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2026-07-13 13:51:18 UTC

AI hucksters want the world to believe that their hallucinatory chatbots can do whatever job is needed what do they need humans for?
Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/13/go-meta-meta/

2026-07-10 14:23:36 UTC

There's every reason to think that extending personhood to AI will produce the same outcome as "rights for corporations," which thus has had negative impacts on our society
"Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/posthuman-as-in-no-humans/

2026-07-09 13:47:39 UTC

Those on the right view property rights as THE primary human right. Viewing property as an end unto itself and which makes it a terrible danger to our society and species
Post-political @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/08/wilhoitian/

2026-07-02 14:18:45 UTC

The AI bubble requires the production of reverse centaurs, to the exclusion of centaurs
The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/02/canonization/

2026-06-30 02:04:21 UTC

Google has turned fully parasitic, sucking the last drops of juice out of the open web before discarding its husk.
Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/29/arsonist-firefighters/

2026-06-23 03:00:03 UTC

Just make people's lives better. And making ordinary people's lives better is the last thing all the oligarchs want.
Good politics @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/22/8-for-what-we-will/

2026-06-21 02:05:55 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116783319772411325
The assholes who want to scam you into helping them keep their Ponzi scheme going
#note178l…2zam

2026-06-16 02:05:14 UTC

Ordinary folks will find ways to using technology to suit their own needs unforseen by its creators
AI and amateurism @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/15/vernacular/

2026-06-12 02:23:26 UTC

Only by working together can we move the world on past the current enshittocene
The world has moved on @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/

2026-06-07 04:50:01 UTC

AI bros seem to want to label AI as something that will solve all our problems for us, that way lies madness
Criticizing the everything machine @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/06/applied-counterescatology/

2026-06-06 03:09:20 UTC

What our technology is shows us what we're not, it forces us (yet again!) to revisit what sorts of things are needed to do the things that matter to us, and therefore, what makes us special.
Refining humanity @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/05/defining-humanity/

2026-05-28 14:56:42 UTC

Cryptography is no substitute for the rule of law and democracy, but it remains a key tool for securing and defending both
Hold on for dear life @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/28/we-live-in-a-society/

2026-05-27 14:20:51 UTC

The Zuckermuskians believe that other real actual people are just NPCs that they are free to abuse and discard as necessary in order to rearrange the world as their AI models see fit.
AI and a world without migrants @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/27/unnecessariat/

2026-05-22 02:11:17 UTC

Shopping is fundamentally an individual action and politics is a collective action and is best done with a big group of people, in bonds of solidarity.
Shopping isn't politics @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/21/purity-culture/

2026-05-15 14:31:51 UTC

The one policy everyone agrees on.
No one wants a permanent gerontocracy @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/15/not-ok-boomer/

2026-05-14 01:41:49 UTC

One commonality between AI bosses and fascists is the idea that everyone and everything can be reduced to numbers that can be plugged into a model which can be tweaked to produce a desired outcome
Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/vibe-governance/

2026-05-12 14:14:55 UTC

The real fight is over the paradigm where fascists insist that freedom and democracy are incompatible and only the "right people" are can be trusted with the levers of power.
A fascist paradigm @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/12/donella-meadows/

2026-05-11 14:06:51 UTC

Millions need to be mobilized in an effort to keep the experiment that is representative democracy alive
2024 (apart from the obvious) @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/11/postmortem/

2026-04-21 01:41:22 UTC

This is a deeply shitty timeline, but Comrade Trump keeps tripping over his red tie. Let's take the wins.
Comrade Trump @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/

2026-04-06 13:41:11 UTC

One reason bosses are so horny for AI is that they can use it to fire a ton of workers and use the resulting terror to force EVERYBODY's wages down.
Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/

2026-03-08 02:41:27 UTC

Some helpful tips to disenshittifying browsing the world wide web
The web is bearable with RSS @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/

2026-03-04 02:03:44 UTC

Just because someone is your ally now, doesn't mean they'll be your ally in the future
Supreme Court saves artists from AI @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap-2/

2026-03-02 14:23:28 UTC

If we don't understand a particular subject asking a chatbot for help won't cure our ignorance.
No one wants to read your AI slop @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/nonconsensual-slopping/

2026-02-28 14:40:09 UTC

These are the right states' rights. If the Feds won't enforce the law maybe state AGs can.
California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/28/golden-mean/

2026-02-26 15:25:07 UTC

Trump is not motivated by commitments to fairness and the rule of law, he's motivated by a desire to dominate and to enriching himself.
If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it) @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/26/hanged-for-a-sheep/

2026-02-25 14:38:32 UTC

Amazon's secret is that they use their monopoly power to push prices up across the ENTIRE economy.
The whole economy pays the Amazon tax @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/25/most-favored-nation/

2026-02-24 14:35:21 UTC

Running your public institution "like a business" is incredibly inefficient.
Socialist excellence in New York City @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/

2026-02-23 14:20:15 UTC

Copyright infringement is your least entertainment dollar.
Deplatform yourself @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/23/goodharts-lawbreaker/

2026-02-20 15:48:25 UTC

LLCs are the scammer's best friend, allowing them to evade the responsibilities of being good citizens. For nearly a century Brazil has shown a working method to curbing corporate excesses.
A perforated corporate veil @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/20/karioca-konzernrecht/

2026-02-17 13:39:51 UTC

Gig workers should be for all the hours they put in for their bosses, not just the ones where bosses decide they deserve to get paid for.
What's a "gig work minimum wage" @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/17/no-piecework/

2026-02-13 14:41:57 UTC

The trustbusting fires lit by Lina Khan's work still burn and one day could lead to breaking the power of the Epstein class over people's lives
Trump antitrust is dead @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/13/khanservatives/

2026-02-12 13:39:10 UTC

There's a better, cheaper, more effective, technologically sovereign tool already recognised only bolsters the union's case for jettisoning Palantir's products altogether.
Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/

2026-02-11 13:45:41 UTC

Crises precipitate change, and this can an opportunity to break the Visa/Mastercard duopoly
Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/

2026-02-09 13:39:45 UTC

Economic collapse helps the Epstein class only if society has no social safety net.
The Epstein class and collapse porn @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/09/sloppy-steve/

2026-02-07 14:40:47 UTC

It really is past time for copyright reforms, including the repealing parts of the DMCA.
End of the line for video essays @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

2026-02-06 14:08:40 UTC

The absurdities of the US immigration system.
Luxury Kafka @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/

2026-02-05 14:00:38 UTC

It's so easy to slip into the habit of thinking that nothing will change, but there was a time in living memory when it wasn't true. If it changed before, it can change again.
All laws are local @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/05/contingency/

2026-02-02 16:15:03 UTC

The whole system of "finance" is just a big circle jerk in order to extract wealth from common folks to enrich the Epstein class
Stock swindles @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/

2026-01-28 01:52:58 UTC

Let every politician know that there is glory in standing up for us – and let them know that betrayal will see them tossed overboard, to drown in our wake.
Carney isn't a hero (and that's OK) @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/27/i-want-to-do-it/

2026-01-26 15:28:30 UTC

"Flipping the table over in a poker game rigged in your favor because you resent having to pretend to play the game at all."
Trump and the unmighty dollar @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/

2026-01-23 02:37:47 UTC

"Careful shopping" is a tactic not a strategy for altering the world around us, but that can an easy mistake to make.
The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/22/optimized-for-unoptimizability/

2026-01-20 13:56:23 UTC

Techbros are using AI into conning bosses by promising a world where everyone follows order to the letter and heaps praise on them.
AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/20/i-would-prefer-not-to/

2026-01-20 02:37:34 UTC

Zuck believes that AI cab give the world he wants, one where everyone are basically robots and basically exists to increase his (and other billionaires) wealth according to schedule via his "social networking" platform
Social media without socializing @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/billionaire-solipsism/

2026-01-18 01:50:09 UTC

Ireland showed us: it just takes one country to defect from this global prisoner's dilemma, and then everything is up for grabs.
The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/

2026-01-17 03:54:18 UTC

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2026-01-16 01:52:56 UTC

The door blocking the way to a better future for all is open a crack, now we just have throw our weight to widen that tiny opening
How the Light Gets In @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/15/how-the-light-gets-in/

2026-01-15 01:52:11 UTC

The erosion of property rights has profound implications for our security, our privacy, and our society.
It's not normal @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/

2026-01-14 01:32:12 UTC

Sincerely regretting these ideas will not lose billions of dollars, destroy jobs or make your country more dependent on American tech.
Sorry, eh @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/

2026-01-13 01:51:00 UTC

Sometimes changing the rules is the optimal way forward
A winning trade war strategy for Canada @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/12/disenshittification-nation-2/

2026-01-11 02:15:26 UTC

A thing that governments can do (that is unrigging the market) with 100% reliability.
Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition) @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/10/markets-are-regulations/

2026-01-10 02:09:38 UTC

An actual "one weird trick" that's pretty fucking spectacular.
bunnie's piggyback hack @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/quantity-break/

2026-01-08 02:07:06 UTC

Writing is a critical skill, it teaches you to organize your thoughts so we can communicate clearly and concisely.
Using LLMs to churn out writing assignments is like asking others to do your thinking for you.
Writing vs AI @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/

2026-01-06 14:46:06 UTC

There will be plenty of work fixing the things that we broke thanks to the most dangerous AI psychosis of all – the hallucinatory belief that "writing code" is the same thing as "software engineering."
Code is a liability (not an asset) @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/

2026-01-05 14:57:48 UTC

Capitalism is a single-criterion optimization: it organizes itself around the accumulation of capital, to the exclusion of all other criteria
A world without people @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/

2025-12-18 15:05:55 UTC

"All the real money is in this socially useless, no-value-creating, hypertrophied, metastasized finance sector. Every gain in finance is matched by a loss. It all amounts to - literally - nothing."
A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/self-licking-ice-cream-cone/

2025-12-16 02:12:32 UTC

The historic opportunity and challenge before us is to reform labor unions which can lead to saving democracy itself
Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/15/class-war-labor-peace/

2025-12-14 02:32:30 UTC

Techbros dressing old scams in fancy new tech clothes in order to get away with their grift
Federal Wallet Inspectors @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/

2025-11-23 02:15:35 UTC

The racist, authoritarian neofeudal fantasy world bosses want.
Boss preppers @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/eschatology-watch/

2025-10-20 15:06:41 UTC

A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works.
The mad king's digital killswitch @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

2025-09-28 03:23:43 UTC

The material basis for the AI bubble, creating a growth story by claiming that defective AI can do your job, needed to be popped a long time ago
The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

2025-09-27 02:40:10 UTC

Apple like all corporate giants wants to be a feudal overlord which things like the EU Digital Markets Act try to oppose
Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/

2025-09-26 02:12:03 UTC

What unions could (must!) do about app-based work.
Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/

2025-09-24 14:08:38 UTC

They're going to give us all Howard Hughes disease.
The billionaires aren't OK @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/24/robo-lickspittle/

2025-09-23 14:25:54 UTC

Red-teaming the fossil fuel death cult's next move.
The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/

2025-09-22 14:23:30 UTC

Communications monopolies create single points of failure and also allow governments to curtail free speech
It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment) @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/22/one-throat-to-choke/

2025-09-18 14:59:08 UTC

When you stare into the LLM... the LLM stares back and in doing so demonstrates it is escellent at feeding our delusions
AI psychosis and the warped mirror @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/17/automating-gang-stalking-delusion/

2025-09-17 14:50:16 UTC

Monopolies and the cabals of "elites" that run them need to be regulated before their conspiracy ruins it all
Conspiratorialism's causal chain @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/17/cause-and-effect/

2025-09-16 14:07:43 UTC

The federated internet is a major tool in keeping the web free and open and to keep censorship in check
No such thing as selective censorship @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/16/too-many-throats-to-choke/

2025-09-12 02:03:55 UTC

Centaurs are those who choose when and how to use AI using it to the extent that it is useful, and throwing it away when it's not.
Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/

2025-09-11 02:14:46 UTC

The Rot Economy is the ideology of bosses who optimized their companies for short term cash gains for the oligarch class at the expense of everything else.
Hate the player AND the game @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/

2025-09-10 02:44:25 UTC

The function of the noncompete in America isn't to secure investment for knowledge-intensive industries – it's to stop the cashier at Wendy's from getting an extra $0.25/hour working the fry-trap at the McDonald's across the street.
Trump steals $400b from American workers @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/09/germanium-valley/

2025-09-09 02:24:48 UTC

The key to the myth that workers can be replaced by AI: an AI can consume all the "IP" produced by workers, but it doesn't have their process knowledge.
Fingerspitzengefühl @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/

2025-09-07 01:53:35 UTC

Raising the value of a stock without raising the value of the company.
Stock buybacks are stock swindles @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/computer-says-huh/

2025-09-06 02:21:18 UTC

Wikipedia is one of those things that just works despite and it does so by doing something no one has done before
Why Wikipedia works @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/

2025-09-04 03:01:06 UTC

Hope you like enshittification.
The worst possible antitrust outcome @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/unpunishing-process/

2025-09-02 15:33:29 UTC

Oligarchs figured out that the only way to keep their billions is to crush democracy and replace it with fascism
All (antitrust) politics are local @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/02/act-locally/

2025-09-02 02:39:54 UTC

Tech bosses are fundamentally at war with their customers and suppliers using the Darth Vader School of Business enshittification models
Darth Android @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/

2025-08-29 02:44:08 UTC

Trump is all about appearances, soundbites, and the libidinal satisfaction of watching corporate titans bend the knee to him
The capitalism of fools @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/strew-deal/

2025-08-27 02:42:16 UTC

Freedom for me but not for thee
By all means, tread on those people @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/

2025-08-25 15:18:33 UTC

Audiobooks are hands-down the most enshittified aspect of publishing
Enshittification, the audiobook @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/25/disenshittified-audiobooks/

2025-08-23 15:31:05 UTC

The MBA mind-virus turns its victims into "optimization"-obsessed zombies, but what they mean by "optimization" is that you will optimize your life to their benefit.
Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/23/become-unoptimizable/

2025-08-20 14:44:47 UTC

In a fair society, we'd have transparency for the powerful and privacy for everyone else
Become unoptimizable @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/billionaireism/

2025-08-18 15:48:54 UTC

Billionaires who don't really believe in the humanity of the people who create their wealth and whom they wield their power over.
Zuckermuskian solopsism @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/18/seeing-like-a-billionaire/

2025-08-16 03:20:43 UTC

Bluesky still needs a lot work to be enshittification-resistant and has to get federated ASAP
Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/

2025-08-15 01:58:07 UTC

NERD HARDER! is the answer every time a politician gets a technological idee-fixe about how to solve a social problem by creating a technology that can't exist.
"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/

2025-08-14 02:58:03 UTC

Maga was a bet that after victory was attained, the base could be made to settle for performative cruelty against people other than them.
Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage @npub1fdr…lvhs https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/

2024-12-27 14:54:20 UTC

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2024-07-30 14:42:02 UTC

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2024-07-15 02:48:56 UTC

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