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Inside: The AI that we'll have after AI; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The AI that we'll have after AI; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/pos…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #LosAngeles, #Calgary and #SanFrancisco!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
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The AI that we'll have after AI: Cheap GPUs, unemployed engineers, and open source models.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11538496…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-16 17:14:04
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* How I Became a Populist newrepublic.com/article/201171…
* Introducing the Bantam Tools EggBot evilmadscientist.com/2025/bant…
* Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects theregister.com/2025/10/14/fra…
* AI Won’t Replace Jobs, but Tech Bros Want You to Be Afraid It Will gizmodo.com/ai-wont-replace-jo…
* US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low henleyglobal.com/newsroom/pres…
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US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low
Henley & PartnersCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Logic and math riddles from Slashdot slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1…
#20yrsago Yiddish postcard gallery web.archive.org/web/2005101803…
#20yrsago JibJab’s legal threats over the use of 9 seconds of their video blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10…
#20yrsago Wal-Mart photofinishing narcs out student who made anti-Bush poster web.archive.org/web/2005101123…
#20yrsago Buddhist monks deploy saffron flak vests and armored monkmobiles eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2005/10/…
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Monkmobiles and bulletproof robes
eyeteeth.blogspot.comCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Mitt Romney got a bestseller by demanding bulk-purchases of his books in exchange for lectures politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2…
#15yrsago Every terrible thing Canada’s Stephen Harper government has done in the past four years 24percentmajority.blogspot.com…
#10yrsago 1980: the Director of the FBI mixes up KISS & The Who, confusing the hell out of FBI agents muckrock.com/news/archives/201…
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Partners in Crime: FBI files on KISS
MuckRock FoundationCory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Sit down already: standing desks aren’t healthier than seated ones washingtonpost.com/news/to-you…
#10yrsago It’s not enough that Apple and Google are bringing usable crypto to the world csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/P…
#10yrsago The NSA sure breaks a lot of “unbreakable” crypto. This is probably how they do it. blog.citp.princeton.edu/2015/1…
#5yrsago Bricked Ferrari pluralistic.net/2020/10/15/exp…
#5yrsago The Passenger Pigeon Manifesto pluralistic.net/2020/10/15/exp…
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How is NSA breaking so much crypto? - CITP Blog
Nadia Heninger (CITP Blog)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Dystopia as clickbait pluralistic.net/2020/10/15/exp…
#1yrago Of course we can tax billionaires pluralistic.net/2024/10/15/pik…
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Pluralistic: 15 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11537847…
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Cory Doctorow
2025-10-15 13:43:42
Cory Doctorow
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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:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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My latest nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, 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."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #LosAngeles: Enshittification with David Dayen (Diesel), Oct 16
dieselbookstore.com/event/2025…
* #Calgary: Literary Death Match (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 17
wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/…
* #Calgary: Big Tech’s Betrayal—and How to Break Free! (Calgary Wordfest), Oct 18
wordfest.com/2025/imaginarium/…
* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works with Jenny Odell (The Booksmith), Oct 20
app.gopassage.com/events/docto…
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Booksmith presents: Cory Doctorow with Jenny Odell Enshittification
Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #PDX: Enshittification at Powell's, Oct 21
powells.com/events/cory-doctor…
* #Seattle: Enshittification and the Rot Economy, with Ed Zitron (Clarion West), Oct 22
clarionwest.org/event/2025-dee…
* #Vancouver: Enshittification with David Moscrop (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 23
showpass.com/2025-festival-39/
* #Montreal: Montreal Attention Forum keynote, Oct 24
attentionconferences.com/confe…
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Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron
Marnee Chua (Clarion West)Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Montreal: Enshittification at Librarie Drawn and Quarterly, Oct 24
mtl.drawnandquarterly.com/even…
* #Ottawa: Enshittification (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 25
writersfestival.org/events/fal…
* #Toronto: Enshittification with Dan Werb (Type Books), Oct 27
instagram.com/p/DO81_1VDngu/?i…
* #Barcelona: Conferencia EUROPEA 4D (Virtual), Oct 28
4d.cat/es/conferencia/
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Cory Doctorow launches Enshittification | Librairie Drawn & Quarterly
mtl.drawnandquarterly.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Miami: Enshittification at Books & Books, Nov 5
eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-wi…
* #Miami: Cloudfest, Nov 6
cloudfest.com/usa/
* #Burbank: Burbank Book Festival, Nov 8
burbankbookfestival.com/
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
websummit.com/sessions/lis25/9…
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An Evening with Cory Doctorow
EventbriteCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event…
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…
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Hay Festival After Hours
Hay FestivalCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification (The Gist)
youtube.com/watch?v=EgBiv_KchI…
* Canadian tariffs with Avi Lewis
plagal.wordpress.com/2025/10/1…
* Enshittification (This Is Hell)
thisishell.com/interviews/1864…
* Enshittification (Computer Says Maybe)
csm.transistor.fm/episodes/got…
* Enshittification with Lina Khan (Brooklyn Public Library)
youtube.com/watch?v=NCX5Yst64H…
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A Rundown of Big Tech's Shady Tactics and How to Stop It | Cory Doctorow, Ensh*ttification
YouTubeCory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: The AI that we’ll have after AI (16 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #LosAngeles, #Calgary and #SanFrancisco!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
pluralistic.net/tour
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Dinand Mentink
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Just makes me wonder. After the tulip mania of 1637.
What happened to the tulips?
SHODAN
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Bubbles are bad but it really is astounding how little will be left after the bubble bursts and how much resources are essentially being put into something that cannot be salvaged for anything else.
I still ride on the tracks built during the British railway mania of the 19th century over here and the initial investment of people installing fibre clearly were proven correct given how much fibre there is installed now. Such a colossal waste of silicon happening now.
Ygor
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •This reminds me of the song from Portal.
"So I'm glad I got burned, think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive"
#portal
Vijay Prema
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •There is now a whole ecosystem of AI apps and also many long-standing apps with added AI features, most relying on a single closed model provider hidden in the backend. Sure many are just silly marginal AI features but a few do useful things.
I wonder if those apps devs are even aware of the risk of wild API price hikes, or full loss of the provider or model.
Now Windows OS itself is becoming tied with AI too.
Taking that all into account, its pretty dire if they do collapse.
ploum
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •: my take on this is that those datacenters consume lot of electricity. Most of it renewable. Which means that, after the bubble, we will drown in too-cheap-to-meter electricity.
In fact, electricity will often have a negative price. Which will put bitcoin mining into a new light.
(while the crypto market is a scam and current prices are scam, the bitcoin project, at its core, is not a scam at all and is truly important. But I agree that the core is well hidden those days)
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Well I sure hope Cory is right about this. The argument makes sense and I also feel there is a big market correction coming. I still feel the pain the late 90s tech bubble bursting.😱
So this then begs the question: My 19 YO kid is about to set up his first investment savings account. Would it be wise at this time to stay away from market based funds or given his age throw caution to the wind?