By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55. 10457130
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/09/15/b...pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 1707
M @malvartinez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his novel Catch-22. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” 113726
Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Fun coïncidence: in 2001, as I was flying myself from VA to CA, I stopped in Fargo, ND for fuel. I was standing at a men's-room urinal when in walked Jeff Bezos and some of the crew of the bizjet he was riding in. He strolled up to the adjacent urinal and took a piss. I'm now dying at this picture. 0322
Elio Quiroga @elioquiroga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Piss 1st (pun intended; can't update the artwork). 000
DrBoss @abrainiac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026he is singularly, remarkably unlikeable asshole I will never support Amazon 000
Wes Miller @getwired.com · 15/09/2026Is… is that jar supposed to make me think of Piss Christ, or am I imagining it? 050
