Mastodawn

Welcome to the new gold rush — everybody’s chasing the Motherlode. ⛏️
I’ve seen this boom before. 💰
It’s an 1849 fever dream with better marketing. ✨
The gold’s gone and you’re still digging with a spoon. 🥄
It’s just a dry hole with better branding. 🕳️
https://talesofmanythings.com/blog/2026/01/24/ive-seen-this-boom-before-a-guide-to-corporate-gold-rushes/
#TalkLikeaGrizzledProspectorDay #GoldRush #CorporateLife #PicksAndShovels #WorkCulture

On My Walk Dec 30

Ripping a CD to flac on Ubuntu using abcde. The CD is spinning inside a cr@pple SuperDrive. Thank you internet for teaching me the "wake up" command to send to the SuperDrive in order for it to work outside of MacOS - #FidelityComputing vibes IRL. #PicksAndShovels

Alexander Shendi Dec 27

/cc @pluralistic
#PicksAndShovels #Doctorow #audiobook

Currently listening to:

Vickie Gray 🍁Dec 25

Finished @pluralistic Picks And Shovels.

Best book I’ve read all year. Thanks for writing it!

Great plot. Interesting, human characters. Lots of technical goodies. Believable emotional and ethical dilemmas treated with compassion and passion.

Felt very familiar, yet I didn’t see all the plot twists coming.

#CoryDoctorow
#PicksAndShovels
#fiction
#bookstodon

Gemischtwahnladen Dec 16

Nochmal im Ernst, ich brauch gern n Ticket für den #39c3... Würd mir schon gern meine Ausgabe von #picksandshovels entwerten lassen, wenn der Kollege schonmal im Lande ist ;)

Gemischtwahnladen Dec 11

Ich war gestern in meinem allerlieblings #Buchladen @cvobuchladen in #Flensburg und hab mir #picksandshovels von @pluralistic bestellt. Ist heute dann da - schneller gehts kaum und netter eh nicht und ich bin froh, dass es lokale Buchläden gibt! Also geht auch alle hin und kauft eure Bücher vor Ort! #fckamazon

Simon Zerafa Oct 26

An excellent episode from Steve from @gamersnexus on the AI Circle Jerk currently ongoing with AI investments 🙂

Assuming the money is in fact moving from company to company in exchange for something, rather than circular investmentbto manipulate stock prices

https://youtu.be/h3JfOxx6Hh4

#AI #TulipMania #PicksAndShovels #GoldRush

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justforfun Jul 4, 2025

There's a lot of shit news so here's something to smile about. Libro.fm's Summer Challenge has been announced. It's a fun activity bingo card that can be accessed from their blog, link below. One of the activities is to share a favorite from their offerings. For me, it was @pluralistic 's #picksandshovels so, go ahead, get your #MartyHenchIsMench on. This is, in my opinion, the best of Will Wheaton's narrations to date. https://blog.libro.fm/summer-reading-challenge-2025/

#bookstodon #audiobooks #reading

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Flipboard Apr 24, 2025

Not one to hold back, @pluralistic talks to @mike about “enshittification,” explaining why the internet feels broken and what we can do about it. This episode of @dot_social is sharp, funny and provocative. Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/cory-doctorow/

#CoryDoctorow #DotSocial #Podcast #Enshittification #Internet #Technology #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #PicksAndShovels #FediverseHouse #SXSW