Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Today's links Lindsay Owens's "Gouged": The end of a fair price and what that means for your wallet.

Today's links Priceful: So worthless we can tell you what it's worth.

Today's links Itch scratching: Love, care and self-actualization.

Today's links Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs: A "settlement" that promises less than nothing.

Today's links The Claude Delusion: What if we're the ones having hallucinations?

Today's links Textured: The surprises are what matter.

Today's links On the sincerity of AI bosses: Fascism is always an incoherent bundle.

Today's links How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses: If you can't impose switching costs, just eliminate the competition.

Today's links Everybody pees: Even Jeff Bezos.

Today's links But do you use keyboard shortcuts?

Today's links LLMs are real, AI is fake: No, it didn't "go rogue."

Today's links Inefficiency is bad, actually: Now, "resiliency" on the other hand… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

Today's links Anti-vax/anti-trust: Remembering saves lives.

Today's links How corporate America built a better Roach Motel: Hostages beat customers every day.

Today's links Google skates: Another federal judge loses a game of peek-a-boo.

Today's links Amazon achieves enshittification inception: Cheating on your fraud is a hell of a thing.

Today's links Preparing for a post-Trump internet: You'd better hope it's also a post-American internet.

Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means scraping.

Today's links The age of disinvention: 1⃣2⃣0⃣0⃣1⃣2⃣0⃣0⃣1⃣2⃣0⃣0⃣1⃣2⃣0⃣0⃣1⃣2⃣0⃣0⃣1⃣2⃣0⃣0⃣ Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

Today's links How Canada can help Americans and defeat America: True Carneyism has never been tried.

Today's links Born on technology's third base: Material forces shape life-chances.

Today's links The actual epistemic crisis: AI's assault on reality is an opportunistic infection.

Today's links The ordinariness of evil: Stop selling AI (bad).

Today's links IP can't save you from AI: Property rights cannot substitute for labor rights and privacy rights.

Today's links Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture': The definitive textbook (with comics!).

Today's links Capital formation: Going legit means going mainstream.

Today's links Model collapse: Living in a world that's trained on itself.

Today's links Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone's gonna fleece these rubes, why not me?

Today's links The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction: The only way to win is not to play.

Today's links Digital sewer socialism: Mamdani's Public Interest Technologists are what DOGE should have been.

Today's links Eternal Sloptember: Mark Zuckerberg and the fantasy of social media without socializing.

Today's links Google is a scammer's paradise: The internet's absentee landlord.

Today's links Post-American compute for a post-American Internet: Building cooperative human rights computing infrastructure in Puerto Rico, the EU, Canada and Mexico.

Today's links Dualism: Why not both?

Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy.

Today's links Better to beg forgiveness: Don't ring the doorbell at the house of no unless you absolutely must.

Today's links The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing: Since 1850, San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce has been pissing in our mouths and calling it rain.

Today's links Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global: The good globalism.

Today's links Discernment: How can you fact-check AI when you're asking it to teach you something you don't understand?

Today's links How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump): Grant me the courage to change the things I can.

Today's links Apple's robo-repo: Privatizing the risk premium, socializing its costs.

Today's links AI solipsists and AI cynics: You don't have to believe that AI "works" to believe that it's a good investment.