"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." ( pluralistic.net )
Humans are not perfectly vigilant ( pluralistic.net )
The antitrust case against Apple ( pluralistic.net )
The foundational tenet of "the Cult of Mac" is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur:...
Pluralistic: The CHIPS Act treats the symptoms, but not the causes ( pluralistic.net )
"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) ( pluralistic.net )
Pluralistic: Tech workers and gig workers need each other (13 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow ( pluralistic.net )
Privacy first – Cory Doctorow ( pluralistic.net )
Here’s the “Privacy First” pitch: whatever is going on with all of the problems of the internet, all of these problems are made worse by commercial surveillance....
Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” ( pluralistic.net )
Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” ( pluralistic.net )
If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing - Pluralistic ( pluralistic.net ) Dutch
Don’t Be Evil ( pluralistic.net )
Microincentives and Enshittification ( pluralistic.net )
Forcing your computer to rat you out ( pluralistic.net )
"When we let corporations decide who is allowed to speak, they act with a mixture of carelessness and self-interest, becoming off-the-books deputies of authoritarian regimes and corrupt, powerful elites....
Forcing your computer to rat you out ( pluralistic.net )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2757988...
Enshittification: An explanation for why Reddit (and basically all corporate social media) is getting worse ( pluralistic.net )
Hey everyone, I see a lot of people throwing around the term "enshittification" to describe the long-term and systemic decline of many of the centralized social media platforms, most recently Reddit. I commented this elsewhere, but thought everyone might benefit for reading Cory Doctorow's original article coining the term. The...