Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Trump and the unmighty dollar; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Trump and the unmighty dollar; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-d…
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Michael Opalinski
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Spontaneously Deliberate
in reply to Michael Opalinski • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Spontaneously Deliberate • • •@spontaneouslydeliberate @MichaelOpal
Isn't it weird that websites that want the reader to read to the end of the article to maximize ad revenue?
Then place as many "strobes & firecrackers" distractions in their way? (Even chat AI boxes that obscures the text)
Load so slowly, that the reader just copies & pastes the link & reads it via the internet archive.
Excessive ads are what's killing cable.
People having to record a show so they can fast forward through the bullsh*t ads.
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bouriquet
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'll be in #Ottawa on WEDNESDAY (Jan 28) at Perfect Books:
instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/
And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on FRIDAY (Jan 30):
nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doct…
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Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu: Enshittification and Extraction
NOW TorontoCory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Sensitive content
Trump and the unmighty dollar: "Flipping the table over in a poker game rigged in your favor because you resent having to pretend to play the game at all."
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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
* Kyle Crutcher pottery brandbeorn.com/Sci-Fi.html
* Avi Lewis endorsed by authors Maté, Doctorow, Martel, Taylor, Aguirre, and Douglas bsky.app/profile/avilewis.ca/p…
* AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte theregister.com/2026/01/21/del…
* Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/01/2…
* MPLS church has delivered more than 12K boxes of groceries to families in hiding mprnews.org/episode/2026/01/15…
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AI hasn't delivered the profits it was hyped for, says Deloitte
Thomas Claburn (The Register)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Universal DRM dystopia tarmle.livejournal.com/80182.h…
#20yrsago Library’s one-year anniversary of lending video-games gamingtarget.com/article.php?a…
#20yrsago UK music industry execs can’t talk straight about DRM web.archive.org/web/2006020309…
#20yrsago BBC report on UK gamers from 6-65 web.archive.org/web/2006020706…
#20yrsago Norwegian ombudsman to review iTunes terms of service web.archive.org/web/2007020816…
#20yrsago Google Cache is legal web.archive.org/web/2006013021…
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Burnoff: Part 1 - The Bad Guys Win
tarmle.livejournal.comCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago NSA’s licensable patent portfolio web.archive.org/web/2006011610…
#20yrsago Senators figure out the Broadcast Flag, curse it as an abomination! web.archive.org/web/2006013021…
#20yrsago HOWTO turn a disposable camera into an RFID-killer events.ccc.de/congress/2005/wi…
#20yrsago World of Warcraft: Don’t tell anyone you’re queer web.archive.org/web/2006013119…
#15yrsago PirateBox: anonymous, stand-alone wireless filesharing node web.archive.org/web/2011012920…
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EFF: DeepLinks
web.archive.orgCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Where antibiotic resistant superbugs come from: biology explained at a “3d grade reading level” slideshare.net/slideshow/devel…
#15yrsago Provocative metaphor for the Irish bailout memex.naughtons.org/how-a-bail…
#15yrsago Douglas Adams’ online encylopedia tries to buy itself back from the BBC web.archive.org/web/2011012710…
#15yrsago Ebert: 3D movies suck web.archive.org/web/2011013123…
#15yrsago Anti-capitalist rumba rave in a Spanish bank youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5dh8v7mD…
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Rumba Rave "banquero" en el Santander realizado por www.flo6X8.com
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Meet Obama’s new Solicitor General: the copyright industry’s Donald Verrilli Jr arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#10yrsago The story of magic: how narrative destroys conjurers’ effects, or elevates them to transcendence thejerx.com/blog/2016/1/23/dqw…
#10yrsago Majority of UK booze-industry revenues come from problem drinkers theguardian.com/society/2016/j…
#10yrsago Oklahoma’s repeat-offender Republican Creationist lawmakers take another run at science education arstechnica.com/science/2016/0…
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For Connecting
Andy Lastname (The Jerx)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago You can’t “boost” your immune system with “health food,” nor would you want to theguardian.com/science/2016/j…
#10yrsago Stop taking “probiotics” statnews.com/2016/01/21/probio…
#10yrsago Swiss pro-privacy email provider forces a referendum on mass surveillance web.archive.org/web/2016012515…
#10yrsago Howto social-engineer someone’s address and other sensitive info from Amazon medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-…
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Why bingeing on health foods won’t boost your immune system
Dara Mohammadi (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Uptown Funk as a mashup of 66 classic movie dance routines youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnk…
#10yrsago Starve: the best, meanest new graphic novel debut since Transmetropolitan memex.craphound.com/2016/01/25…
#10yrsago Fury Road is still comprehensible at 12x speed vashivisuals.com/the-fastest_c…
#10yrsago Police sergeant: 16 year old girl probably saw penises before I showed her mine, NBD wcvb.com/article/bpd-sergeant-…
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The Fastest Cut: Furious Film Editing
Vashi Nedomansky, ACE (VashiVisuals)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Chinese snatch-squads roam the globe, kidnapping dissidents and critics web.archive.org/web/2016041621…
#10yrsago Shootout in Oregon: one terrorist killed, eight arrested cnn.com/2016/01/26/us/oregon-w…
#10yrsago Health insurer loses 1m customers’ health records web.archive.org/web/2017022404…
#10yrsago All your booze comes from a handful of titanic global corporations eater.com/drinks/2016/1/26/108…
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Who Owns Your Favorite Liquor Brands?
Jake Emen (Eater)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Man gasps dying words into officer’s bodycam: “They’re killing me right now… I can’t breathe.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#10yrsago Help wanted: Burning Man’s Chief Fed web.archive.org/web/2016020512…
#5yrsago Goldman CEO gets $17.5m reward for $4.5b fraud pluralistic.net/2021/01/27/vir…
#5yrsago Facebook champions (its own) privacy pluralistic.net/2021/01/27/vir…
#5yrsago Casino mogul steals First Nation's vaccine pluralistic.net/2021/01/27/vir…
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Body cam captures man’s final words—begging the cops to get off of him
David Kravets (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Plute buys mayor's house and serves eviction papers pluralistic.net/2021/01/25/mon…
#5yrsago Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge pluralistic.net/2021/01/24/1a/…
#5yrsago Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government" pluralistic.net/2021/01/24/1a/…
#1yrago The first days of Boss Politics Antitrust pluralistic.net/2025/01/24/enf…
#1yrago It's not a crime if we do it with an app pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/#carbo-loading
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Pluralistic: 23 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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#1yrago It's pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actually pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/bel…
#20yrsago Danny O’Brien’s Open Source con presentation on Evil spesh.com/danny/talks/evil/
#20yrsago Can DRM be future-proof? blog.citp.princeton.edu/2006/0…
#15yrsago Francis Ford Coppola, copyfighter web.archive.org/web/2011012503…
#15yrsago HOWTO make health-care cheaper by spending more on patients who need it web.archive.org/web/2014072722…
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CD DRM: Compatibility and Software Updates - CITP Blog
Ed Felten (CITP Blog)Cory Doctorow
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#15yrsago William Gibson on Stuxnet nytimes.com/2011/01/27/opinion…
#10yrsago Guess who donated all the money to Black Americans for a Better Future Super PAC? Rich white men. web.archive.org/web/2016012900…
#10yrsago Bill Gates sold rights to the Tiananmen 1989 pictures to a Chinese company qz.com/601830/bill-gates-has-s…
#10yrsago Michael Moore: Flint needs a revolution, not bottled water web.archive.org/web/2016012816…
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Don't Send Bottled Water
Michael MooreCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago The surveillance business model goes to war against the FTC thehill.com/blogs/congress-blo…
#10yrsago Florida mayors write to GOP presidential hopefuls demanding action on climate change arstechnica.com/science/2016/0…
#10yrsago The Onion’s new owner is Hillary Clinton’s most lavish financial backer web.archive.org/web/2016012621…
#10yrsago Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen wipes out coral reef with his superyacht caymannewsservice.com/2016/01/…
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Florida mayors to Rubio: We’re going under, take climate change seriously
John Timmer (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Head of NSA’s hacker squad explains how to armor networks against the likes of him wired.com/2016/01/nsa-hacker-c…
#10yrsago Anaheim: the happiest surveillance state on earth arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#5yrsago Knowledge is why you build your own apps pluralistic.net/2021/01/28/pay…
#5yrsago Understanding /r/wallstreetbets pluralistic.net/2021/01/28/pay…
#5yrsago How apps steal your location pluralistic.net/2021/01/28/pay…
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City cops in Disneyland’s backyard have had “stingray on steroids” for years
Cyrus Farivar (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Mexican indigenous telco wins spectrum fight pluralistic.net/2021/01/28/pay…
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Pluralistic: 28 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Thursday's threads: The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating ungovernability as a habit; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2026-01-22 18:56:43
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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GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Is remarkable as well that the people who benefit the most from dollar dominance, which are the US billionaires are blowing up the system that’s responsible largely for their power. They fantasize that they can exit the world and solidify totalitarian control in the process.
I think the world is a little bit larger than what they think it is
Raymond Russell
in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •Its the classic argument that also applies to the very wealthy paying a bit more tax. They seem to want to collapse the society which has allowed them to be prosperous.
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Raymond Russell • • •@raymierussell
It is very difficult to use the word seem when this is their stated public goal.
They aren't hiding it. They just don't make press releases on the topic, but they do discuss collapsing modern states (US or any nation) in their public fora whether those are conventions or online.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •@GhostOnTheHalfShell @raymierussell
The Rockbridge shill Chris Buskirk is keen on the subject of a return to aristocracy, despots, & corporate feudalism after the apocalypse.
You know, the world where 99% of the population is on a knife edge of famine, war, & disease.
What's scary about a Trump-controlled financial system is this:
Billionaire donors getting money taken from blue city bank accounts.
rollingstone.com/politics/poli…
nymag.com/intelligencer/articl…
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
Can Donald Trump Arbitrarily Take Money from Anyone’s Bank Account?
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