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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:
Delta airlines has announced a new surveillance pricing plan: they're going to feed an AI the nonconsensually harvested personal data that data-brokers and credit bureaux hold on you to predict the maximum you're willing to pay, and then price their tickets accordingly:
If 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:
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.
Like the rest of the government under Trump, the Antitrust Division just got turned into a pay-to-play operation. Four Senators are trying to expose what's happening to antitrust, and our society.
On Saturday July 30, a small group of first amendment minded photographers flash mobbed One Bush Street, and set off on a constitutionally protected photo tour of public downtown San Francisco. 555 California St.
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:
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:
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."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
Co-op Congress brings together those working to build a fairer economy to share ideas, get inspiration and take action. See the full programme of Day One at ...
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Old story about a new employee at an optician. He asks the owner how much he should charge for glasses. The owner says, “Say $100, and see if the customer flinches. If he doesn’t then say that’s just for the frame, the lenses are another $100. And if the customer still doesn’t flinch, then say, each.”
The video discusses James Lindsay's intense reactions whenever Carl Schmitt is mentioned and his ongoing criticism of the so-called woke right. I explain Lin...
Is the Israeli military trying to get out of this genocidal war? Analyst Jon Elmer's says there are signs to support this assessment. This is a segment from ...
Good news Seattle folks and #SeattleWorldcon attendees! Writers with Drinks *did* sell out... so Town Hall moved the event into a bigger space! So there are tix again. August 14, Sliding scale, grab em here: townhallseattle.org/event/writ…
In celebration of the Independence month for multiple South Asian countries, this event honors a musical language cherished across the region—Coke Studio.
whats so weird about "15 minute cities" is that they already exist. Like the neighborhood i lived in in SF for nearly two decades. Everything was right there, within 15 minutes, if I desired, I never had to leave.
This started for me mid May when Kolektiva suspended me for a week for arguing with a Zionist.
All the followers remained but half of the follows disappeared, they were also mainly mutuals. Recently noticed from other people boosting stuff that some "followers" also have been removed.
It's more or less normal shady admin stuff that happens to me on all services.
that’s super weird and I’d want to know exactly what happened. They did take action against me earlier in the year so maybe I got cut off from Kolektiva folks altogether. They undid whatever action they took against me but some of those last…
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COSMIC’s Alpha 2 release builds upon the first alpha with functionality built for Files, additional Settings pages, considerable infrastructure work for screen reader support+, and some highly requested window management features.
Power & Battery: Here you can choose between an Extended battery life mode, High performance mode, and Balanced mode. You can also check the battery levels of your mouse, keyboard, headset, or other wireless devices.
Sound Settings: Select input and output devices, adjust volume for each on a slider, and choose between a variety of sound profiles. Additionally, Bluetooth (bluez5) devices are now supported.
Network & Wireless: Check Wired connections, choose from Wifi options in range, and manage your VPN connection from Network & Wireless Settings.
Displays: New X11 Window Application Scaling options in Displays Settings allows you to enable sharper X11 apps, as well as gaming at native display resolution.
New Window Management Features: Two highly requested features have been built into Window Management Settings: Focus follows cursor, and Cursor follows focus.
In Alpha 2, users can now disable the Super key from the dropdown in Window Management settings.
New Interface Density Settings: Comfortable, Compact, and Spacious Interface Density settings adjust the spacing between elements throughout the COSMIC desktop. The size of headers, space between lists such as file names or setting options, space between applets and inside applets adjust according to the setting preference.
This feature was merged early to identify widgets and spacing that require adjustment. You may encounter unexpected spacing using the Compact and Spacious options.
COSMIC Files: ● Search bar, New Folder, Grid/List view, and Sort by options added to header ● Sort by Name, Type, Last modified, Date created, and Size (Last modified selected by default) ● ”Recents” added to the sidebar for viewing recent files ● Preview files in a context menu before opening ● Gallery is a new feature accessible from the Preview. In gallery mode, users can cycle through images in a folder. ● Compress/Extract files from right-click menu, as well as Extract To a desired location. support for .tar, .tbz, .tgz, .txz, and .zip. Support for password encoded zip files will be next. ● Browse and connect to network drives ● Ctrl+D shortcut adds the selected item to the sidebar. ● ”File” menu is now complete. Includes options to open a new tab, window, or folder; open a file or open with preferred application; rename, show details, add to sidebar, move to trash, close tab, or quit. ● Ctrl+, shortcut opens Files app settings ● Defaults to floating when opened by xdg-portal (when uploading/downloading on another app) ● Separators in sidebar to divide Trash, Networks, and additional drives
Release & Schedule Changes: The second COSMIC alpha will be released on September 26th. Those participating in Alpha 1 on Pop!_OS can simply update through the COSMIC App Store to transition. This alpha will be followed by monthly alpha releases until all core features have been built out.
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#Trump’s White House Faith Office Head Paula White: The High Priestess Of False Prophets -- Donald Trump has created the first-ever White House Faith Office. To lead this new government bureaucracy, designed specifically to target religion in America, Trump appointed his spiritual advisor Paula White. Thousands of churches have reached out their unholy hands to receive these funds from the American taxpayers. I am reminded of a quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson on this subject: That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/…
Dr. Chuck Baldwin is a radio broadcaster, syndicated columnist, and pastor dedicated to preserving the historic principles upon which America was founded.
This is quintessential Prosperity Theology/Christian Zionist blasphemy touted by the likes of John Hagee that Jews have a special plan of salvation with God that does not include salvation through Christ. Hagee and White ignore what Jesus said in John 14:6: I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. News flash to Paula White: There is a God; and you are not Him. Paula White is the high priestess of false prophets. Listen to what White says about Donald Trump: To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God. News flash to Paula White: There is a God and Donald Trump is not Him. White on Trump again: Let every demonic network that has aligned itself against the calling of President Trump, let it be broken, let it be torn down in the name of Jesus. --Such blasphemy! So, anyone who opposes Donald Trump—no matter how unconstitutional or evil his actions and policies might be—must be demonic and broken and torn down—in the name of Jesus, of course. Trump has surrounded himself with Zionist cultists, including Paula White, who want to destroy the freedom of speech to criticize Zionism or Israel.
Bis Ende Juni 2025 hat #Milei 52.300 Mitarbeiter im #Staatsdienst oder #Staatsunternehmen abgebaut. Der monatliche Rückgang sieht ziemlich linear aus. Wenn das so weitergeht, dann macht er als letzter nach einer zweiten #Amtsperiode das Licht aus.😃 #Argentinien
Several days ago, I received spam in Chinese that (auto-translation tells me) advertises a class for business owners/executives to help them have more power over workers.
Like, for 680 yuan, I can go to a lecture to learn how to improve my employee contracts so I'll more often win labor dispute lawsuits, and otherwise reduce my labor risks. Plus I'll get Chinese food.
The spam came, not to my Changeset address, but to an email address associated with the newspaper column I wrote 20 years ago.
They try to get me onboard by asking: isn't it super unfair that unqualified workers, the cost of overtime and annual leave, disputes/arbitration over these things, etc. cost enterprises so much and even lead to biz failure? [Replica of the spam, I think: goodvin-blogger.blogspot.com/2… ]
I took particular note of one line: '为什么现在员工动不动就说:有本事你把我开除呀! ?' I'd love a translation from a human; auto-translation says it's along the lines of:
"Why do employees these days always say: 'Fire me if you can!'"
This is probably the last episode of "Reimagining the Internet", the podcast Mike Sugarman and I have produced for the last five years. Talk about going out on a high note: I interview Alondra Nelson on AI, universities and the Trump administration:
I'll have more to say about Reimagining, and what Mike and I hope to do next in podcasting. But this one is a must-hear - Alondra is one of the smartest, best informed and most hopeful people I know.
Alondra Nelson is arguably the most important sociologist of science in America. She isn't just a brilliant researcher of how race and racism has shaped public health in America, nor just a thoughtful, savvy tech policy maker.
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices.
SANAA, July 29 (YPA) -The Yemeni armed forces affiliated with the Sanaa government announced the implementation of a qualitative military operation targeting Lod Airport, known as Ben Gurion Airport, in the occupied Yaffa region, using a “Palestine 2
Donald Trump is not a Christian. This guest writer refuses to write that Trump Refuses to acknowledge his own sin yet pray about it.. calvinchimes.org/2024/11/18/do…
The Church should reevaluate its expectation that political leaders, particularly the President, share our faith. Such a reevaluation should also prompt us to rethink our politics.
#Milei has his own page! WEF Licentiate in Economics, Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina; two Master’s in Economics, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and CEDES/IDES. Formerly: Head Economist, Estudio Broda and Máxima AFJP; Senior Economist, HSBC, Argentina; Adviser of the Argentine Government, ICSID. Head Economist, Corporación América. B-20/G-20 Adviser and Member, Group of Economic Policy, ICC/G-20. Lead the division of Economic Studies, Fundación Acordar, a think tank of national scope. For more than 20 years, University Professor of Macroeconomics, Economics of Growth, Microeconomics and Mathematics for Economists. Has written over 50 academic papers. weforum.org/people/javier-gera…
I had a long rap sheet of FB Arrests until I got kicked out. I've told you guys before, but one time I had just gotten out of a 30 day ban...was out for maybe 20 minutes, maybe 10...and I was back in for another 30 days, back to back...
According to FB, for sure @RELENTLESS They hated me. I just wouldn't shut-up...but then again, you already know this from your experience here, with me. 😄
Radioactive wasp nest discovered at South Carolina nuclear site
— A wasp nest contaminated with radioactive material was found inside a restricted area at a former nuclear weapons site in South Carolina.
The U.S. Department of Energy says the nest was discovered on July 3 at the Savannah River Site in Aiken County, a massive facility built in the 1950s to help produce materials for Cold War nuclear weapons.
Nuclear killer wasps was not ony my bingo card! #nuclear #wasps
A wasp nest contaminated with radioactive material was found earlier this month inside a restricted area at a former nuclear weapons site in South Carolina.
Delta airlines has announced a new surveillance pricing plan: they're going to feed an AI the nonconsensually harvested personal data that data-brokers and credit bureaux hold on you to predict the maximum you're willing to pay, and then price their tickets accordingly:
If 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:
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.
Data-brokers hold all kinds of data on you, from the "legitimate" information about everywhere your car has driven, to everywhere point in space that the Bluetooth radios on your phone and headphones have passed, to everything you've bought, to every website you've visited and every search you've performed. They also buy data that has been straight up stolen from you by spyware implanted on your phone:
Infostealer data can include passwords, email and billing addresses, and the embarrassing websites you use. Farnsworth Intelligence is selling to divorce lawyers and other industries.
All of this can be merged into a single file that you have no right to scrutinize, let alone redact. Biden's Consumer Finance Protection Bureau passed a rule banning all this shit, but Trump illegally killed off that rule:
Capitalism's highest form of creativity is finding ways to rip you off, and the business world's most creative minds have found a million ways to exploit this data, including surveillance pricing.
For example, McDonald's has invested in a startup called Plexure that offers to help restaurants jack up prices on payday, when you can afford to pay more:
And then there's the Big Three "Uber for nurses" apps, who use surveillance data to calculate wages for nurses, offering lower hourly rates to nurses who are carrying a lot of credit-card debt, on the grounds that they are too desperate to turn down a lowball offer:
And just as these gigwork apps are deciding what your labor is worth, surveillance pricing systems decide what your *money* is worth, charging you more than another otherwise identical customer, for an identical product, meaning your dollar is worth less than that other customer's dollar:
Now we have Delta, which promises to do the same thing, but for plane tickets. Obviously, the aviation industry has long practiced a form of "price discrimination," charging radically different sums for the same seat, based on when you buy the ticket, or when you plan to return.
But this is different, and to explain why, here's a link to an article by the great Hubert Horan, who may be best known to my readers for his incredible breakdowns of Uber's finances, but whose life's work is as an aviation analyst:
Horan draws a distinction between surveillance pricing and "second degree price discrimination." Surveillance pricing targets you, personally, based on your personal information.
"Second degree price discrimination" charges everyone *like* you the same price: like, everyone who buys a roundtrip ticket without a Saturday night stay is charged extra on the grounds that they are probably a price-insensitive business traveler whose fare is being paid by a corporation.
Surveillance pricing is *first*-degree price discrimination, with every customer seeing a different price.
Horan argues that second-degree discrimination created efficiencies, for example, by offering cheap last-minute seats to people thinking about going away for the weekend, who fill seats that would otherwise go empty. Horan says these efficiencies have tapped out, thanks to the application of straightforward pricing algorithms to tickets.
Now, Delta wants to squeeze more profits out of price discrimination, but by employing first-degree discrimination, they're doing so without any benefit to fliers (unlike second-degree discrimination, which made many fliers better off because they were able to score cheaper tickets). This makes Delta's surveillance pricing a "pure transfer" - shifting wealth from fliers to shareholders with no benefit to those fliers.
Delta is doing this in partnership with an Israeli firm called Fetcherr, whose sales pitch denies that they are using surveillance data to price tickets, despite what Delta has claimed.
Horan doesn't know what to make of this, but he speculates that because Fetcherr bills itself as an AI company, Delta thinks it can impress investors by claiming that it will goose prices by combining surveillance (well understood to be a way to benefit corporations at the expense of their customers) and AI, a hype-filled technology that is endlessly impressive to credulous investors.
A bigger mystery is how Fetcherr plans to do surveillance pricing without surveillance.
Horan points out that the company's founders come from hedge funds, where automated high-speed AI trader-bots fed on tons of public market data are routinely used. He thinks it's possible that "Fletchrr doesn’t understand airline pricing very well." Also, being finance bros, they thought "airlines were 'outdated' 'undisrupted' and had seen few recent technological advances."
Horan continues, the reason airlines aren't updating their algorithmic pricing is they've already done it all, having pioneered the field.
Horan's favored explanation for the disconnect between what Fetcherr and Delta claim they're doing is, on the one hand, they're obscuring the fact that they're doing surveillance pricing (to avoid regulators and consumer backlash), but on the other hand, they want to telegraph (to investors) that this is *exactly* what they're doing.
It's what Uber already does, repricing both the labor of its drivers based on their economic desperation, and the cost of your fare based on what its surveillance dossier suggests you're willing to pay. It's certainly increased Uber's margins - by effecting a pure transfer from riders and drivers to shareholders.
But Uber rides are last-minute, small dollar purchases, which decreases the likelihood that a rider will shop around before booking. By contrast, Horan says, most fliers buy well in advance, from online travel sites that show them *lots* of competing prices.
One thing Horan doesn't mention here is that British Airways has just done a top-to-bottom rejig of its frequent flier program to severely penalize anyone who buys tickets from one of these sites, effectively requiring its fliers to buy from BA.com. For example, I booked a $300 Alaska Airlines ticket on Alaska's website, using my BA frequent flier ID.
Under the old system, this would have been worth 10 tier points out of the 1500 needed to get Gold status (0.66%). Under the new system, I got *12* points out of the *20,000* needed to get Gold (0.05%) - a 93% reduction in the reward value of this flight.
Which is to say that if you don't book on BA's site, you effectively *cannot* make status. BA has *also* announced a surveillance pricing deal with an AI company .
This gambit will block its best fliers from getting a better price from an online travel agency.
One other key difference between Uber and Delta: Uber has gone to great lengths to hide the fact that it's doing surveillance pricing from both drivers and riders. Delta issued a press-release!
There's a certain kind of neoclassical economist who *loves* surveillance pricing and praises its "efficiencies."
These apologists claim that by increasing the amount of "information" in the system, we encourage sellers to discount to customers who can't afford as much, making everyone better off:
This is nonsense. Sellers don't want to "increase the amount of information in the system." They want to *spy on you*. If you doubt it for an instant, just ask the firms that scrape airline websites for up-to-date pricing information:
Not only will airlines sue you for trying to find out what their fares are, they'll *also* sue you for figuring out how to get a better deal on their fares:
When they spy on you, that's progress. When you monitor their behavior, that's piracy.
As an aside, this reminds me of one of the AI industry's most egregious hoaxes-du-jour: the pretense that "agentic AI" is just around the corner, and soon we will be able to ask a chatbot to (e.g.) comparison shop across multiple website for the best airfare and book us a ticket:
While other tech companies rush to dominate artificial intelligence with bold promises and uneven results, Apple is building something slower, quieter, and more durable.
This absolutely totally *does not work*. You should *not* give your credit-card number to a chatbot and ask it to go out an buy you *anything*, lest you end up paying $30 for a dozen eggs and buying tickets to a baseball stadium in the middle of the ocean:
Rather, they're claiming that every website will eventually re-tool so that it can be reliably and predictably addressed by an AI agent, with all of its user interface elements well-labeled and/or addressable programatically, via an API.
This is a remarkable sleight of hand! First of all, re-engineering every website to embrace a common set of labels and API fields is a gigantic engineering feat - formally called "the semantic web" - that has been attempted since *1999* without *any* meaningful progress:
In that essay, I suggest that there are multiple reasons that companies will not voluntarily retool their sites to make it easier to comparison shop. One important reason is that companies don't believe their products are comparable with competing products (or they don't want *you* to think so). Coach wants you to think that its $40,000 handbags can't be replaced with a well-made $100 bag or even a $0.10 plastic bag.
They are not going to voluntarily categorize their handbag in a way that facilitates these comparisons.
Then there are companies that *do* want to be compared to rivals, for disingenuous reasons. That's why we saw such a proliferation of junk fees (stupid surcharges tacked on at checkout time): hotels, airlines and car rental agencies knew that the majority of their customers shopped for their offerings on comparison sites.
By offering a low sticker price, a company could win on price comparison, even though it was substantially *more* expensive after its junk fees were factored in.
Finally, there's the fact that companies want to lie to you, and adding "semantics" to the web does nothing to prevent such lies, and indeed, makes them easier to tell.
Think of all the Amazon sellers who use deceptive product photos to make you think you're getting (e.g.) a useful kitchen spatula, when they're selling a spatula so small that it appears to be engineered for a dollhouse; or companies that sell powerbanks that look like a useful portable battery but can't even recharge an LED flashlight, etc, etc. AI agents can't tell if metadata is correct or not!
Every complex ecosystem has parasites; that goes triple for the web. We won't fix agentic AI by asking people to accurately label their offerings, not when they stand to benefit by lying:
Fetching airfares for several routes and comparing them isn't something you need an AI-style inference engine for - it's a straightforward algorithmic problem that can be easily solved. The part that agentic AI purports to solve isn't figuring out which airfare out of a list is cheapest - it's *compiling the list itself*, from unstructured data retrieved from heterogeneous websites that are doing everything they can to prevent the compilation of such a list.
This is a well-known AI gambit. First, announce that agentic AI will be able to automate tasks that only humans can manage today; then insist that everything has to be changed to be amenable to the new technology. This is exactly what the self-driving car grifters (who were on the leading edge of the AI grift) did. First, they announced that AIs would be able to pilot cars in spaces filled with human drivers, walkers and cyclists.
Then, when it became clear that this would result in slaughtersome robot-on-human violence, they demanded that humans curtail their behavior to avoid upsetting the robot.
They call this "the pogo-stick problem":
> “I think many AV teams could handle a pogo stick user in pedestrian crosswalk,” Ng told me. “Having said that, bouncing on a pogo stick in the middle of a highway would be really dangerous.”
> “Rather than building AI to solve the pogo stick problem, we should partner with the government to ask people to be lawful and considerate,” he said. “Safety isn’t just about the quality of the AI technology.”
Automation is real and can deliver real benefits to people. Sometimes, automation requires that other systems be adjusted to facilitate its functioning. But this is a gambit. It's a scam.
New limitations in deep learning — called “AI Winter” by skeptics — could pose a serious problem for autonomous car projects by Tesla, Waymo, and Uber.
AI agents aren't going to replace human labor. The only way we'll replace human labor with software agents is by redesigning all these heterogeneous, competing systems owned by people who benefit from the status quo and have every motivation to obstruct this project.
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:
Those daily profits are buying corrupt Supreme Court justices and venal Republican Members of Congress by the boatload. nature.com/articles/d41586-024…
@violetmadder interesting to learn last Friday evening that Adam Smith was NOT in favour of what is now termed Capitalism. If you get a chance, go to see “Make it Happen”. Play starring Brian Cox as Adam Smith and Sandy Grierson as Fred Goodwin, aka Fred the Shred. The story of the rise and downfall of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Rent seeking that aims for the impossible dream of business: how can we charge for services they won't receive and keep the money, but not call that fraud?
Huh, who would have thought that the company that lobbied to reduce covid mitigations prematurely even if it killed people would do such a thing to its customers? Great piece, as usual.
Their AI is hallucinating. I sm not spending any money with them, or any other airline, because I am not flying on a plane that of which you do not know if it has been properly maintained. Last time I flew was last century.
It seems to me like this only makes them money if either (a) they have a monopoly on routes, (b) they can hide ticket prices until after sale, or (c) all the airlines conspire to use similar pricing. Otherwise comparison shopping means they just lose, no?
Posting online so that the data brokers will see this and pass it along to Delta:
Because of this, the maximum I'm willing to pay to fly on Delta is now -500. Yes, Delta would have to pay me $500 for me to fly on any flight with them now.
QuickBooks did that with their online-only softare system. They realized with control of your data and usage, they can dictate the highest price you are capable of paying.
You forgot the cherry on top: when a rich person and a poor person want to buy the same item but only one or a few of them are left, the poor person is going to get told "We're so sorry but all items are sold out".
— Hé tu sais pourquoi on dit que c'est l'humain qui vit chez le chat et pas l'inverse? — ... —Parce que c'est moi le bâilleur mdr! Tu l'as? Allez file-moi des croquettes, huit heures de sieste ça creuse.
I love the screen and the sound you get when you turn on the Famicom Disk System. There's just something really cool about an 8-bit boot screen/bios! 🤩
Yeah, that's one of the good ones. I'd also say that even though it's 16-bit, the SEGA/MEGA CD BIOS is kind of pleasing.
Most boot BIOSes are kind of loud and annoying. Honestly, as neat as the Playstation seemed in so many ways in its time, it is a good example of this IMO. (I was glad the PS2 was so much more subtle and quiet in comparison.)
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
What the government has achieved above all is to bring people onto the streets in disgust at its disgraceful facilitation of genocide in Gaza. Its authoritarian policy has backfired spectacularly. Try as it might, it cannot stop people caring. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx…
Je recherche un pantalon de pluie pour le #velo taff vraiment respirant. J'ai actuellement le modèle de base de chez D4. Autant il bloque bien la pluie, autant je suis trempé par la condensation de la sueur...
Qu'est que vous recommendez ? Pour le budget, je suis prêt à monter jusqu'à 150€.
"Some of the younger children... were not as afraid. But the tearful, frightened eyes of a ten-year-old girl clinging to her father’s chest told a different story.
The terrifying chants of young men echoing through the hotel – “Send them out!” – filled the air like an ominous drumbeat."
There's an excess of negative political commentary about Democrats on top of all the right wing propaganda. Even media companies that often appear to explicitly support Democrats (Crooked Media, MSNBC) take time out to slap Dems around.
You won’t see any of them talking about how the Democratic Pittsburgh City Council just finished 2 years of work to eliminate middle and low income people’s medical debt. But if they can find a way to be divisive about some other local issue, they’ll jump on it.
#OpenPrinting is a fantastic project that has genuinely made the experience of printing on Linux easier; we published a blog post last month about how now it "just works": securedrop.org/news/implementi…
Unfortunately, its leader @till was recently laid off and is now looking for other funding.
Please support him and the OpenPrinting project if you're able:
As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.
Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.
If the 'fight for the soul of America' is over advertisements for consumer products, my heart, truly, is not in it this time. RT: poa.st/objects/7dc5efb6-7618-4…
AlphaWarrior (former USMC & LEO) & RedPill Project, Josh Reid (Navy vet) - Rumble, Badlands - this was an informative podcast that you will find interesting.
DEFCON ZERQ Ep. 003 - Streamed on July 29 & on Rumble every Tuesday night. If you enjoy it, FOLLOW the show.
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In Episode 3 of DEFCON ZERQ, Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid take listeners on a rapid-fire ride through a series of headlines and intel drops, highlighting the shifting global narrative and signs of elit
Die Strategien derer, die das Grauen in Gaza leugnen, wegdiskutieren, rechtfertigen sind nicht die ersten die das tun. Wir kennen es aus der Geschichte
»Wie kann man Bilder des Schreckens wegerklären? Mit welchen rhetorischen Mitteln wird gegen die Anständigkeit in der Bevölkerung vorgegangen? Das waren Fragen auch im Zweiten Weltkriegs - und die Antworten der damaligen Machthaber erinnern unheimlich an das, was heute von einigen gesagt wird.« bsky.app/profile/yossibartal.b…
30.07.2025 : Une courte journée de 15km qui régale pourtant bien plus les yeux que la veille. Les gorges à travers lesquelles la route évolue sont superbes, avec de nombreuses cascades sur le chemin, et les lueurs du matin viennent mettre en valeur les paysages.
Labour could ban the use of Virtual Private Networks after their use has skyrocketed to avoid the restrictions imposed by the Online Safety Act. Logical
@jschwa1 I took a more radical and, in my view, more effective step of abandoning all BBC News over ten years ago. The relief and benefits are immeasurable
I knew it would come to this
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Delta's AI-based price-gouging: Running an airline like a hedge-fund.
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2025-07-30 18:12:45
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Hey look at this
* Lina Khan: Democrats Can Learn from Zohran Mamdani nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion…
* 8647 jwz.org/blog/2025/07/8647/
* Into the Abyss: Trump's Bizarro New Deal thebignewsletter.com/p/into-th…
* Block Google login popups mas.to/@markwyner/114941092519…
* Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death energyvanguard.com/blog/try-th… (h/t Hacker News)
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Into the Abyss: Trump's Bizarro New Deal
Matt Stoller (BIG by Matt Stoller)Mark Wyner Won’t Comply
2025-07-30 07:51:25
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#20yrsago Homeland Security radio-tags foreign visitors schneier.com/blog/archives/200…
#20yrsago Pix from today’s photog-mob at the unphotographable 1 Bush St building flickr.com/photos/avantgame/se…
#20yrsago The copyfight and international development web.archive.org/web/2005080200…
#5yrsago Interop to the rescue pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/rot…
#5yrsago Why sweat smells pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/rot…
#5yrsago Solar heroin pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/rot…
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One Bush Street Photo Flash Mob
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#5yrsago Google destroys yet more smart-glasses pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/rot… Mexico's new copyright vs cybersecurity pluralistic.net/2020/07/30/rot…
#1yrago An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more pluralistic.net/2024/07/30/ope…
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Pluralistic: 30 Jul 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup; and more!
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2025-07-29 17:55:36
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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:
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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:
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
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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."
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
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Upcoming appearances:
* #SanDiego: ACM Collective Intelligence keynote, Aug 5
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* #Ithaca: AD White keynote (Cornell), Sep 12
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* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* ORG at 20: In conversation with Maria Farrell
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* Why aren't we controlling our own tech? (Co-Op Congress)
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* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again?
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Co-op Congress 2025 – Friday 4 July
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Pluralistic: Delta’s AI-based price-gouging (30 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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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:
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