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ArgellaStone @argellastone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I support Rahm Emanuel running for President because he might distract the wrecker caucus online long enough that they fail to ratfuck the actual eventual winner because they were so obsessed with making sure he failed to reach 5% in New Hampshire.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THAT IS NOT THE SAME THING AS SAYING AN ASSAULT WAS CONSENSUAL

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Writing Disrupted @writingdisrupted.bsky.social · 3h

Another excellent thread from @doctorow.pluralistic.net on IP, copyright, and AI. I haven't always agreed with his take on copyright vs. AI, but I think this argument makes sense.

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Ali Grotkowski @alikira.bsky.social · 6h

I really enjoyed the talk by @doctorow.pluralistic.net in Edmonton supporting the Edmonton Public Library. I only wish I could be more optimistic about the direction the world were going.

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JennyB @iheartmaps.bsky.social · 9h

I don't know how to deal with you if you read these and don't feel an immense ache for the lack of humanity we are showing to our neighbors.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 10h

I started tracking and I've spent roughly 20 hours on the phone dealing with doctor office, insurance AND pharmacy errors versus 45 minutes total of actual face to face care in the past six months. Not an exaggeration

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En sorts författare @beardonaut.bsky.social · 10h

Hörde Cory Doctorow prata om detta i en intervju med Jon Stewart. Hur man minimerar lönerna för sjuksköterskor baserat på hur utsatta de är finansiellt. Ren ondska.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 8h

516 words on “Once Is Enemy Action,” a science fiction novel about the origins of modern technofascism. (202258 words total) #dailywords

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10h

1978 subway poster for Battlestar Galactica. Art by Robert Tanenbaum. www.tumblr.com/humanoidhist...

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 11h

What?!

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USEDUNIVERSE @useduniverse.bsky.social · 10h

A24's 'Blastrooms'

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 11h

Jfc. Never think they're not gunning for you, it's not paranoia.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11h

Sean Connery on location in Istanbul while filming 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 (1963). atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/8291003...

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iiradned.bsky.social @iiradned.bsky.social · 12h

Much of the Neoliberal school of thought needs to go the way of the dodo.

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Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own @galsh.bsky.social · 12h

Bookmarking #books

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12h

That'll definitely work in quieting the story.

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sam @samthielman.com · 12h

The worst thing is the silhouetted figure is Shaquille O’Neal

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Send Us Thine Asteroid, O Lord @dragovian.bsky.social · 21h

Like all forms of property rights, "IP" has severe limitations that can only be addressed by applying a different framework to your disputes. Think of the way that the expansion of copyright has failed creative workers. For 50 years, we've monotonically expanded copyright in every dimension, so that today, copyright covers more works, restricts more uses and inflicts higher statutory penalties.

Over those 50 years, media companies have gotten richer and more profitable while the creative workers whose art these media companies sell have gotten poorer, both in real terms and as a share of the earnings our labor generates for our bosses. This seems like a paradox at first, but really, it's just a built-in feature of property law: that people who have assets but lack bargaining leverage end up selling those assets for peanuts.

In a market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two app companies and one ebook/audiobook company, giving a creative worker more to bargain with is just giving them more to bargain away. Giving us more copyright is like giving a bullied schoolkid more lunch money: no amount of lunch money will get that kid fed.

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Fando Fonts @fandofonts.bsky.social · 14h

Esto del @doctorow.pluralistic.net explica muchos de los problemas que tenemos hoy día con pa vivienda y con muchas cosas más: la primacía del derecho de la propiedad sobre el resto de los derechos

"Property" is the established catechism of the Church of Late-Stage Capitalism.
"Property" is the most sacrosanct right in public orthodoxy, elevated above every other right. My property right lets me destroy perfectly good food while you starve outside my door:

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Tony Lock @tonylock.bsky.social · 14h

@doctorow.pluralistic.net has a very clear explanation about why this "criti-hype" is part of a push to get regulation and thus protection from OS models and protection from competitors: www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

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Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition

The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist

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Software Engineering Daily @softwaredaily.bsky.social · 14h

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss the dynamics between AI, work, and power. @doctorow.pluralistic.net softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/cor...

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Cory Doctorow on AI, Work, and Power - Software Engineering Daily

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist. He joins Joshua Goldberg to discuss the dynamics between AI, work, and power.

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Ernest 🇺🇸 @earnestlib.bsky.social · 13h

Reminds me of the Nakagin building in Tokyo

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thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/8290990...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12h

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Lindsay Owens's "Gouged"; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/29/a... #Pluralistic

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12h

Lindsay Owens is the executive director of Groundwork Collaborative, who have done some of the most important work on surveillance pricing (using computers to spy on you to rip you off) and algorithmic wage discrimination (using computers to spy on you and steal your wages).

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Texas as sci fi novel setting. On Amazon’s delivery drones “raining boxes” in a Dallas suburb: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...

Screenshot of text: "Before the drones arrived, Richardson was a suburb known as a hub for tech and telecom, and its residents were already living with technology’s intrusions. A massive new A.I. data center sits across the street from one neighborhood, and as recently as last month, 20 Flock cameras, which read license plates and track vehicles, were used at 14 major intersections.

But for those people living closest to the Amazon flight paths, the ever-droning deliveries pose the most serious threat to their private and peaceful life."

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Westin Lee @westinlee.itch.io · 28/09/2026

Solid and essential essay for creative pros from Cory today about why IP is an exploitive term. And yeah, the New York Times going after AI companies for IP theft is nice, but also, it's two giants arguing over who gets to eat the largest number of us.

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joão @johnfields091.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thread pertinente, como sempre. O Cory Doctorow tem insistido imenso na questão dos direitos laborais (por oposição aos direitos de autor), e diria ter toda a razão nestes casos.

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iiradned.bsky.social @iiradned.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The most valuable things in the world aren't property, and describing them as property would cheapen them. Human beings aren't property. Priceful @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/09/28/c...

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Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (Part of a longer thread; essay version available in a link further up thread)

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Annelise @mxannelise.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As usual, great stuff from Cory. This essay digs deep into the myriad kinds of things that are lumped into the idea of IP, and makes a very interesting argument about how to think about the “P” part

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now I need to write something that will let me cite a Nature article citing @doctorow.pluralistic.net Maybe Unauthorized Bread, but with solar panels www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Smart energy must address enshittification risks - Nature Energy

Nature Energy - Smart energy must address enshittification risks

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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also attaching this second post by The Nerve of an additional part to Cory's @doctorow.pluralistic.net article plus another choice quote: "Freaking out about superintelligence is a canonical example of ‘criti-hype’, where critics repeat boosters' claims but append ‘(and that's bad)’ to them"

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Matthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not the point of Cory’s post but: I had an itch between own my shoulders. Felt amazing when my husband scratched it. One night I described where it was. “I know,“ he says. “Same spot as always.” It what, now? Cancer, y’all. Rogue flesh the size of a matchbox car. Not visible from the surface.

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Clancy Ratliff @culturecat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was watching Bob's Burgers with my son on Hulu and this ad came up. I find it a sad example of @doctorow.pluralistic.net's idea of the reverse centaur. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd0U...

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Solo Dinner | Instacart

YouTube video by Instacart

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Stephen Tustin @stustin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Virtually every vendor you engage with, from your landlord to your corner deli, wants you to install an app whose terms of service requires you to sign away all of your privacy rights, forever, in exchange for nothing." - @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/09/28/c...

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Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Xiangul @xiangul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nur falls jemand mal der Meinung sein sollte ein Thread könnte zu lang sein.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Priceful; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/28/c... #Pluralistic

A pastoral landscape with a cablecar system running overhead. A procession of old-timey cash registers are being moved through the sky on it.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026

Digital rights activists have long railed at the use of the term "IP," criticizing it for being deceptively imprecise and also rhetorically dishonest. I get where these objections are coming from, but I think they're misguided.

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raycorrigan.bsky.social @raycorrigan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"When an industry that is eating itself alive through hyperscaling demands that the government bless a conspiracy to halt competition and ban open-source alternatives, you should be suspicious." @doctorow.pluralistic.net

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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is probably a point in the bubble inflation where the fact that a lot of really key people involved in AI companies are, no exaggeration, in a cult centered around AI.

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Damon Charles @damonmakespictures.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wondering why you've seen so many "Ai Company / Mouthpiece Says We Need Cooperation To Stop Ai Destroying Humanity" stories lately? Wonder no more - Here's another one of those "Summed up something I've been struggling to articulate" articles from @doctorow.pluralistic.net.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026

Vintage Poster Radar Patrol vs. Spy King 12 Chapter Serial Starring Kirk Alyn, Jean Dean, George J. Lewis And Eve Whitney Republic (1949) wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/8289602...

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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Why have the world's wealthiest investors been so eager to hand over *trillions* to finance this bubble?" —Cory Doctorow

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026

“Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable… [essentially] the companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

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Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition

The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026

Excellent column from @doctorow.pluralistic.net - includes a run down of the tech sector’s history of cartel-adjacent behaviour including THIS three decade agreement btw 40 companies not to poach engineers. chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_econ...

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The Silicon Valley No-Poach Conspiracy

The Silicon Valley no-poach conspiracy is the most important cartel no one has heard of. It is rarely discussed in the cartel literature and is lost to public memory. More than forty tech firms, inclu...

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Rikard Linde 🇮🇷 🇺🇦 @rikardlinde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@doctorow.pluralistic.net om konkreta hot och lösningar i kontrast mot ai- företagens fantasier, med slutsatsen: "demand better security practices from firms and governments" pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 28/09/2026

COMING UP: @doctorow.pluralistic.net will be at the @greenparty.org.uk Conference Fringe this year. Join us for this special event exploring 'Digital Sovereignty and the Post-American Internet: What the Greens can do to escape Big Tech'. 🗓️ Sat 3 October 🕠️ 5.45-6.45pm 📍 Brighton Find out more ⬇️

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Digital Sovereignty and the Post-American Internet

What the Greens can do to escape Big Tech Trump has given every country the means, motive and opportunity to build a new, good Internet, free from the geopolitical imperatives America foisted on the…

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