Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK
Author/activist/journalist. New novel: THE BEZZLE, a thriller Shitty Tech Adoption Curve https://t.co/4ZExCQGXgS @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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No one writes about Disney theme parks like @Passport2Dreams; no one rises above the trivia and goes beyond the mere sleuthing of historical facts, no one *nails* the essence of wh...
We're living through one of those moments when millions of people become suddenly and overwhelmingly interested in fair use, one of the subtlest and worst-understood aspects of cop...
EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more roads-greater distances-mor...
There's a truly comforting sociopathy snuggled inside capitalism ideology: if markets are systems for identifying and rewarding virtue, ability and value, then anyone who's failing...
Corruption is a system of concentrated gains and diffused costs: cheaters make a lot of money, and their victims each lose a little. The cheater has a much larger pool of money to...
A decade ago, a hedge fund had an improbable viral comedy hit: a 294-page slide deck explaining why Olive Garden was going out of business, blaming the failure on too many breadsti...
There's one overwhelmingly common mistake that people make about enshittification: assuming that the contagion is the result of the Great Forces of History, or that it is the inevi...
If AI has a future (a big if), it will have to be economically viable. An industry can't spend 1,700% more on Nvidia chips than it earns indefinitely - not even with Nvidia being a...
Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a "utopian socialist." He lies about being a "free speech absolutist." He lies about which companies he founded: https://t.co/2n1OvrKQNJ...
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as i...
They say "the Golden Age of #ScienceFiction is 12" - that is, the thing that makes "the good old stuff" so good is its suitability for preteens, and rereading that stuff as an adul...
No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, it's still a dictatorship, and subject to the dictator's whims. We must demand that the owners and leaders of tech platforms be fair and...