Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026)
Today's links Model collapse: Living in a world that's trained on itself. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Wired v Dutch hackers; NYT v DMCA; Hair gel…
Pluralistic: Capital formation (14 Aug 2026)
Today's links Capital formation: Going legit means going mainstream. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: London Copyfighters x Speaker's Corner; TSA v…
Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026)
Today's links Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone's gonna fleece these rubes, why not me? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DeCSS; Warhol Worm; Camgirls…
Pluralistic: The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026)
Today's links The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction: The only way to win is not to play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence:…
Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026)
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. Hey…
Pluralistic: Post-political (09 Jul 2026)
Today's links Post-political: What a "leftist" is. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT x OSCON; Parental spyware; "Resurrection Man"; Brexit do-over…
Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)
Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth…
Pluralistic: Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026)
Today's links Apple's robo-repo: Privatizing the risk premium, socializing its costs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Printed batteries; Monopoly…
Pluralistic: Jailbreaking isn't theft (25 Jun 2026)
Today's links Jailbreaking isn't theft: It wasn't progress when they did it, it's not piracy when we do it back to them. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object…
Pluralistic: Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026)
Today's links Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global: The good globalism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Fonz thumps x Linux; CBC v DRM;…
Pluralistic: California's privacy obstacle course (23 Jul 2026)
Today's links California's privacy obstacle course: Malice or incompetence (why not both?). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Continuous partial…
Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026)
Today's links Eternal Sloptember: Mark Zuckerberg and the fantasy of social media without socializing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Delany x The…
Pluralistic: Dealing with dickovers (21 Jul 2026) dickovers
Today's links Dealing with dickovers: The web is an open platform, and that matters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Broadcast's bad week; Congress v…
Pluralistic: Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026)
Today's links Google is a scammer's paradise: The internet's absentee landlord. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS; EZ…
Pluralistic: Discernment (28 Jul 2026)
Today's links Discernment: How can you fact-check AI when you're asking it to teach you something you don't understand? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence:…
Pluralistic: CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code (03 Jul 2026)
Today's links CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code: With great abstraction comes great power comes great responsibility comes great loss of fidelity. Hey look at…
Pluralistic: Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? (13 Jul 2026)
Today's links Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? Why sell picks and shovels if you've already struck gold? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.…
Pluralistic: Trump's America can't even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026)
Today's links Trump's America can't even win a rigged game: America has created a post-American world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Fagin"; Scott…
Pluralistic: "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy (10 Jul 2026)
Today's links "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy: When we were robots in Egypt… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Awkward questions for the…
Pluralistic: The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (02 Jul 2026)
Today's links The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work": Sometimes, "I got it working" is fine, but sometimes it isn't. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.…
Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026)
Today's links Gerontocracy's failure mode: Where are the designated survivors? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT v MP3; UK industry v schoolkids;…
Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026)
Today's links Deranged billionaires and their syndromes: The Mad Kings do love a syllogism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: PoGo v binding arbitration;…
Pluralistic: Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026)
Today's links Better to beg forgiveness: Don't ring the doorbell at the house of no unless you absolutely must. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP…
Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026)
Today's links Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid: First they came for the VPNs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Darwin's…
Pluralistic: How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump) (27 Jul 2026)
Today's links How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump): Grant me the courage to change the things I can. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Chilling…
Pluralistic: How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026)
Today's links How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech: Their common enemies are Trump and his tech giants. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object…
Pluralistic: Workplace "flexibility" isn't (11 Jul 2026)
Today's links Workplace "flexibility" isn't: What the gig economy calls flexibility is just risk-shifting. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Alanya to…
Pluralistic: Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect" (30 Jun 2026)
Today's links Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect": A mystical tour-de-force that makes you feel like your mundane life until this point has all been a boring dream. Hey look at…
Pluralistic: Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026)
Today's links Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search: We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object…
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x…
Pluralistic: Post-American compute for a post-American Internet (04 Aug 2026)
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. Hey look at…
Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026)
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. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object…
Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026)
Today's links Digital sewer socialism: Mamdani's Public Interest Technologists are what DOGE should have been. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Robot…
Pluralistic: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026)
Today's links Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m…
Pluralistic: Dualism (03 Aug 2026)
Today's links Dualism: Why not both? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: UK's Great Firewall falls; Mint the coins; Virtual pets v DRM; Getty copyfrauds…