The EU flag. The field has been turned from blue to orange. In the center of the circle of stars is Trump's open, hooting gob. Behind the orange field we see the faded traces of a printed circuit board.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/d...
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A hand-tinted picture of a 1950s Univac control room, the walls lined with computer cabinets, a male operator in a suit seated at a steel desk replete with control knobs and an oscilloscope. The image has been altered. A shiny robot is bursting out of a hole in the checked floor; the back wall bears the Anthropic logo, and the main computer cabinet now has the Claude Code logo.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/04/02/l...
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A US $100 bill. Benjamin Franklin's face has been replaced with an orange blur surmounted by yellow candy-floss hair. The '100s' have been altered to read '000' and the 'ONE HUNDRED' now reads 'NONE HUNDRED.' The Secretary of the Treasury's signature has been replaced with Trump's signature. The series of the bill reads '47.'
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Trumpismo vs minilateralism; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/04/01/m...
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Image: Chad Davis (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/chaddavisphotography/ CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ -- Jami430 (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ballot_box_in_Denver,_October_2020.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: State Dems must stop ICE from stealing the midterms; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/31/a...
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An early 20th C painting advertising a magic show, it features a mustachioed, tuxedoed conjurer beating the Devil at poker with four aces in his hand, as a giggling demon on his shoulder whispers advice in his ear and the Devil looks chagrined. The image has been altered: the Devil now has Trump hair and orange skin. The demon perched on the magician's shoulder has the face of Adam Smith.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Market participation is exhausting; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/30/p...
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A stern robed judge at the top of an orange slide, holding a gavel, his feet facing us. He is in a courtroom. On the walls behind him hang portraits of Lina Khan and John Sherman. Image: Harrison Keely (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Clay_County_Courthouse_courtroom_in_2007.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en -- DocteurCosmos (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Playground_slide_close-up.jpg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The cost of doing business; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/f...
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💩 Ho letto il nuovo saggio di Doctorow e ci ho trovato tanti spunti interessanti. A quando la versione in italiano?
#web #foss #doctorow #pluralistic #antitrust
A photo of people crowded around a craps table, shot with a low POV, where the dice would end up after a throw, looking back towards the players. The table is dotted with rising mushroom clouds, and at the head end of the table yawns the smoking mouth of a cannon.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Goodhart's Law vs "prediction markets"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/24/d...
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A 1950's pharmacy with a labcoated pharmacist behind the counter. The pharmacist's head has been replaced with the poop emoji from the cover of 'Enshittification,' its mouth covered with a black bar scrawled with grawlix. The pharmacy has been made over to look haunted, with purple mist rising from the ground and cobwebs in the top corners. A CVS Pharmacy sign hangs in the background.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Understaffing as a form of enshittification; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/23/n...
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I've always agreed that bluesky is not enshittification resistant. And when it finally fully enshitifies, I'll park the account, just like I did with twitter
#enshittification #bluesky #privacy #doctorow #pluralistic
A bearded man's cross-sectioned head, upside down, the skull flipped open; his brain is falling onto a tabriz rug below. His visible eye is wide and orange. The background is murky, green-tinted folds of a brain.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/19/j...
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Two boxers squaring off. One (with blue gloves) has the head of William Gibson. The other (red gloves) has the head of Margaret Thatcher. The background is an engraving of a 16th century complex machine. Image: Dylan Parker (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uncle_Gibby.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/t...
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A pegboard at a hardware store, festooned with tools, with smoke closing in on it from above and below.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Tools vs uses; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/16/w...
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A Chinese porcelain sculpture depicting a Maoist struggle session; a cadre in uniform and CCCP cap stands by while a Party official forces a man in a dunce cap to his knees. The image has been altered. The cadre now has the 'fat baby' JD Vance head. The Party official has orange skin, Trump hair, and Trump's eyes and mouth. Both figures have US flag lapel pins. Behind them is a soiled US flag.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Corrupt anticorruption; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/14/i...
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A cross-section of a man's head. His brain has been replaced with an intricate mass of wooden gearing, being puamped and cranked by three 16th century druges. Behind them is a blown up view of a microchip. Behind the head is a stylized illustration of grey matter, blown out with lots of saturation and blended in places with tumbled rocks. Image: ZeptoBars (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microchip-24lcs52-HD.jpg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Three more AI psychoses; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/n...
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A cutaway of a rocky underground, with a cylindrical brick cistern. Trapped in the prison is a 16th century drudge seated before a wheel on which rest a series of books that rotate along with the wheel.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/m...
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Times Square, lit up by night. Every ad sprouts a giant CCTV bubble. A green smoke crawls over the landscape. Image: Jakub Hałun (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_Square,_New_York_City,_20231006_1916_2338.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en -- Myotus (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vandal_dome_style_security_camera_in_parking_garage.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en -- Lewis Clarke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiverton_,_CCTV_Camera_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7103690.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Ad-tech is fascist tech; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/i...
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A king on a sumptuous, much elaborated throne; in one hand he holds a sceptre of office, in the other, the leashes for two fierce stone dogs that guard the throne. The king's head has been replaced with a character who was used as the basis for MAD Magazine's Alfred E Neumann. The new head sports a conical dunce cap. Behind the king is a large group of 1960s business men, seated and standing, in conservative suits. The background is the view from the 80th floor of World Trade Center 3. The floor has been carpeted in sumptuous tabriz from the Ottoman court. Image: Aude (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:80th_floor_of_3_World_Trade_Center_-_OHNY.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a...
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I‘m ecstatic to find out that #CoryDoctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net has joined Bluesky (the service) and left That Hellsite.
He announced the move and explained why he waited (spoiler: 🔥🥣🐸) in his #Pluralistic article, below.
Welcome, Cory! So happy! 😆
pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/e...
An anatomical drawing of a cross-section of a man's head. The eyeball has been replaced by an RSS logo. To the left of the face is a "code waterfall" effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movie. To the right are clouds of grey roiling clouds, infiltrating the brain as well.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The web is bearable with RSS; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/r...
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Elon Musk wielding a flamethrower; he is roasting the snout of a giant frog Image: Gage Skidmore (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elon_Musk_(54350004945)_(cropped).jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en -- Brian Gratwicke (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lithobates_pipiens.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Blowtorching the frog; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/e...
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This is a very carefully chosen phrase that the Trump administration is publishing. It denies the reality of the “e pluribus” part of our country. There are many stories, many cultures, and many languages proudly in America. It’s fascist propaganda, folks. #fascism #fucktrump #pluralistic #diversity
The latest #Pluralistic post by Cory Doctorow is about a very smart #OpenHardware approach: the #Baochip. I know very little about hardware manufacturing, but this looks really cool and feasible.
Go read it at: pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/q...
The #SyrianDemocraticCouncil was founded on #ThisDayInHistory in 2015. Having sat out the first stages of the #SyrianCivilWar, #Kurds of #Rojava got involved to create a better system. #SDC is the political arm of #SDF in #DAANES, working for a decentralized #pluralistic society.
After listening to #pluralistic read their book "The Lost Cause" whenever I get a newsletter from the Electronic Frontier Foundation I hear it in Cory Doctorow's voice.
#EFF
“they liked that he seemingly held the same “old-school #conservative views” as they did. But they also saw, in his ideological malleability, a chance to go further. Many ‘wanted to turn back the clock on #pluralistic #liberal-democracy & even on #modernity itself’” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
O artigo destaca a fatia de 30% que o Google abocanha dos apps da Play Store. O dev paga um aluguel perpétuo pelo "box" dentro da "galeria". OBS: Uber não paga essa taxa e a Epic Games ganhou (na justiça) o direito de seu jogo (Fortnite) ser instalado fora da Play Store.
Pelo que entendi, a […]
Gotta admit, it's frustrating to believe in #Pluralistic #Democracy in an Age of #Populism.
#PluralisticDemocracy
