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(DIR) Post #Awtp6A2yERl30jepYe by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:34:59Z
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Today's threads (a thread)Inside: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/06/unmerchantable-substitute-goods/#Pluralistic1/
(DIR) Post #Awtp6C4ogYQHJ2XKiG by rrb@infosec.exchange
2025-08-06T16:54:56Z
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@pluralistic I think AI can replace C-suite workers and university administrators. There would be real cost savings. And it would let people do useful labor.
(DIR) Post #Awtp6IN7HQcspX924O by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:35:51Z
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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 #Awtp6Q7STWr2rHsdm4 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:36:13Z
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Which jobs can be replaced with AI? Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness.https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1149822690806232373/
(DIR) Post #Awtp6YVVI0qGsBBxMe by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:36:26Z
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Hey look at this* If you oppose the State of Israel, this post is not for you https://coreyrobin.com/2025/08/04/if-you-oppose-the-state-of-israel-this-post-is-not-for-you/* Vote for the 2025 Tiny Awards Winner https://tinyawards.net/vote/* In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/ (h/t Naked Capitalism)* Debt's Grip Now Available! https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2025/08/debts-grip-now-available.html* No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/4/
(DIR) Post #Awtp6giCmfkuJtCDGy by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:36:47Z
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#10yrsago Why privacy activists and economists should be on the same side https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2640607#10yrsago Universal Music’s anti-piracy ads reached new heights of crazypants gore https://www.techdirt.com/2015/08/06/universal-musics-anti-piracy-ads-even-crazier-than-you-can-imagine/#10yrsago UK govt wants your opinion on sending file-sharers to jail for 10 years https://web.archive.org/web/20150905144030/https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/copyright-enforcement-consultation#10yrsago Robert Charles Wilson’s The Affinities: when science changes everything https://memex.craphound.com/2015/08/06/robert-charles-wilsons-the-affinities-when-science-changes-everything/5/
(DIR) Post #Awtp6o2JYJ052Hes5Y by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:36:58Z
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#5yrsago California DMV's $50m/year data selloff https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#you-are-the-product#5yrsago Novartis's $678m bribery scandal https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#novartis#5yrsago US plummets below Russia and Mexico in global misery index https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#usa-usa-usa#5yrsago Satanic Abortions cut through unconstitutional abortion laws https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#thyself-is-thy-master#5yrsago Restore the Office of Technology Assessment https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#ota#1yrago Circular battery self-sufficiency https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/06/with-great-power/#comes-great-responsibility6/
(DIR) Post #Awtp6wadkZD9Z3mOhc by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:37:16Z
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Yesterday's threads: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch; and more!https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1149763223607826377/
(DIR) Post #Awtp74188TYmbFE9Sq by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:37:21Z
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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/8/
(DIR) Post #Awtp7C14OaGVPNGDTs by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:37:36Z
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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/9/
(DIR) Post #Awtp7KP7D4FjQGZX4S by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:37:43Z
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Upcoming appearances:* #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/* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-150464726346910/
(DIR) Post #Awtp7SZKqxBIkHPo6y by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:37:54Z
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20https://app.gopassage.com/events/doctorow2511/
(DIR) Post #Awtp7aW5IvKnOVxK9g by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:38:07Z
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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=440912/
(DIR) Post #Awtp7iLkBFofglBB9E by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:38:12Z
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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/2025/08/06/unmerchantable-substitute-goods/--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/13/
(DIR) Post #Awtp7q0lh7n7S1QXZ2 by pluralistic@mamot.fr
2025-08-06T14:38:20Z
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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/