Any act of repair a gratifying gesture of refusal and subversion these days. A poke in the eye to corporate waste and consumer lassitude.
Feeling like renegade heating engineer Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro) of ‘Brazil’ right now, having decided: eff no, not into landfill—not yet.
And how fitting: while finishing up, @pluralistic heard on CBC radio discussing DCA & right-to-repair.
details in #alttext
This talk is today and open to the public! The zoom link is here! @pluralistic #corydoctorow #enshittification https://iu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Potbwk7eTlyoeYwaZRr7rw#/registration
On Monday afternoon at SXSW, @pluralistic will be in conversation with @mike about building sustainable open networks that (hopefully) ward off “enshittification.” (We'll be recording this one for a future episode of the Dot Social podcast — check out all the past episodes on our PeerTube channel, @dot_social.)
RSVP here: https://lu.ma/xbve5fa0
Do you want to your catheter inserted by a nurse on food stamps, who drove an Uber until midnight the night before, and skipped breakfast this morning in order to make rent?"
Nurses already had enough problems.
"Before Shiftkey offers a nurse a shift, it purchases that worker's credit history from a data-broker. Specifically, it pays to find out how much credit-card debt the nurse is carrying, and whether it is overdue.
The more desperate the nurse's financial straits are, the lower the wage on offer. Because the more desperate you are, the less you'll accept to come and do the gruntwork of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying."
from https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/#enshittification-eh by @pluralistic
@RickiTarr there is a short Story by #corydoctorow in the subject. @pluralistic
"Masque of the Red death"
#CoryDoctorow und #YanisVaroufakis in einem neuen Jacobin-Gespräch nehm ich gern mit auf Spaziergang.
Why is there never a Luigi around when you need one?
"The crimes that monsters commit in the name of ideology pale in comparison to the crimes the wealthy commit for money." --Cory Doctorow
Doctorow lays out the criminal nature of private equity companies and the Nazi-era corporate roots in their DNA.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben
#PrivateEquity #CoryDoctorow #Nazis #Luigi #TuckersBalls
Here's a link to a Cory Doctorow article in which he lays out in detail how private equity works and how it's the nearest thing to legalized theft and fraud other than Musk's continuing illegal raid of the US government:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben
#USGovernment #CoryDoctorow #PrivateEquity #Theft #Fraud #ElonMusk #TuckersBalls
Canadian writer, activist, and tech critic to log in as System Crash's first-ever guest host: Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic). Brian Merchant and Cory examine Elon Musk’s campaign of governmental destruction in Washington DC, how #enshittification will continue to unfold in 2025, and what, if any, hope there is for us, the humans and the users.
#bigtech #corydoctorow #democracy #internet #future #fediverse #socialweb #indieweb
https://youtu.be/zEZPa-YzaUs
For anyone interested, @pluralistic will be doing a talk at the Media School at Indiana University on March 7th 4pm EST! It's free and you can register for the talk here! #corydoctorow #enshittification
https://events.iu.edu/mediaiub/event/1783095-with-great-power-came-no-responsibility-how-enshitti
Auschwitz herdenking 27 jan a.s.
Uit https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/13/speeches-by-politicians-banned-at-80th-anniversary-of-auschwitzs-liberation:
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“There will be no political speeches at all,” said Piotr Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum, in a recent interview with the Guardian.
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Dat begrijp ik. Want het AM (Auschwitz Memorial) heeft een voormalige IDF militair in het bestuur en is uitgesproken pro-Israël (zie onderaan https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-council/). En is dus:
*SOMS* TÉGEN GENOCIDE
En niet alleen op dat punt is het AM selectief, tevens uit het Guardian artikel:
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In 2005, Vladimir Putin visited the 60th anniversary commemoration, giving a speech in which he said it was “inconceivable to think that people are capable of such barbarity” and paid tribute to the Soviet soldiers who liberated the camp. This time, however, no Russian delegation has been invited.
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Volgens https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/the-number-of-victims/overall-numbers-by-ethnicity-or-category-of-deportee/ zijn er 15.000 Sovjets vermoord in Auschwitz, en bovendien hebben Sovjets het concentratiekamp bevrijd. Dat er géén vertegenwoordigers van vermoorde Sovjets worden uitgenodigd, is (mede vanwege het spreekverbod) opmerkelijk.
Verder uit the Guardian:
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“The Polish government treats the safe participation of the leaders of Israel in the commemorations on 27 January 2025, as part of paying tribute to the Jewish nation, millions of whose daughters and sons became victims of the Holocaust carried out by the Third Reich,” read a resolution released by Tusk’s office.
Cywiński described the whole discussion as a “media provocation”, claiming there was no indication that Netanyahu had ever planned to visit the ceremony in the first place. He said, however, that a sizeable Israeli delegation was expected at the event.
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Ook als Netanyahu NIET ZÉLF komt, maakt het AM dus een keihard onderscheid tussen de afkomst van de mensen die in Auschwitz zijn vermoord (in 2023 moest de Duitse regering het AM eraan "helpen herinneren" dat er in Auschwitz ook veel LHBTI+ mensen waren geliquideerd: https://apnews.com/article/politics-germany-14bcd8e50b302637f6dce81a4e25c733). En dus is het AM:
RACISTISCH
En m.b.t. "no indication that Netanyahu had EVER planned to visit the ceremony", uit https://www.jpost.com/International/Netanyahu-at-Auschwitz-Never-again van 27 jan. 2010:
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Netanyahu at Auschwitz: NEVER AGAIN
PM draws on memory of Holocaust victims who were murdered in "blood-soaked Europe" to send clear message to "new Amaleks" in era of controversy over Israel's right to self-defense.
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Netanyahu chose not to specifically refer to the Iranian regime and its nuclear drive, but has drawn a link between the Nazis and the Iranian threat to the Jews in many recent speeches.
“AmYisrael Chai, we have returned to our homeland, to the land ofour forefathers, to Jerusalem, our capital. We have converged fromall corners of the world, Holocaust survivors, Arab Jews, Jews fromformer Soviet Union states, Ethiopian Jews,” Netanyahu said,choosing frosty Poland as the location for his rebuke to those whoclaim the Jewish population of Israel is comprised mostly ofemigrants [sic] from Europe.
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Voor degenen die weten wie Cory Doctorow is: ook hem heb ik geblokt (net als heel veel anderen) voor het boosten van progenocide propaganda van het AM (zie https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/113860730443669912).
En zie ook de foto's onderaan https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/113810532533520943 als je mij maar een antisemiet vindt.
I just made a Kickstarter account, and supported a Kickstarter, and bought an audiobook, and set up a LibroFM account, and installed the app for LibroFM, and now I await the arrival of Cory Doctorow's latest audiobook, "Picks & Shovels: Marty Hench at the Dawn of Enshittification" narrated by Wil Wheaton which I will OWN OUTRIGHT @pluralistic https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/picks-and-shovels-marty-hench-at-the-dawn-of-enshittification?ref=thanks-copy
#Kickstarter #CoryDoctorow #PicksAndShovels #LibroFM #NewInternet #DRMFree
the dishwasher, which stopped being able to validate third-party dishes the week before when Disher went under
@timnitGebru I think of Cory Doctorow's novella "Masque of the Red Death" – A wealthy financier builds and manages a doomsday vault, designed to withstand societal collapse. - Every time I see articles like this. I hope they all finish the same way as the story ends! #CoryDoctorow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalized_(Doctorow_book)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
@pluralistic 's words on Bluesky and #enshittification are, to me, true.
These two paragraphs say everything about why I can't trust Bluesky to always have good intentions:
'But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out. I know those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.
They did care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils.'
@pluralistic I would just like to say thank you for your long form writing - it is excellent!
I've taken your advice and follow it via an RSS reader. That's great, but it also means you don't know I'm reading your work.
So I'm publicly thanking you here 
#CoryDoctorow, you da man 
Here's a good example:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/
(About the terrible #DMCA 1201 copyright law)
#Enshittification #CoryDoctorow
Egal was, er hat’s schon gesagt. Früher, klüger und besser: „Nie wieder werde ich Energien in den Aufbau eines Publikums stecken auf einer Plattform, deren Management meine Verbindung zu diesem Publikum nach Belieben kappen kann.“ Viel mehr muss man nicht sagen zu #Bluesky und Threads und anderen zentralisierten kommerziellen Versuchen, den Kurznazidienst #Twitter #X in nett nachzubauen.
Also: "potentially lethal" #AI
"I think it behooves us to be a little skeptical of stories about AI driving people to believe wrong things and commit ugly actions. Not that I like the AI slop that is filling up our social media, but when we look at the ways that AI is harming us, slop is pretty low on the list."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/29/hobbesian-slop/
#corydoctorow @pluralistic
