Hacker News
- The Coprophagic AI Crisis https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/inhuman-centipede/ 9 comments
- I [Cory Doctorow] Got Scammed https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/ 18 comments
- 2024's public domain is a banger https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/em-oh-you-ess-ee/ 40 comments
- What kind of bubble is AI? https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/ 2 comments
- Amazon Is a Ripoff https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens 8 comments
- Amazon bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/release-energy/#the-bitterest-lemon 2 comments
- Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR's traffic https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/14/freedom-of-reach/ 194 comments
- One of America's most corporate-crime-friendly judges forced to recuse himself https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones 31 comments
- Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/ 27 comments
- Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon and Schuster https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/08/vampire-capitalism/#kkr 4 comments
- Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/#the-internet-con 172 comments
- Enshittification: How Platforms Die https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys1 10 comments
- Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors 199 comments
- This is Your Brain on Fraud Apologetics https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security 6 comments
- Poor people pay higher time tax https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/10/my-time/#like-water-down-the-drain 101 comments
- The public paid for “Moderna's” vaccine, and now we're going to pay again https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity 5 comments
- Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/22/allopathic-risk/ 74 comments
- This weekend, I watched a hacker jailbreak a John Deere tractor live on stage https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/15/deere-in-headlights/#doh-a-deere 3 comments
- A dark money group is lying about Medicare cuts https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/11/rope-a-dope/#cowards-and-lies 3 comments
- Uber's still not profitable https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/05/a-lousy-taxi/#a-giant-asterisk 19 comments
- After Inflation, the Whip-Crack https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/01/whip-it-good/#deflation 3 comments
- Schroedinger's streaming service just died https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/21/early-adopters/#heads-i-win 113 comments
- Inflation is caused by too little capacity https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/01/factories-to-condos-pipeline/#stuff-not-money 6 comments
- When crypto-exchanges go broke, you'll lose it all https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/03/liquidation-preference/#we-live-in-a-society 9 comments
- Machine learning’s crumbling foundations https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/19/failure-cascades/#dirty-data 101 comments
- Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925 https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fraught-superpowers/#public-domain-day 2 comments
- Amazon is a ripoff https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens 195 comments technology
- Eggflation is just more price-gouging https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/cant-make-an-omelet/ 4 comments economy
- Tiktok's enshittification — Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/ 68 comments technology
- Provost tried to surveil grad students in the Privacy Lab with heat sensors. It backfired. https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sensory-deprivation/#sensorship 19 comments privacy
- Moneylike: Writer Cory Doctorow offers insight into what makes money money and what might make cryptocurrency one too https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/16/nondiscretionary-liabilities/ 3 comments btc
- The biggest fallacy in the online privacy wars is that there is a difference between "state surveillance" and "commercial surveillance." https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/12/regulatory-uncapture/#conscious-uncoupling 129 comments privacy
- SPACs were hugely successful (for banks) https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/23/you-got-spacced/#the-house-always-wins 7 comments bogleheads
- "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local" https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/07/infrastructure-bill/#rural-electrification 2 comments technology
- How to be safer while using Telegram in Russia and Ukraine. [Cory Doctorow] https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/05/this-telegrams-a-rush/#harm-reduction 35 comments privacy
- Uber's time is up. Uber was never going to be profitable. Never. $UBER https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unter/#bezzle-no-more 239 comments investing
- How Ronald Reagan's "consumer welfare" theory of antitrust enforcement turned the country upside-down in a very bad way. https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era 55 comments economy
- Aaron Swartz, vindicated https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/04/aaronsw/#cfaa 8 comments technology
- Laundering torturers' reputations with copyfraud https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#dark-ops 2 comments technology
- Descartes' God has failed and Thompson's Satan rules our computers https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/05/trusting-trust/#thompsons-devil 17 comments programming
Linking pages
- Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/ 1767 comments
- Pluralistic: 21 Sep 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/21/monica-byrne/#think-different 1614 comments
- Pluralistic: 10 Aug 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/10/unter/#bezzle-no-more 707 comments
- Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-is-going-after-its-critics-in-the-name-of-privacy/ 486 comments
- Pluralistic: 14 Nov 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/14/still-the-product/#vizio 411 comments
- Pluralistic: 06 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/06/horrible-products/#inkwars 339 comments
- Pluralistic: 29 Jun 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/29/three-times-is-enemy-action/#ctc 319 comments
- Pluralistic: 28 Oct 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#cornucopia-concordance 267 comments
- Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (22 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently 232 comments
- Pluralistic: Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk (08 Apr 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/08/late-stage-sea-monkeys/#jeremys-razors 205 comments
- Pluralistic: Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR’s traffic (14 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/14/freedom-of-reach/ 194 comments
- Pluralistic: 21 Aug 2022 The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve Reaches Apogee – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust 184 comments
- Pluralistic: Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices (13 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/13/kitbashed/#app-store-tax 178 comments
- Pluralistic: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it (31 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/#the-internet-con 172 comments
- Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys 171 comments
- Pluralistic: 24 Sep 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/24/comcom-acm/ 160 comments
- Pluralistic: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble (09 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/#the-real-ai-was-the-corporations-that-we-fought-along-the-way 153 comments
- Pluralistic: Apple to EU: “Go fuck yourself” (06 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/06/spoil-the-bunch/#dma 141 comments
- Pluralistic: 04 Jun 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/04/aaronsw/#cfaa 131 comments
- Pluralistic: 12 Aug 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/12/regulatory-uncapture/#conscious-uncoupling 130 comments