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(DIR) Post #AwshhITOsA514GFygS by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:10:50Z
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Today's threads (a thread)Inside: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/05/ex-princes-of-labor/#Pluralistic1/
(DIR) Post #AwshhJWywKXULewLuC by Greengordon@spore.social
2025-08-05T18:46:35Z
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@pluralistic Much more honest way to frame #AI "AI is only secondarily a technological phenomenon; it is primarily a financial phenomenon, hundreds of billions of dollars in investment capital in search of a return."The return on that capital only comes from one place: workers' wages."
(DIR) Post #AwshhKOrhzdn2m9NtQ by feld@friedcheese.us
2025-08-06T03:53:13.942302Z
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@Greengordon @pluralistic but you're just describing any new invention that can replace workers ...factory automation: the return on that capital only comes from one place: factory workers' wagesOCR technology: the return on that capital only comes from one place: data entry workers' wages.Mass installation of Electronic gas/electricity meters: he return on that capital only comes from one place: meter readers' wages.
(DIR) Post #AwshhQILn7zjKJ9GZU by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:11:12Z
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Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie2/
(DIR) Post #AwshhYdCnTQjBIy2Bk by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:11:30Z
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Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex.https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1149762892684752213/
(DIR) Post #AwshhgWPSckPeXqihs by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:11:37Z
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Hey look at this* Xiaomi users stole their phones from the service center to unlock the bootloader https://xiaomitime.com/xiaomi-users-stole-their-phones-from-the-service-center-to-unlock-the-bootloader-58781/ (h/t Ishan)* AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-agents-have-so-far-mostly-been (h/t Naked Capitalism)* USAID Shield Shirts https://usaid-shirts.netlify.app/* The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation* FULL HOPE SCHEDULE IS LIVE https://www.2600.com/content/full-hope-schedule-live4/
(DIR) Post #AwshhoXPemIsVyNdNg by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:12:06Z
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#15yrsago Stuff: Oliver-Sacks-like account of pathological hoarders https://memex.craphound.com/2010/08/05/stuff-oliver-sacks-like-account-of-pathological-hoarders/#10yrsago David Byrne explains the streaming music ripoff https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/open-the-music-industrys-black-box.html#10yrsago The only furniture you need is a single smooth stone that reminds you of your mother https://web.archive.org/web/20150809132854/http://the-toast.net/2015/02/24/get-rid-clutter-live-abundantly/#10yrsago WATCH: Elizabeth Warren rescues Planned Parenthood, excoriates misogynist GOP creeps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeilHs9kZ2g5/
(DIR) Post #AwshhwUs471XCPFiWu by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:12:26Z
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#10yrsago India’s porn ban collapses in less than 48 hours https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-33783539#10yrsago Parenting and the Internet: the smarter, missing third way https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/05/what-is-missing-from-the-kids-internet#10yrsago Idaho court strikes down anti-whistleblower “ag-gag” law https://www.acluidaho.org/en/news/idaho-ag-gag-law-ruled-unconstitutional-federal-court#10yrsago Actual questions from my Green Card questionnaire https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/05/actual-questions-from-my-green-card-questionnaire/#10yrsago Germany’s top prosecutor fired for bringing “treason” charge against Netzpolitik https://web.archive.org/web/20150807201032/https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/world/article/German-prosecutor-accuses-gov-t-of-meddling-in-6423563.php6/
(DIR) Post #Awshi4pN5mAx2IuCau by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:12:41Z
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#5yrsago Qanon is magical thinking https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#magical-thinking#5yrsago Trump wants to force you to invest in failing fossil fuel companies https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#crybabies#5yrsago Cori Bush triumphs in Missouri https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#cori-bush#5yrsago Qanon is an ARG https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#adrian-hon#5yrsago GE's billion dollar tax-fraud https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#ge-fraud#5yrsago Contextual ads can save media https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/05/behavioral-v-contextual/#contextual-ads#1yrago Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/05/rugged-individuals/#misleading-by-analogy7/
(DIR) Post #AwshiCRCnVbAdff12O by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:13:10Z
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Yesterday's threads: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot; and more!https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1149709546305640378/
(DIR) Post #AwshiJIbHtsHv0gk64 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:13:19Z
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels--My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/9/
(DIR) Post #AwshiQRiiOKS5K0cme by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:13:34Z
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."https://craphound.com/shop/10/
(DIR) Post #AwshiXhZjqAeaWTsy8 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:13:53Z
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Upcoming appearances:* #SanDiego: ACM Collective Intelligence keynote, Aug 5https://ci.acm.org/2025/speakers/cory-doctorow/* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12https://deanoffaculty.cornell.edu/events/keynote-cory-doctorow-professor-at-large/* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8https://politics-prose.com/cory-doctorow-10825* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow25* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025http://www.contraflowscifi.org/11/
(DIR) Post #AwshifPR5APkUa3Vo0 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:14:01Z
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-1504647263469* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow2512/
(DIR) Post #AwshinK3f2rl2DbKXA by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:14:11Z
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Recent appearances:* Tariffs vs IP Law (Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFABFe-5-uQ* ORG at 20: In conversation with Maria Farrellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9H2An_D6io* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)https://www.youtube.com/live/GLrDwHgeCy4?si=NUWxPphk0FS_3g9J&t=440913/
(DIR) Post #Awshiv4Or95v3yKwEq by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:14:22Z
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You can follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection! Here's today's edition: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/05/ex-princes-of-labor/--If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is ad-/tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🥡". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!--You can also get a fulltext RSS feed, licensed CC BY 4.0:https://pluralistic.net/feed/14/
(DIR) Post #Awshj3AMkqcWAnBoeG by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:14:45Z
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Today's top sources: Slashdot (https://slashdot.org).15/
(DIR) Post #AwshjBBMx0Az2DijK4 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-05T13:14:58Z
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Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:https://clarionwriteathon.com/members/profile.php?writerid=293388eof/