitalism-artificial-intelligence-crypto

"Free speech for me, but not for thee"
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/twiddler-configurability-for-me-but-not-for-thee/

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/enshittification-part-1-where-did-it-all-go-wrong-on-the-media

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/enshittification-part-2-mechanisms-helped-big-digital-go-bad-on-the-media

A complex control panel whose knobs have all been replaced with the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ A skeletal figure on one side of the image reaches out a bony finger to twiddle one of the knobs. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — djhughman https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modular_synthesizer_-_%22Control_Voltage%22_electronic_music_shop_in

Medium · May 11, 2024Algorithmic feeds are a twiddler’s playground - Cory Doctorow - MediumBy Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/

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The Crown Books cover for Sarah Wynn-Williams's 'Careless People.'

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: More Everything Faster; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/22/vinges-bastards/

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The Basic Books cover for Adam Becker's 'More Everything Faster.'

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: Trump's FTC opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/21/trumpflation/

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Pluralistic: Against transparency (19 Apr 2025)
Read more: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/19/gotcha/

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Against transparency (19 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Against transparency; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/19/gotcha/

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A three-headed jack-in-the-box, sproinging out of a box bearing a Facebook terms of service update notice. Each of Jack's heads has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Each head wears a top hat. Two of Jack's six hands have been replaced with Facebook 'thumbs up' icons. Each of the three aspects of Jack brandishes a cruel whip.

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/

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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025)
Read more: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: Trump fought the law and Trump won; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/16/weaponized-administrative-incompetence/

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A caricature of a head-clutching, distressed Uncle Sam, locked up behind dingy bars. In the foreground, from below, looms Trump's candyfloss hair.

Spencer Christiano @172frames@zirk.us

#Pluralistic : Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs

《[...] the plaintiff noticed that the odometer readings for his identical daily drive were going up by ever-larger increments. This wasn't exactly subtle: he was driving 20 miles per day, but the odometer was clocking 72.35 miles/day.》

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs (15 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#teslatakedown #FuckMusk

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/

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A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene.

Image:
Steve Jurvetson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_Model_S_Indoors.jpg

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Machina economicus; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/14/timmy-share/

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An engraved illustration from a 1903 French edition of HG Wells's 'War of the Worlds.' It shows a shadow street scene in which revelers are spilling out of a nightclub, oblivious to the looming 'tripod' Martian at the end of the block. It has been modified. The Martian's eyes now emit two beams of brown light that strike the revelers, who have been tinted red, making it appear as though they are being cooked by lasers. Behind the skyline looms a giant poop emoji.

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: Blue Cross of Louisiana doesn't give a shit about breast cancer; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/12/pre-authorization/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: Zuckerberg in the dock; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/11/it-is-better-to-buy/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: The most remarkable thing about antitrust (that no one talks about); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/10/solidarity-forever/

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A massive Earth Day demonstration in 1970, with a speaker in the foreground, his back to the camera, standing at a podium. The image has been modified: the speaker has been tinted green, the audience has been tinted red. Between the speaker and the audience marches a gleeful skeleton, pounding on a snare drum with drumsticks made of human femur-bones. The skeleton wears a top-hat. It is haloed in flaring light.

Image:
umseas (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/snre/34605145761/

CC BY 2.0
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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: EFF's lawsuit against DOGE will go forward; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/09/cases-and-controversy/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Tariffs and monopolies; and more!

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A scene in which a line of paupers queue up to be given a pie by Uncle Sam, who has been modified so he has Trump's hair. To one side of the scene are three caricatured plutocrats, gorging on pie. The background is a US flag.

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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Inside: How the world's leading breach expert got phished; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/05/troy-hunt/

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A vintage photo of a fisherman in an old-fashioned, one-piece bathing suit holding aloft a long fishing rod from which dangles a fish. The image has been tinted. The fisherman's head has been replaced with a cliched 'hacker in a hoodie' head. Beneath the fish is a rippling pond made up of the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the credit sequences of Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies.

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

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