Today's threads (a thread) Inside: AI solipsists and AI cynics; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s... #Pluralistic 1/
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Enshittification by Cory Doctorow | WaterstonesBuy Enshittification by Cory Doctorow from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.www.waterstones.comОтвет для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
AI solipsists and AI cynics: You don't have to believe that AI "works" to believe that it's a good investment. bsky.app/profile/did:... 3/
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/
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#10yrsago Our public health data is being ingested into Silicon Valley’s gaping, proprietary maw web.archive.org/web/20170917... #5yrsago Amusement parks, crowd control and load-balancing pluralistic.net/2021/07/25/n... 9/
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Yesterday's threads: California's privacy obstacle course; and more! bsky.app/profile/did:... 10/
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)Today's threads (a thread) Inside: California's privacy obstacle course; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/23/d... #Pluralistic 1/
Ответ для By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 11/
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AIAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even...us.macmillan.com
A longer look at our AI overlords. app.thestorygraph.com/books/d5039d...
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam BeckerHow Silicon Valley's heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions--with escaping death, emergent A...app.thestorygraph.com