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Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic: the epstein class and collapse porn (09 feb 2026)

pluralistic: end of the line for video essays (07 feb 2026)

pluralistic: luxury kafka (06 feb 2026)

pluralistic: all laws are local (05 feb 2026)

pluralistic: justin key's "the hospital at the end of the world" (04 feb 2026)

pluralistic: michael swanwick's "the universe box" (03 feb 2026)

pluralistic: stock swindles (02 feb 2026)

pluralistic: threads' margin is the eurostack's opportunity (30 jan 2026)

pluralistic: disenshittification nation (29 jan 2026)

pluralistic: carney isn't a hero (and that's ok) (27 jan 2026)

pluralistic: trump and the unmighty dollar (26 jan 2026)

pluralistic: the petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit (22 jan 2026)

pluralistic: google's ai pricing plan (21 jan 2026)

pluralistic: ai is how bosses wage war on "professions" (20 jan 2026)

pluralistic: social media without socializing (19 jan 2026)

pluralistic: the world needs an ireland for disenshittification (17 jan 2026)

pluralistic: catch this! (16 jan 2026)

pluralistic: how the light gets in (15 jan 2026)

pluralistic: it's not normal (14 jan 2026)

pluralistic: sorry, eh (13 jan 2026)

pluralistic: a winning trade war strategy for canada (11 jan 2026)

pluralistic: predistribution vs redistribution (big tech edition) (10 jan 2026)

pluralistic: bunnie's piggyback hack (09 jan 2026)

pluralistic: where did the money go? (08 jan 2026)

pluralistic: writing vs ai (07 jan 2026)

pluralistic: code is a liability (not an asset) (06 jan 2026)

pluralistic: a world without people (05 jan 2026)

pluralistic: the post-american internet (01 jan 2026)

pluralistic: a perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 dec 2025)

pluralistic: happy public domain day 2026! (17 dec 2025)

pluralistic: america's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 dec 2025)

pluralistic: break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 dec 2025)

pluralistic: federal wallet inspectors (13 dec 2025)

pluralistic: instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 dec 2025)

pluralistic: big tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane (09 dec 2025)

pluralistic: elon musk's blue tick scam (08 dec 2025)

pluralistic: metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" (06 dec 2025)

pluralistic: the reverse-centaur’s guide to criticizing ai (05 dec 2025)

pluralistic: a year in illustration (2025 edition) (03 dec 2025)

pluralistic: all the books i reviewed in 2025 (02 dec 2025)

pluralistic: meta's new top eu regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting meta's feelings (01 dec 2025)

pluralistic: (digital) elbows up (28 nov 2025)

pluralistic: normie diffusion and technophilia (27 nov 2025)

pluralistic: o(n^2) nationalism (26 nov 2025)

pluralistic: google steers americans looking for health care into "junk insurance" (25 nov 2025)

pluralistic: cooking in maximum security (24 nov 2025)

pluralistic: boss preppers (22 nov 2025)

pluralistic: the long game (20 nov 2025)

pluralistic: disney lost roger rabbit (18 nov 2025)

pluralistic: the games industry's self-induced traumatic brain injury (17 nov 2025)

pluralistic: zorhan mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker (15 nov 2025)

pluralistic: for-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 nov 2025)

pluralistic: a tale of three customer service chatbots (12 nov 2025)

pluralistic: theodora goss's 'letters from an imaginary country' (11 nov 2025)

pluralistic: "flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 nov 2025)

pluralistic: facebook's fraud files (08 nov 2025)

pluralistic: the enshittification of labor (07 nov 2025)

pluralistic: the 40-year economic mistake that let google conquer (and enshittify) the world (06 nov 2025)

pluralistic: "science comics computers: how digital hardware works" (05 nov 2025)

pluralistic: there's one thing every government can do to shrink big tech (01 nov 2025)

pluralistic: the internet was made for privacy (31 oct 2025)

pluralistic: when ai prophecy fails (29 oct 2025)

pluralistic: raymond beisinger's "9 times my work has been ripped off" (28 oct 2025)

pluralistic: shake shack wants you to shit yourself to death (27 oct 2025)

pluralistic: checking in on the state of amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 oct 2025)

pluralistic: carl hiaasen's 'fever beach' (21 oct 2025)

pluralistic: the mad king's digital killswitch (20 oct 2025)

pluralistic: the ai that we'll have after ai (16 oct 2025)

pluralistic: microsoft, tear down that wall! (15 oct 2025)

pluralistic: how to fix the uk housing crisis (13 oct 2025)

pluralistic: the curious, intertwined history of climate and digital rights activism (11 oct 2025)

pluralistic: a disenshittification moment from the land of mass storage (10 oct 2025)

pluralistic: california bans algorithmic price-fixing (09 oct 2025)

pluralistic: they're just trying to earn a buck (07 oct 2025)

pluralistic: apple's unlawful evil (06 oct 2025)

pluralistic: blue bonds (04 oct 2025)

pluralistic: when your isp pays you (03 oct 2025)

pluralistic: decarbonization at a distance (02 oct 2025)

pluralistic: announcing the enshittification tour (30 sep 2025)

pluralistic: plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack) (29 sep 2025)

pluralistic: the real (economic) ai apocalypse is nigh (27 sep 2025)

pluralistic: apple threatens to stop selling iphones in the eu (26 sep 2025)

pluralistic: rage against the (algorithmic management) machine (25 sep 2025)

pluralistic: the billionaires aren't ok (24 sep 2025)

pluralistic: the enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 sep 2025)

pluralistic: it's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the first amendment) (22 sep 2025)

pluralistic: ai psychosis and the warped mirror (18 sep 2025)

pluralistic: conspiratorialism's causal chain (17 sep 2025)

pluralistic: no such thing as selective censorship resistance (16 sep 2025)

pluralistic: wallet voting (13 sep 2025)

pluralistic: reverse centaurs are the answer to the ai paradox (11 sep 2025)

pluralistic: hate the player and the game (10 sep 2025)

pluralistic: trump steals $400b from american workers (09 sep 2025)

pluralistic: fingerspitzengefühl (08 sep 2025)

pluralistic: stock buybacks are stock swindles (06 sep 2025)

pluralistic: why wikipedia works (05 sep 2025)

pluralistic: canny valley (04 sep 2025)

pluralistic: the worst possible antitrust outcome (03 sep 2025)

pluralistic: all (antitrust) politics are local (02 sep 2025)

pluralistic: darth android (01 sep 2025)

pluralistic: a weekend's worth of links (30 aug 2025)

pluralistic: the capitalism of fools (28 aug 2025)

pluralistic: by all means, tread on those people (26 aug 2025)

pluralistic: enshittification, the audiobook (the kickstarter) (25 aug 2025)

pluralistic: friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed (23 aug 2025)

pluralistic: radical juries (22 aug 2025)

pluralistic: melissa mendes's "the weight" (21 aug 2025)

pluralistic: become unoptimizable (20 aug 2025)

pluralistic: charlie jane anders' "lessons in magic and disaster." (19 aug 2025)

pluralistic: zuckermuskian solopsism (18 aug 2025)

pluralistic: llms are slot-machines (16 aug 2025)

pluralistic: bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 aug 2025)

pluralistic: "privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 aug 2025)

pluralistic: maga's boss class think they are immune to american carnage (13 aug 2025)

pluralistic: goodhart's law (of ai) (11 aug 2025)

pluralistic: millionaire on billionaire violence (10 aug 2025)

pluralistic: good ideas are popular (07 aug 2025)

pluralistic: which jobs can be replaced with ai? (06 aug 2025)

pluralistic: bragging about replacing coders with ai is a sales-pitch (05 aug 2025)

pluralistic: ai software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 aug 2025)

pluralistic: ai's pogo-stick grift (02 aug 2025)

pluralistic: mattie lubchansky's 'simplicity' (01 aug 2025)

pluralistic: you can't fight enshittification (31 jul 2025)

pluralistic: delta's ai-based price-gouging (30 jul 2025)

pluralistic: boss-politics antitrust and the maga crackup (29 jul 2025)

pluralistic: how twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 jul 2025)

pluralistic: iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination (26 jul 2025)

pluralistic: trump's fcc abandons the future (24 jul 2025)

pluralistic: installing android phones in blackberry chassis (23 jul 2025)

pluralistic: conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 jul 2025)

pluralistic: how my drm-free principles left me owning the rights to a german audiobook (21 jul 2025)

pluralistic: conspiratorialism and neoliberalism (19 jul 2025)

pluralistic: maga crackup (18 jul 2025)

pluralistic: ellen ullman's "close to the machine" (16 jul 2025)

pluralistic: when google's slop meets webslop, search stops (15 jul 2025)

pluralistic: semantic drift versus ethical drift (14 jul 2025)

pluralistic: trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor (03 jul 2025)

pluralistic: tessa hulls's "feeding ghosts" (2 jul 2025)

pluralistic: how much (little) are the ai companies making? (30 jun 2025)

pluralistic: antitrust defies politics' law of gravity (28 jun 2025)

pluralistic: bill griffith's 'three rocks' (27 jun 2025)

pluralistic: surveillance is inequality's stabilizer (26 jun 2025)

pluralistic: what's a "public internet?" (25 jun 2025)

pluralistic: surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 jun 2025)

pluralistic: the case for a canadian wealth tax (23 jun 2025)

pluralistic: daniel de visé's 'the blues brothers' (21 jun 2025)

pluralistic: oregon bans the corporate practice of medicine (20 jun 2025)

pluralistic: your meta ai prompts are in a live, public feed (19 jun 2025)

pluralistic: the immortal choir holds every voice (18 jun 2025)

pluralistic: farewell (for the moment) (30 may 2025)

pluralistic: america is a scam (28 may 2025)

pluralistic: ai turns amazon coders into amazon warehouse workers (27 may 2025)

pluralistic: who broke the internet, part iv (26 may 2025)

pluralistic: drinkslump linkdump (24 may 2025)

pluralistic: strange bedfellows and long knives (21 may 2025)

pluralistic: the meritocracy to eugenics pipeline (20 may 2025)

pluralistic: who broke the internet? part iii (19 may 2025)

pluralistic: plinkpump linkdump (17 may 2025)

pluralistic: trump's cfpb kills data broker rule (15 may 2025)

pluralistic: are the means of computation even seizable? (14 may 2025)

pluralistic: who broke the internet? part ii (13 may 2025)

pluralistic: trump can't do anything for his base (12 may 2025)

pluralistic: who broke the internet? (08 may 2025)

pluralistic: mark zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 may 2025)

pluralistic: the adventures of mary darling (06 may 2025)

pluralistic: bridget read's 'little bosses everywhere' (05 may 2025)

pluralistic: ai and the fatfinger economy (02 may 2025)

pluralistic: apple faces criminal sanctions for defying app store antitrust order (01 may 2025)

pluralistic: republicans want to force students to pay off scam college loans (30 apr 2025)

pluralistic: mike lee and jim jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you (29 apr 2025)

pluralistic: the enshittification of tech jobs (27 apr 2025)

pluralistic: every complex ecosystem has parasites (24 apr 2025)

pluralistic: sarah wynn-williams's 'careless people' (23 apr 2025)

pluralistic: more everything forever (22 apr 2025)

pluralistic: trump's ftc opens the floodgates for tariff profiteering (21 apr 2025)

pluralistic: against transparency (19 apr 2025)

pluralistic: mark zuckerberg personally lost the facebook antitrust case (18 apr 2025)

pluralistic: trump fought the law and trump won (16 apr 2025)

pluralistic: tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs (15 apr 2025)

pluralistic: machina economicus (14 apr 2025)

pluralistic: blue cross of louisiana doesn't give a shit about breast cancer (12 apr 2025)

pluralistic: zuckerberg in the dock (11 apr 2025)

pluralistic: the most remarkable thing about antitrust (that no one talks about) (10 apr 2025)

pluralistic: eff's lawsuit against doge will go forward (09 apr 2025)

pluralistic: tariffs and monopolies (07 apr 2025)

pluralistic: how the world's leading breach expert got phished (05 apr 2025)

pluralistic: end-stage capitalism (04 apr 2025)

pluralistic: what's wrong with tariffs (02 apr 2025)

pluralistic: anyone who trusts an ai therapist needs their head examined (01 apr 2025)

pluralistic: private-sector trumpism (31 mar 2025)

pluralistic: #redfored rides again in la (29 mar 2025)

pluralistic: big tech and "captive audience venues" (28 mar 2025)

pluralistic: reality-based communities (27 mar 2025)

pluralistic: the aoc-sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing (26 mar 2025)

pluralistic: why i don't like ai art (25 mar 2025)

pluralistic: trump loves big tech (24 mar 2025)

pluralistic: twinkump linkdump (22 mar 2025)

pluralistic: ray nayler's "where the axe is buried" (20 mar 2025)

pluralistic: you can't save an institution by betraying its mission (19 mar 2025)

pluralistic: ai can't do your job (18 mar 2025)

pluralistic: david enrich's "murder the truth" (17 mar 2025)

pluralistic: amazon annihilates alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 mar 2025)

pluralistic: the future of amazon coders is the present of amazon warehouse workers (13 mar 2025)

pluralistic: firing the refs doesn't end the game (12 mar 2025)

pluralistic: daniel pinkwater's "jules, penny and the rooster" (11 mar 2025)

pluralistic: eggflation is excuseflation (10 mar 2025)

pluralistic: gandersauce (08 mar 2025)

pluralistic: two weak spots in big tech economics (06 mar 2025)

pluralistic: brother makes a demon-haunted printer (05 mar 2025)

pluralistic: there were always enshittifiers (04 mar 2025)

pluralistic: ideas lying around (03 mar 2025)

pluralistic: zincchump linkdump (01 mar 2025)

pluralistic: with great power came no responsibility (26 feb 2025)

pluralistic: apple's encryption capitulation (25 feb 2025)

pluralistic: how an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers (24 feb 2025)

pluralistic: we bullied hp into a minor act of disenshittification (22 feb 2025)

pluralistic: ad-tech targeting is an existential threat (20 feb 2025)

pluralistic: pluralistic is five (19 feb 2025)

pluralistic: america and "national capitalism" (18 feb 2025)

pluralistic: business school professors trained an ai to judge workers' personalities based on their faces (17 feb 2025)

pluralistic: skinnamarinkstump linkdump (15 feb 2025)

pluralistic: premature internet activists (13 feb 2025)

pluralistic: trump's tiktok two-step is a lesson for future presidents (12 feb 2025)

pluralistic: musk steals a billion dollars from low-income americans and sends it to intuit (11 feb 2025)

pluralistic: hugh d'andrade's "the murder next door" (10 feb 2025)

pluralistic: dinkscrump linkdump (08 feb 2025)

pluralistic: "the fagin figure leading elon musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets" (07 feb 2025)

pluralistic: announcing the picks and shovels book tour (06 feb 2025)

pluralistic: mlms are the mirror-world version of community organizing (04 feb 2025)

pluralistic: ron deibert's "chasing shadows" (04 feb 2025)

pluralistic: petard, part iv (03 feb 2025)

pluralistic: petard, part iii (01 feb 2025)

pluralistic: petard (part ii) (31 jan 2025)

pluralistic: petard (part i) (30 jan 2025)

pluralistic: all bets are off (29 jan 2025)

pluralistic: it's pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actually (27 jan 2025)

pluralistic: it's not a crime if we do it with an app (25 jan 2025)

pluralistic: the first days of boss politics antitrust (24 jan 2025)

pluralistic: defense (of the internet) (from billionaires) in depth (23 jan 2025)

pluralistic: keir starmer appoints jeff bezos as his "first buddy" (22 jan 2025)

pluralistic: enshittification isn't caused by venture capital (20 jan 2025)

pluralistic: pinkslump linkdump (18 jan 2025)

pluralistic: fu-schnickens (17 jan 2025)

pluralistic: canada shouldn't retaliate with us tariffs; picks and shovels chapter one (part 6 – conclusion) (15 jan 2025)

pluralistic: billionaire-proofing the internet; picks and shovels chapter one (part 5) (14 jan 2025)

pluralistic: they were warned; picks and shovels chapter one (part 4) (13 jan 2025)