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Pluralistic: Sympathy for the spammer (15 Jan 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jan 15, 2024

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Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Apr 12, 2023

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Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Oct 9, 2022

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Pluralistic: How the world's leading breach expert got phished (05 Apr 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Apr 5, 2025

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Pluralistic: Surveillance is inequality's stabilizer (26 Jun 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jun 26, 2025

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Pluralistic: The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it (07 Aug 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Aug 7, 2024

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Pluralistic: AI psychosis and the warped mirror (18 Sep 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Sep 17, 2025

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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Sep 27, 2025

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Pluralistic: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 Dec 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Dec 11, 2025

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Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Aug 6, 2025

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Pluralistic: 06 May 2021

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow May 6, 2021

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Pluralistic: The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships (26 July 2023)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jul 26, 2023

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Pluralistic: The AI that we'll have after AI (16 Oct 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Oct 16, 2025

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Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jan 21, 2026

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Pluralistic: A world without people (05 Jan 2026)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jan 5, 2026

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Pluralistic: Two weak spots in Big Tech economics (06 Mar 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Mar 6, 2025

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Pluralistic: How much (little) are the AI companies making? (30 Jun 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jun 30, 2025

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Pluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Dec 18, 2024

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Pluralistic: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Nov 18, 2024

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Pluralistic: Supreme Court saves artists from AI (03 Mar 2026)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Mar 3, 2026

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Pluralistic: AI and the fatfinger economy (02 May 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow May 2, 2025

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Pluralistic: AI can't do your job (18 Mar 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Mar 18, 2025

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Pluralistic: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal "user agents" (07 May 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow May 7, 2024

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Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Aug 4, 2025

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Pluralistic: AI's productivity theater (25 Jul 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jul 25, 2024

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Pluralistic: Why I don't like AI art (25 Mar 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Mar 25, 2025

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Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jan 6, 2026

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Pluralistic: 10 Jun 2022

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jun 10, 2022

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Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Mar 2, 2026

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Pluralistic: Autoenshittification (24 July 2023)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jul 24, 2023

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Pluralistic: Even if you think AI search could be good, it won't be good (15 May 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow May 15, 2024

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Pluralistic: 30 Jan 2022

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Jan 30, 2022

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Pluralistic: The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us (02 Aug 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Aug 2, 2024

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Pluralistic: Big Tech disrupted disruption (08 Feb 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Feb 8, 2024

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Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Feb 5, 2024

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Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com Cory Doctorow Jun 20, 2022

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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Dec 5, 2025

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Pluralistic: 21 Aug 2022 The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve Reaches Apogee

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Aug 21, 2022

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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Sep 27, 2025

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Pluralistic: The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers (13 Mar 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Mar 13, 2025

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Cory Doctorow's Literary Works

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com Cory Doctorow Mar 31, 2020

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Pluralistic: Supervised AI isn't (23 August 2023)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow Aug 23, 2023

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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025)

pluralistic.net Author Cory Doctorow May 7, 2025

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