Pluralistic: Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow's essays and daily links on technology, politics, economics, culture, and digital rights.

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• Pluralistic: Thwarted (09 Oct 2026) #Politics #Economics #DigitalRights

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  Oct 9, 2026

• Pluralistic: Disloyalty (07 Oct 2026) #AI #Monopolies #Tech

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  Oct 7, 2026

• Pluralistic: Swapping money for expertise (06 Oct 2026) #AI #Expertise #DigitalRights

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  Oct 6, 2026

• Pluralistic: Scrutinized (05 Oct 2026) #Surveillance #Tech #Privacy

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  Oct 5, 2026

• Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) #Economics #Climate #Technology

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  Oct 3, 2026

• Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) #Politics #Elections #DigitalRights

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  Oct 1, 2026

• Pluralistic: Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026) #Tech #Economics #DigitalRights

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  Sep 29, 2026

• Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026) #Tech #DigitalRights #Economics

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  Sep 28, 2026

• Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) #Tech #OpenSource #Community

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  Sep 25, 2026

• Pluralistic: Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) #Antitrust #Oligarchy #DigitalRights

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  Sep 22, 2026

• Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) #AI #Tech #DigitalRights

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  Sep 21, 2026

• Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026) #AI #Technology #Culture

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  Sep 18, 2026

• Pluralistic: On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) #AI #Tech #Politics

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  Sep 17, 2026

• Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) #AI #Tech #Economics

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  Sep 16, 2026

• Pluralistic: Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) #Tech #Politics #Culture

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  Sep 15, 2026

• Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) #Tech #Productivity #DigitalRights

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  Sep 14, 2026

• Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) #AI #Tech #DigitalRights

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  Sep 12, 2026

• Pluralistic: Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026) #Economics #Tech #DigitalRights

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  Sep 11, 2026

• Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) #Antitrust #DigitalRights #TechPolicy

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  Sep 9, 2026

• Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026) #Tech #Business #DigitalRights

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  Sep 7, 2026

• Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026) #Tech #Antitrust #DigitalRights

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  Sep 5, 2026

• Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) #Tech #Economics #DigitalRights

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  Sep 4, 2026

• Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026) #Tech #Politics #DigitalRights

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  Sep 3, 2026

• Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026) #Tech #AI #Research

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  Sep 2, 2026

• Pluralistic: The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026) #Tech #DigitalRights #Innovation

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  Aug 26, 2026

• Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) #Technology #Politics #Economics

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  Aug 24, 2026

• Pluralistic: Born on technology's third base (21 Aug 2026) #AI #Tech #DigitalRights

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  Aug 22, 2026

• Pluralistic: The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026) #AI #Tech #DigitalRights

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  Aug 20, 2026

• Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) #AI #Technology #Ethics

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  Aug 19, 2026

• Pluralistic: IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) #AI #Copyright #DigitalRights

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  Aug 18, 2026