* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (Pre-order: pluralistic.net/kickstarter) Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
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Hey look at this * Un internet post americano, resistente a la mierdificación supernovainterna.substack.com/p/traducir-s... * Best sketches from SNL season 51 a.wholelottanothing.org/best-sketche... * Revenge of The Business Idiot www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-... 4/
* London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... * Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention? www.normaltech.ai/p/do-ai-risk... 5/
Hey look at this * Hating AI is good, actually www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-... * The Labour Party’s Main Problem Isn’t Losing Voters to Reform jacobin.com/2026/05/uk-e... * Flipper One — we need your help blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-... 4/
There's a whole community of people who have stopped listening to music created by people in favor of made-to-order slop, exulting in a world of music without musicians: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... 14/
Workers aren't the only typical early adopters who find AI lacking. As a group, teenagers and young adults *hate* AI: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s... 36/
In other words, the story of the web at work was the *opposite* of the story of *AI* at work. Today, you can't turn around without reading a story about bosses who are threatening to fire workers if they don't increase their AI usage: www.businessinsider.com/boss-track-a... 32/
Virtually *every* major company now has a program to force workers into using AI: www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/a... 33/
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: AI and a world without migrants; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/05/27/u... #Pluralistic 1/
AI has democratized solipsism, a privilege that was once the exclusive purview of billionaires, whose belief that most other people weren't fully *real* let them inflict the kind of mass pain on millions that is a prerequisite for amassing a truly vast fortune: pluralistic.net…
Recent appearances (cont'd): * Enshittification (99% Invisible) 99percentinvisible.org/episode/666-... * AI: The Ultimate Disruptor, with Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio (CBC Ideas) www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... 27/
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