Trump is making the case for a post-American world better than anyone else
Trump's America can't even win a rigged game @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/table-flipper/
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How can you fact-check AI when you're asking it to teach you something you don't understand?
Discernment @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/hitl-ers/
Those in power believe that some people are born to wield and deserve that power. Their evidence is that they hold the levers of power.
Deranged billionaires and their syndromes @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/lucky-orifices/
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 @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/posthuman-as-in-no-humans/
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 @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/
Price gouging is one of things AI's very good at and one the quickest ways to profitability
The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/07/30/pay-for-privacy/
Every billionaire is a machine for producing policy failures at scale.
Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/autocrats-of-trade-2/
If corporations are foolish enough to reimplement their code using an LLM, they create a vast new commons of public domain software
The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/23/poison-pill/
Enshittification is the great leveler of corporations and are increasingly run by bloodless business sociopaths who go to enormous lengths to project an air of sober adulthood
Technocarcinization @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/07/01/ontogeny/
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 @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/06/29/arsonist-firefighters/
Boosted by @tchambers@indieweb.social
Ordinary folks will find ways to using technology to suit their own needs unforseen by its creators
AI and amateurism @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/06/15/vernacular/
"Socialism or barbarism" isn't just a cliche - it's actually a choice on the ballot.
Austerity creates fascism @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/always-great/
Enshittification happens when someone sets out to reduce your choices, and then uses that lock-in to make things worse for you in order to make things better for themself.
The enshittification multiverse @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/27/analogs-and-analogies/
Killing dickovers is one step in seizing the means of computation and disenshittify the internet
Dealing with dickovers @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/07/21/dickovers/
The EU can't afford to wait for Trump to brick one or more of its member states to (finally, at long last) take this threat seriously.
EU ready to cave to Trump on tech @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/digital-subjugation/
Worry that AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into our civilization's walls, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations
A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/
This is a white-hot, hair-on-fire emergency. And there isn't a moment to spare.
State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/31/actual-federalist-society/
Some helpful tips to disenshittifying browsing the world wide web
The web is bearable with RSS @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/
Zuck keeps accidentally freeing his hostages.
Tiktokification shall set us free @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/for-youze/
AI is almost like a Greek myth. The thing that is a good tool for the skilled people is being sold as a thing to reduce the number of skilled people hired.
Dualism @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/08/03/andor/
Techbros dressing old scams in fancy new tech clothes in order to get away with their grift
Federal Wallet Inspectors @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/
Economic collapse helps the Epstein class only if society has no social safety net.
The Epstein class and collapse porn @pluralistic@mamot.frhttps://pluralistic.net/2026/02/09/sloppy-steve/
It's past time for a post-American world, and Comrade Trump is delivering it
The three armies fighting for the post-American world @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/
It really is past time for copyright reforms, including the repealing parts of the DMCA.
End of the line for video essays @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/
It really is past time for copyright reforms, including the repealing parts of the DMCA.
End of the line for video essays @pluralistic@mamot.fr
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/
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