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2026-11-12 13:02:10
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Inside: Uber's labor crash; and more!
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/12/starvation-wages/
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A vast, multilane queue of bright yellow, old fashioned taxis. Standing amidst them are 16th century etchings of ragged mendicants. Looming over the scene is a black pillar with the Uber logo.
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2026-11-12 13:02:45
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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Uber's labor crash: Replacing serfs with robots just doesn't pencil out.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117605462605787171
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2026-11-12 13:03:11
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Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* The missing quadrant in responses to AI
https://www.normaltech.ai/p/the-missing-quadrant-in-responses
* Canada must invest in AI now, before we miss our chance to lose all our money in the bubble crash, by Mark Carney
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/11/op-ed-canada-must-invest-in-ai-now-before-we-miss-our-chance-to-lose-all-our-money-in-the-bubble-crash-by-mark-carney/
* Friends Don’t Let Friends Sign Up for Medicare Advantage. Here’s Why.
https://economicpopulist.substack.com/p/friends-dont-let-friends-sign-up
* The Honeypot That Might End the AI Boom
https://prospect.org/2026/11/10/honeypot-that-might-end-the-ai-boom-jensen-huang-invidia/
* What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/12/location-tracking-apps-parental-surveillance/689031/
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2026-11-12 13:03:26
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Cory Doctorow
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#25yrsago
ObL got the name "Al Qaeda" from Asimov's Foundation;
#25yrsago
Folky Song Funny Note
https://craphound.com/misc/Folky_Song_Funny_Note.mp3
#20yrsago
PATRIOT scares Canadian unis off US servers
https://web.archive.org/web/20080204033238/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.20061111.wxuniversities11
#15yrsago
Minimum wage hike coming to Guangdong, the world’s factory
https://web.archive.org/web/20111110113740/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/111109/china-economy-manufacturing-guangdong
#10yrsago
EFF in Trump’s America: Protecting Tomorrow
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/11/protecting-tomorrow
#10yrsago
America’s actually had worse presidential races than this one
https://www.loweringthebar.net/2016/11/worst-presidential-race.html
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2026-11-12 13:03:45
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
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#10yrsago
The internet’s core infrastructure is dangerously unsupported and could crumble (but we can save it!)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170222232454/https://fordfoundcontent.blob.core.windows.net/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf
#10yrsago
Fact-checking Trump’s plan for the first 100 days
https://www.npr.org/2016/11/10/501597652/fact-check-donald-trumps-first-100-days-action-plan
#10yrsago
Dennis the Dentist: on the unkillable wrongness of nominative determinism
https://timharford.com/2016/11/rich-the-banker-whats-not-in-a-name/
#10yrsago
How to fight Trump, starting right now
https://medium.com/@anildash/forget-why-its-time-to-get-to-work-c49ac5f0da20#.l0xpc3pps
#10yrsago
Anti-burglary advice, from burglars
https://web.archive.org/web/20161118141701/https://www.kgw.com/news/investigations/we-asked-86-burglars-how-they-broke-into-homes/344213396
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2026-11-12 13:03:56
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pluralistic@mamot.fr
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#10yrsago
Serbian ultra-nationalists celebrate Trump’s victory
https://globalvoices.org/2016/11/10/nationalists-and-populists-in-serbia-and-macedonia-celebrate-trumps-victory/
#10yrsago
Leonard Cohen wrote the perfect anthem for our times
https://memex.craphound.com/2016/11/11/leonard-cohen-wrote-the-perfect-anthem-for-our-times/
#10yrsago
“Hitler’s only kidding about the antisemitism” New York Times, 1922
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/02/10/1922-hitler-in-bavaria/?_r=0&smid=tw-share
#10yrsago
Rules for surviving an autocracy
https://web.archive.org/web/20161111205036/https://www.nybooks.com/daily/s3/nov/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival.html
#1yrago
American corporate criminals in the crosshairs (finally)
https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/12/with-a-fountain-pen/#recidivism
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2026-11-12 13:04:30
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Cory Doctorow
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#1yrago
A tale of three customer service chatbots
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/sorry-to-bother-you/#we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to
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