So, my copy of “Homeland” got just a bit better. #wilwheaton #corydoctorow #Homeland @pluralistic
#CoryDoctorow
La « #merdification » du #web, avec #CoryDoctorow - @RadioCanada: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2047650/merdification-enshittification-cory-doctorow-decrypteurs
From: blenderdumbass . org
A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/it_s_better_to_want_it_than_to_need_it
#philosophy #politics #freesoftware #userfreedom #consent #ownership #corydoctorow #firesidefedi
Recently I heard part of a podcast in which the host (I think #CoryDoctorow ) mentioned that the cost (by volume) of ink for inkjet printers is more than the semen of winning racehorses.
Though my opinion of inkjet printers has been poor from their start, about 35 years ago I bought a small Epson model for practically nothing at a surplus store (HSC Electronics, then probably still called Halted Specialties Company, after its founders Hal and Ted). I found that I could fill the reservoir in its print head with fountain pen ink via a syringe with a hypodermic needle. I recall sometimes carrying it in a bag and at my university printing letters that I had written using my #AtariPortfolio palmtop computer. (It also fit in my jacket pocket, ran code that I could write and compile on a PC with Borland software, and ran on 3 AA batteries!)
ORG turns 20 this year! 🎈 🎉 🎂
To celebrate two decades of fighting for digital rights, join us for a special event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in conversation Maria Farrell.
Register now to hear about Cory's writing, surveillance capitalism, the ‘enshittification’ of digital platforms and how to fight Big Tech ✊
It's not one to miss!
🗓️ Wed 16 July, 6pm BST
💻 Zoom
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/
#ORG20 #digitalrights #bigtech #corydoctorow #enshittification #privacy #capitalism #surveillance
The InternetSucksNow, and it happened on purpose | #FrontBurner | #CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen. 🇨🇦
#CoryDoctorow #BigTechSucks #MakeInternerBetter. #tech #enshitification
"As with blockchain, 99% of all conversations about AI are non-consensual."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/cory-doctorow-GZCk_wnN
From: blenderdumbass . org
A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/it_s_better_to_want_it_than_to_need_it
#philosophy #politics #freesoftware #userfreedom #consent #ownership #corydoctorow #firesidefedi
Author Cory Doctorow will be in Tualatin!
Sunday, June 22, 2 p.m.
Tualatin Public Library community room
https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/library/author-talk-cory-doctorow
#ScienceFiction #authors #corydoctorow #tualatin #pdx #oregon
[PODCAST] The problem(s) with platforms by #DemocracyWorks with #CoryDoctorow
https://pca.st/episode/026e66ba-e19b-4251-a103-b6626d201807
#MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #democracy #governance #HealOurCulture
AI image generated by Wes Fryer using ChatGPT 4o.
It's Better to Want It Than to Need It
A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?
READ OR LISTEN!
A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?
READ OR LISTEN!
Doctorow's Chicken Little is a dark, punchy sci-fi on tech and power; smart, short and satisfyingly complete.
★★★★★
Full review: https://puf.io/books/chicken-little---cory-doctorow/
Read it for free: https://reactormag.com/chicken-little/
One change
There’s a pretty obvious incentive at play when companies have the ability to unilaterally alter how their products work after you buy them and you are legally prohibited to change how the product works after you buy them. This is the first lesson of the Darth Vader MBA: “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
~ Cory Doctorow, from Pluralistic: Brother makes a demon-haunted printer
slip:4upupi1.
There are many wrongs to right in the world. This one “small” legal wrinkle doesn’t seem like a big deal at first glance. And then…
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"It's not that #Facebook trapped us by hacking our #dopamineloops, they trapped us by making sure that once our #friends were there they could not leave." @pluralistic
Take a moment to watch this interview of #CoryDoctorow with #BriahnaJoyGray
A few of my influences: #hashtagRefresh #CoryDoctorow, #DavidGraeber. Toss in some #DavidAttenborough and #AlanKay
…
Wirklich sehr interessanter, lehrreicher wie unterhaltsamer Podcast mit @pluralistic
Understood: Who Broke the Internet?
Webseite der Episode: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews
From: blenderdumbass . org
A lot of people claim that they need to use proprietary software, either for work or something else. And the question is. Do they consent to it, or the existence of a need makes it some sort of a power dynamic?
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/it_s_better_to_want_it_than_to_need_it
#philosophy #politics #freesoftware #userfreedom #consent #ownership #corydoctorow #firesidefedi
#CoryDoctorow on how we lost the internet
Cory Doctorow mourns the "lost" internet like a pirate missing his parrot 🦜, while LWN.net desperately peddles subscriptions like it's the last bread at a bakery sale 🍞. Oh, the #irony of #paywalls lamenting the demise of free access! 😂
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1021871/4bec46993258f6b7/ #CoryDoctorow #LostInternet #FreeAccess #HackerNews #ngated
Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1021871/4bec46993258f6b7/
#HackerNews #CoryDoctorow #LostTheInternet #InternetHistory #DigitalRights #TechnologyDiscussion
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