Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.2d agoPluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/technopolitics/
and some more variations done; revolutionary edition.
after having a marxist variant now i definitely need to make an explicitly anarchist one too!
#furry #furryart #protogen #protogenart #seizethemeansofcomputation
A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jsstmmUUs
Anil Dash @anildash: “It's telling that the creators of so many of the AI tools don't even have enough confidence in their offerings to simply let users choose to adopt them, and are instead forcing them into users' faces in every possible corner of their apps and websites.
“If, as they say, AI tools are going to get better quickly, then let them do so and trust that smart people will pick them up and use them. If you think your workers and colleagues are too stupid to recognize good tools that will help them do their jobs better, then... you are a bad leader and should step down. Because you've created a broken culture.”
https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/
#ArtificialStupidity #DigitalSerfdom #BossesHateWorkers #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation
Another gem of a talk by Cory Doctorow on enshittification! Highly recommended!
DEFCON 32 - Disenshittify or Die!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
(Also read his book 'How to seize the means of computation'!)
The enshittification of the internet wasn't inevitable. The old, good internet gave way to the enshitternet because we let our bosses enshittify it. We took ...
@pluralistic should I rejoyce or be worried about your #radicalization?
Disenshittify or die!
How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet, hardened against our bosses' horniness for enshittification.
#DisenshittifyOrDie #SeizeTheMeansOfComputation #Enshittification #Disenshittification
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