that is not so much science fiction anymore.
the dishwasher, which stopped being able to validate third-party dishes the week before when Disher went under
#future #science-fiction #CoryDoctorow #internet #enshittyfication #verkacken
He aquí un fragmento del libro ‘Radicalized’ de Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, la historia se llama ‘Unauthorized Bread’, contiene rebelión ante máquinas IoT. Está bien chévere.
#CoryDoctorow on why he doesn’t join #Bluesky:
I don't know why Bluesky hasn't added the federation systems that would enable freedom of exit to its service. Perhaps there are excellent technical reasons to prioritize rolling out the other systems they've created so far. Frankly, it doesn't matter. So long as Bluesky can be a trap, I won't let myself be tempted.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast
Fain led the UAW to an historic strike: the UAW took on all three of the Big Three automakers, and cleaned their clocks. UAW workers walked away with three new contracts, all set to expire in 2028. Fain then called upon every union to bargain for contracts that run out in 2028, because if every union contract expires in 2028, we've got the makings of a general strike.
That means that when the next presidential election rolls around, it's going to be in the middle of the most militant moment in a century of US labor history. That is an opportunity.
Labor movements fight fascists. They always have.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/11/rip-jane-mcalevey/
#CoryDoctorow #TradeUnions #antifa #WorkersRights #GeneralStrike
this is something i can totally agree to. that was the basic reason i finally ended up with hubzilla. and i don't see any reason to change that atm ....
I don't know why Bluesky hasn't added the federation systems that would enable freedom of exit to its service. Perhaps there are excellent technical reasons to prioritize rolling out the other systems they've created so far. Frankly, it doesn't matter. So long as Bluesky can be a trap, I won't let myself be tempted. My rule – I don't join a service that I can't leave without switching costs – is my Ulysses Pact, and it's keeping me safe from danger I've sailed into too many times before.
#CoryDoctorow #enshittification #mastodon #bluesky
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Bluesky and enshittification; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDaeQm91coM
26 min video
#bigtech #CoryDoctorow #TMR
People are already getting really badly hurt, and it’s only going to get worse. We’re poised to break through key planetary boundaries – loss of biosphere diversity, ocean acidification, land poisoning – whose damage will be global, profound and sustained. Once we rupture these boundaries, we have no idea how to repair them. None of our current technologies will suffice, nor will any of the technologies we think we know how to make or might know how to make.
These boundaries are the point of no return, the point at which it won’t matter if we yank the wheel, because the bus is going over the cliff, swerve or no.
Focus on the swerve. ...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31992218
https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #BusinessAsUsual #TheSwerve #CoryDoctorow #LetsRoll #MassCivilResistance
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow #Monopolies #Murdoch ☞ The last days of #Myspace https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/17/live-by-the-swordlive-by-the-sword/#unfriending-tom "low switching costs are kryptonite for network effects."
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow #Health ☞ #California 's chance for universal health care https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/28/american-exceptionalism/#ab-1400
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow #CivilRights ☞ The once and future mass-resignation and what it means for working people https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/29/ordinance-of-labourers/#we-all-quit
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow ☞ Unions are finally fighting two-tier contracts https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/25/strikesgiving/#shed-a-tier
Though corporations in America routinely break the law, often with fatal consequences, it's fair to say America has no corporate criminals, because to have criminals, you need a criminal system that identifies criminal conduct and holds it to account. America does not have that.
When American corporations break the law, the individuals in the corporation are generally insulated from criminal liability because it's considered unfair to hold anyone – even the millionaire top execs paid to be the person with whom the buck stops – criminally liable for institutional crimes.
#CoryDoctorow #corporation #crime #justice #law #criminal #liability
https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/12/with-a-fountain-pen/#recidivism
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow #DRM #DigitalRestrictions ☞ The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped [sic] https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#felony-contempt-of-business-model
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow #PressFreedom ☞ The #Chicago Tribune is being murdered before our eyes https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/16/sociopathic-monsters/#all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow #OpenAccess ☞ Open Access Ninja https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/05/masha-rides-again/#rogue-archivist
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ #Facebook algorithm boosts pro-Facebook news https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#zuckerveganism
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow #Education ☞ Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hypervigilance/#radical-transparency
● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/13/post-bork-era/#our-streets
