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Inside: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/mod…
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Cory Doctorow
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AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit: In case there was ever any doubt.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11621249…
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Cory Doctorow (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Assassination markets are legal now but Trump doesn’t have to worry protos.com/assassination-marke…
* You Are Being Lied to About Algorithms usermag.co/p/you-are-being-lie…
* States’ trial against Live Nation could move forward as soon as next week theverge.com/policy/892353/liv…
* Neuromancer / Count Zero / Mona Lisa Overdrive macintoshgarden.org/apps/neuro… (h/t Kottke)
* Judge Slams Secret DOJ-Live Nation Settlement Process as "Mind-boggling" bigtechontrial.com/p/judge-sla…
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You Are Being Lied to About Algorithms
Taylor Lorenz (User Mag)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago History of the Disney Haunted Mansion’s stretching portraits longforgottenhauntedmansion.bl…
#15yrsago Readers Against DRM (logo) web.archive.org/web/2011031121…
#15yrsago Lost Souls: Audio adaptation of a classic vampire novel memex.craphound.com/2011/03/10…
#15yrsago Time‘s appraisal of the first WorldCon web.archive.org/web/2008090618…
#15yrsago Insipid thrift-store landscapes improved with monsters imgur.com/involuntary-collabor…
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"Involuntary Collaborations: I buy other people's landscape paintings at yard sales and Goodwill and put monsters in them. " - /r/pics (+2780) [March 11, 2011]
ImgurCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Fight 8-track piracy with this 1976 record sleeve flickr.com/photos/supraterra/5…
#15yrsago Michigan Republicans create “financial martial law”; appointees to replace elected local officials web.archive.org/web/2012040912…
#10yrsago Lawsuit reveals Obama’s DoJ sabotaged Freedom of Information Act transparency web.archive.org/web/2016030918…
#10yrsago If the FBI can force decryption backdoors, why not backdoors to turn on your phone’s camera? theguardian.com/technology/201…
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FBI could force us to turn on iPhone cameras and microphones, says Apple
Samuel Gibbs (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Disgruntled IS defector dumps full details of tens of thousands of jihadis web.archive.org/web/2016033006…
#10yrsago Using distributed code-signatures to make it much harder to order secret backdoors arstechnica.com/information-te…
#10yrsago Open Source Initiative says standards aren’t open unless they protect security researchers and interoperability web.archive.org/web/2019082205…
#1yrago Eggflation is excuseflation pluralistic.net/2025/03/10/dem…
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Cothority to Apple: Let’s make secret backdoors impossible
Ars Staff (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Ad-tech is fascist tech; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11620583…
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Cory Doctorow (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)Cory Doctorow
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Cory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
craphound.com/shop/
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Craphound Shop
Craphound ShopCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Barcelona: Enshittification with Simona Levi/Xnet (Llibreria Finestres), Mar 20
llibreriafinestres.com/evento/…
* #Berkeley: Bioneers keynote, Mar 27
conference.bioneers.org/
* #Montreal: Bronfman Lecture (McGill) Apr 10
eventbrite.ca/e/artificial-int…
* #London: Resisting Big Tech Empires (LSBU)
tickettailor.com/events/global…
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Bioneers 2026 Conference - Bioneers Conference
Bioneers ConferenceCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sp…
* #Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-d…
* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
howthelightgetsin.org/festival…
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#rp26-Sprecher Cory Doctorow | re:publica
republicaCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Launch for Cindy's Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights)
youtube.com/watch?v=WuVCm2PUal…
* Chicken Mating Harnesses (This Week in Tech)
twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tec…
* The Virtual Jewel Box (U Utah)
tanner.utah.edu/podcast/enshit…
* Tanner Humanities Lecture (U Utah)
youtube.com/watch?v=i6Yf1nSyek…
* The Lost Cause
streets.mn/2026/03/02/book-clu…
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Book Club: The Lost Cause - Streets.mn
Ian R Buck (Streets.mn)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: AI “journalists” prove that media bosses don’t give a shit (11 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm also on Bluesky. Read today's thread there at:
bsky.app/profile/doctorow.plur…
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oscarfalcon
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"For these AI boosters, the point isn't to create an AI that can do the work as well as a person – it's to condition the world to accept the lower-quality work that will come from a chatbot"...
This has been going around in my mind for a while now, it bugs the hell out of me because I see people NOT getting it; in my profession and chosen career -architecture- some people actually think AI helps, I definitely think it doesn't and fuck AI.