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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 02:32:38 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 04:10:53 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 23:58:43 JST Cory Doctorow

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   If you enjoyed that and would like to read more of my fiction, may I suggest that you pre-order my next novel as a print book, ebook or audiobook, via the Kickstarter I launched yesterday?

   https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/picks-and-shovels-marty-hench-at-the-dawn-of-enshittification?ref=created_projects

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 07:03:16 JST Cory Doctorow

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   The other element, of course, is the eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'; there's an SVG of this on Wikimedia Commons by a user called 'Cryteria,' licensed CC BY 3.0, which I use whenever I want to illustrate a harm caused by computers:

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 17:46:05 JST Cory Doctorow

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   The fact that this makes you worse at your job, that it loses your boss money, is no guarantee that you will be spared. Rich people make *great* marks, and they can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Markets won't solve this one - but worker power can.

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 19:10:32 JST Cory Doctorow

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   That would explain why Google capo Sundar Pichai ordered his employees not to speak out against Trump:

   https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-memes-poke-fun-company-rules-political-discussion-2024-11

   And why he followed up by publicly oscillating Trump's sphincter:

   https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/1854207788290850888

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