By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026So what consumer advice do I have for people who are angry about this? I don't have *any* consumer advice, I'm afraid. You can't shop your way out of a monopoly. Once again, shopping *is not politics*. 82/ 1586
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026What I have for you is *political* advice. To restore the beams and beat back entropy again, we need a better *system*, not more virtuous individuals. If you feel - as I do - that "the world has moved on," then to wrench it back, you will have to join a *polity*. 83/ 37317
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026Support activist groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the digital rights group I've been at for the past 25 years: supporters.eff.org/donate/join-... 84/supporters.eff.orgJoin EFFDonate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and support the mission to defend civil liberties and human rights online. You can help EFF’s attorneys, activists, and technologists protect privacy,... 1539
Vania @dawookie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026It's BOTH. Individual AND culture. Every brain is in RELATIONSHIP with reality. Reality LOVERS (not eaters) should lead. Kids SHOULD be trained via operant conditioning to reduce harm. But WE train for profit. Profit IS harm. So, stop mindlessly consuming and think about WHO. we. eat. 000
Abigail Breiseth @abinbaltimore.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Thank you for this monster master thread from someone who has too much reading to do already. Clarity, even when looking at evil, is a balm. 171
