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Cory Doctorow
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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Vibe-coding is risky mainly when the code is written for other people to use, not for the author's own use.
I am highly skeptical of vibe-coding in the sense of writing code for other people to use.
pluralistic.netSaid 25 Sept 2026This on korrents
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AI systems built on statistical inference cannot form intent, because they have nothing with which to form it.
Anyone who understands how the theory-free statistical inference systems we call "AI" (at this time) work will understand that they are systems that cannot form intent, that have nothing to form intent with
pluralistic.netSaid 21 Sept 2026This on korrents
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From one piece Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) 3 beliefs · pluralistic.net
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Slop's not merely annoying or time-wasting: it's a betrayal of the love and care that goes into writing and maintaining code for others.
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Being the domain expert on your own needs doesn't make you the expert on how to address those needs.Their words
while you are the domain expert on your needs, that doesn't mean you're the domain expert on how to address those needs.
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Vibe-coding is risky mainly when the code is written for other people to use, not for the author's own use.Their words
I am highly skeptical of vibe-coding in the sense of writing code for other people to use.
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From one piece Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) 3 beliefs · pluralistic.net
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Chatbots do not need to be treated as people to be valuable; being an impressive mathematical system is enough.Their words
Chatbots are marvels of mathematics, and that is enough. They don't need to be people.
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net
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when we interact with an AI, we hallucinate the person on the other side of the interaction.
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net
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AI systems built on statistical inference cannot form intent, because they have nothing with which to form it.Their words
Anyone who understands how the theory-free statistical inference systems we call "AI" (at this time) work will understand that they are systems that cannot form intent, that have nothing to form intent with
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026)pluralistic.net
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From one piece Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026) 3 beliefs · pluralistic.net
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But - by definition - it can't contain any of our future surprises, because it's just trained on the things we already know, and if we knew about something, it wouldn't be a surprise anymore.
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Being able to statistically predict what someone will say does not mean you understand them.Their words
the fact that you can use a statistical lookup table to predict what words someone is going to say doesn't mean you understand them
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Naive, "theory-free" statistical extrapolation (the method that LLMs rely on) has hard limits.
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Music Copyright, Creativity, and CultureTheir words
Jenkins understands it, though. I've been reading, writing, and debating about this stuff since the late 1990s, and I learned something new on every page of this delightful book.
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The Open Copyright CasebookTheir words
Jenkins' flair for legal communications carries over to her scholarly work, of course, which is why her Open Copyright Casebook is a standard text for American law schools:
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THEFT! A History of MusicTheir words
These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:) https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccopyright/ Interspersed with these histories and analysis are lengthy, extremely on-point excerpts from THEFT!
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Kill StickyTheir words
I've been running gala8y's version for a year now with no problems, and I recommend it as your second line of dickover defense (after Reader Mode)
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Everybody's PerfectTheir words
And now it's Everybody's Perfect, a book that pretty much defines what it means for one text to be "in dialog" with another text. In this case, it's Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning magnum opus that tells not just the story of the Renaissance, but the story of the story, all the different ways the Renaissance has been used, abused, revised and recovered, starting with the Renaissance itself. It's a book that will make you rethink everything you know about European history, about the world today, and about the very idea of history itself
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ObstetrixTheir words
All told, this is a read-in-one-sitting thriller that does as much to illuminate the workings and dynamics of patriarchy and religion as any gender studies class. It's peak Kritzer (so far), and that's saying something.
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Here Where We Live Is Our CountryTheir words
Crabapple's response to this burgeoning movement is this book, a massive, heroic, brilliant, and pitiless history of the Bund that proposes its own answer to "the Jewish question."
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CannonTheir words
The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.
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Inventing the RenaissanceTheir words
Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, and a leading historian of the Renaissance, and last year, she published her magnum opus, Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning book about so much more than history
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Privacy's DefenderTheir words
This book is a beautiful capstone to a brilliant career that defined the fight for cyber rights, and a deep, accessible dive into the defining tech and human rights battles of this century.
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Beliefs
Korrents What they believe 24 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
Each is a — compiled by korrents.com, not by them: the one-line wordings are korrents', the quotes are theirs.
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Vibe-coding is risky mainly when the code is written for other people to use, not for the author's own use.
I am highly skeptical of vibe-coding in the sense of writing code for other people to use.
Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) Said 25 Sept 2026
Being the domain expert on your own needs doesn't make you the expert on how to address those needs.
while you are the domain expert on your needs, that doesn't mean you're the domain expert on how to address those needs.
Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) Said 25 Sept 2026
Low-quality AI-generated code contributions betray the care that goes into writing and maintaining software for others.
Slop's not merely annoying or time-wasting: it's a betrayal of the love and care that goes into writing and maintaining code for others.
Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) Said 25 Sept 2026
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AI systems built on statistical inference cannot form intent, because they have nothing with which to form it.
Anyone who understands how the theory-free statistical inference systems we call "AI" (at this time) work will understand that they are systems that cannot form intent, that have nothing to form intent with
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Said 21 Sept 2026
When someone interacts with a chatbot, they hallucinate the presence of a person on the other side of the conversation.
when we interact with an AI, we hallucinate the person on the other side of the interaction.
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Said 21 Sept 2026
Chatbots do not need to be treated as people to be valuable; being an impressive mathematical system is enough.
Chatbots are marvels of mathematics, and that is enough. They don't need to be people.
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) Said 21 Sept 2026
The statistical extrapolation method LLMs rely on has hard limits.
Naive, "theory-free" statistical extrapolation (the method that LLMs rely on) has hard limits.
Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026) Said 18 Sept 2026
Being able to statistically predict what someone will say does not mean you understand them.
the fact that you can use a statistical lookup table to predict what words someone is going to say doesn't mean you understand them
Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026) Said 18 Sept 2026
A system trained only on what is already known cannot produce genuine surprises, because a known thing stops being a surprise.
But - by definition - it can't contain any of our future surprises, because it's just trained on the things we already know, and if we knew about something, it wouldn't be a surprise anymore.
Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026) Said 18 Sept 2026
Platform decay is the result of specific decisions by identifiable people rather than impersonal historical forces, which is precisely what makes it reversible.
I think that the enshittification framework goes a long way to explaining it, moving us out of the mysterious realm of the 'great forces of history,' and into the material world of specific decisions made by named people – decisions we can reverse and people whose addresses and pitchfork sizes we can learn.
My McLuhan lecture on enshittification Said 30 Jan 2024
People stay on a platform they have come to dislike because leaving requires everyone they care about to agree to leave at the same time.
In theory, you could have all just left for somewhere else; in practice, you were hamstrung by the collective action problem.
My McLuhan lecture on enshittification Said 30 Jan 2024
A monopolist that can no longer grow by winning new users can only grow by making its product worse for the users it already has.
The only way for Google Search to grow is to make itself worse.
Microincentives and Enshittification Said 28 Jul 2023
Ranking first in a search has become near enough to being true, which is why search and spam are permanently at war.
Google’s the first — and often the last — place we go to for answers, so snagging top billing in a Google search results page is, approximately speaking, equivalent to being “true.”
Microincentives and Enshittification Said 28 Jul 2023
Technology bosses are ordinary monopolists rather than evil geniuses, and crediting them with having hacked our dopamine loops flatters them.
tech barons are ordinary mediocrities, no better and no worse than the monopolists that preceded them, and any differences come down to affordances in technology and regulation, not an especial wicked brilliance.
Twiddler Said 19 Feb 2023
What makes a digital platform more abusive than a physical business is the speed at which it can change the rules, which is what hides the change.
A platform operator can effortlessly change the distribution of surpluses in an instant, while suppliers and customers have to engage in minute, time-consuming and unreliable Platform Kremlinology just to detect these changes, much less understand them.
Twiddler Said 19 Feb 2023
The problem is not that intermediaries exist, but how much power the internet hands them over the people on either side of them.
The problem isn’t the existence of intermediaries — it’s how much power the internet gives to intermediaries.
Twiddler Said 19 Feb 2023
For an online creator the platform is a boss who fines you for breaking rules he refuses to explain, precisely so that you cannot learn to avoid them.
For an online creator, the platform is a boss who docks every paycheck and tells you that you’re being punished for breaking rules that your boss refuses to explain, lest you figure out how to violate them without him noticing.
Twiddler Said 19 Feb 2023
Platforms die in a three-stage cycle: first they are good to users, then they abuse users on behalf of business customers, then they abuse everyone to claw the value back for themselves.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
Tiktok's enshittification Said 21 Jan 2023
There is no attention economy: attention cannot serve as money, so a platform must always convert it into cash at somebody's expense.
"Monetize" is a terrible word that tacitly admits that there is no such thing as an "Attention Economy." You can't use attention as a medium of exchange.
Tiktok's enshittification Said 21 Jan 2023
The end-to-end principle -- that a willing speaker's message reaches the willing listeners who asked for it -- is dead at the service level of today's internet.
The end-to-end principle is dead at the service level today.
Tiktok's enshittification Said 21 Jan 2023
Closing off interoperability is how a platform locks people in, and that lock-in is what lets the service be made worse without losing them.
The temptation to enshittify is magnified by the blocks on interoperability: when Twitter bans interoperable clients, nerfs its APIs, and periodically terrorizes its users by suspending them for including their Mastodon handles in their bios, it makes it harder to leave Twitter, and thus increases the amount of enshittification users can be force-fed without risking their departure.
Tiktok's enshittification Said 21 Jan 2023
Policy should secure people's freedom to leave a platform while keeping their community, their purchases and their data, rather than try to keep dying platforms alive.
And policymakers should focus on freedom of exit – the right to leave a sinking platform while continuing to stay connected to the communities that you left behind, enjoying the media and apps you bought, and preserving the data you created
Tiktok's enshittification Said 21 Jan 2023
A platform hands out free attention to creators only until they are committed to it, and then withdraws it and sells what they built.
Tiktok is only going to funnel free attention to the people it wants to entrap until they are entrapped, then it will withdraw that attention and begin to monetize it.
Tiktok's enshittification Said 21 Jan 2023
A dominant platform is more fragile than it looks, because pushing users far enough makes even the locked-in ones leave.
An enshittification strategy only succeeds if it is pursued in measured amounts. Even the most locked-in user eventually reaches a breaking-point and walks away, or gets pushed.
Tiktok's enshittification Said 21 Jan 2023
Beliefs others hold too
Closing off interoperability is how a platform locks people in, and that lock-in is what lets the service be made worse without losing them. 2 hold this
The temptation to enshittify is magnified by the blocks on interoperability: when Twitter bans interoperable clients, nerfs its APIs, and periodically terrorizes its users by suspending them for including their Mastodon handles in their bios, it makes it harder to leave Twitter, and thus increases the amount of enshittification users can be force-fed without risking their departure.
Tiktok's enshittification Said 21 Jan 2023
A dominant platform is more fragile than it looks, because pushing users far enough makes even the locked-in ones leave. 2 hold this
An enshittification strategy only succeeds if it is pursued in measured amounts. Even the most locked-in user eventually reaches a breaking-point and walks away, or gets pushed.
Tiktok's enshittification Said 21 Jan 2023
What is a korrent?
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at korrents.com.
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said. The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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Liked THEFT! A History of Music
These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:) https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccopyright/ Interspersed with these histories and analysis are lengthy, extremely on-point excerpts from THEFT!
pluralistic.net 17 Aug 2026
Liked The Open Copyright Casebook
Jenkins' flair for legal communications carries over to her scholarly work, of course, which is why her Open Copyright Casebook is a standard text for American law schools:
pluralistic.net 17 Aug 2026
Loved Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture
Jenkins understands it, though. I've been reading, writing, and debating about this stuff since the late 1990s, and I learned something new on every page of this delightful book.
pluralistic.net 17 Aug 2026
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Recommends Kill Sticky
I've been running gala8y's version for a year now with no problems, and I recommend it as your second line of dickover defense (after Reader Mode)
pluralistic.net 21 Jul 2026
Loved Everybody's Perfect
And now it's Everybody's Perfect, a book that pretty much defines what it means for one text to be "in dialog" with another text. In this case, it's Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning magnum opus that tells not just the story of the Renaissance, but the story of the story, all the different ways the Renaissance has been used, abused, revised and recovered, starting with the Renaissance itself. It's a book that will make you rethink everything you know about European history, about the world today, and about the very idea of history itself
pluralistic.net 30 Jun 2026
Loved Obstetrix
All told, this is a read-in-one-sitting thriller that does as much to illuminate the workings and dynamics of patriarchy and religion as any gender studies class. It's peak Kritzer (so far), and that's saying something.
pluralistic.net 9 Jun 2026
Loved Here Where We Live Is Our Country
Crabapple's response to this burgeoning movement is this book, a massive, heroic, brilliant, and pitiless history of the Bund that proposes its own answer to "the Jewish question."
pluralistic.net 1 Jun 2026
Loved Cannon
The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.
pluralistic.net 8 May 2026
Loved Inventing the Renaissance
Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, and a leading historian of the Renaissance, and last year, she published her magnum opus, Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning book about so much more than history
pluralistic.net 25 Apr 2026
Loved Privacy's Defender
This book is a beautiful capstone to a brilliant career that defined the fight for cyber rights, and a deep, accessible dive into the defining tech and human rights battles of this century.
pluralistic.net 9 Apr 2026
Loved Hospital at the End of the World
Hospital at the End of the World is Key's first novel, and it's terrific.
pluralistic.net 4 Feb 2026
Loved The Universe Box
This is what it means to read a short story collection from an absolute master at the absolute peak of his powers. He can slide you frictionlessly between Icelandic troll tragedies to lethal drone-leopard romantic agonies to battles of the gods and the cigar box that has the universe inside of it. All with the lyricism of Bradbury, the madcap wit of Sturgeon, the unrelenting weirdness of Dick, the heart of Tiptree and the precision of Chiang.
pluralistic.net 3 Feb 2026
Loved Letters From an Imaginary Country
Theodora Goss's latest book of short stories is 'Letters From an Imaginary Country,' and it manages to be one of the most voraciously, delightfully readable books I've ever read and it's one of the most writerly books, too. What a treat!
pluralistic.net 11 Nov 2025
Loved Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works
In Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works, legendary cypherpunk Perry Metzger teams up with Penelope Spector and illustrator Jerel Dye for a tour-de-force young adult comic book that uses hilarious steampunk dinosaurs to demystify the most foundational building-blocks of computers. It's astounding
pluralistic.net 5 Nov 2025
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Loved 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off
Raymond Biesinger's new book 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off is a masterclass in how creative workers can transform the endless, low-grade seething about the endless ripoffs of the industry into something productive and even profound
pluralistic.net 28 Oct 2025
Loved Fever Beach
It's screamingly funny, devilishly inventive, and deeply, profoundly satisfying. With Fever Beach, Hiaasen makes a compelling case for Florida as the perfect microcosm of the terrifying state of America, and an even more compelling case for his position as its supreme storyteller.
pluralistic.net 21 Oct 2025
Loved The Weight
The Weight is Mellia Mendes's award-winning webcomic, now collected in a massive, beautifully made graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly. It will tear your heart out, it will send you to a dreamy world of pastoral utopianism, then it will tear your heart out.
pluralistic.net 21 Aug 2025
Loved Lessons in Magic and Disaster
Charlie Jane Anders' Lessons in Magic and Disaster drops today: it's a novel about queer academia, the wonder of thinking very hard about very old books, and the terror and joy of ambiguous magic. It's my kind of novel!
pluralistic.net 19 Aug 2025
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- Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) 3 Oct 2026 Today's links Economic probabilities for our grandchildren: If only data centers would stop hogging all the copper. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIAA v P2P; Infoseek's anti-terror brain-sc…
- Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) 1 Oct 2026 Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hack…
- Pluralistic: Lindsay Owens's "Gouged" (29 Sep 2026) 29 Sept 2026 Today's links Lindsay Owens's "Gouged": The end of a fair price and what that means for your wallet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Doonesbury on 9/11; Suspicious Looking Device; Elephant-sh…
- Pluralistic: Priceful (28 Sep 2026) 28 Sept 2026 Today's links Priceful: So worthless we can tell you what it's worth. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Nasdaq allows post-9/11 penny stocks; USAF can shoot down civilian aircraft; TSA bans cal…
- Pluralistic: Itch scratching (25 Sep 2026) 25 Sept 2026 Today's links Itch scratching: Love, care and self-actualization. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 9/11 x Viridians; Announcing Wikipedia; Infinite Copyright Mickey; Floppy shoulder bag; Wells…
- Pluralistic: Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs (22 Sep 2026) 22 Sept 2026 Today's links Bonta sold us out to Trump's oligarchs: A "settlement" that promises less than nothing. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Warren on taxing the rich and class warfare; Psychology v…
- Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) 21 Sept 2026 Today's links The Claude Delusion: What if we're the ones having hallucinations? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 9/11 v sex; 9/11 v flags; US customs v diplomatic Vegemite; CIA torture surviv…
- Pluralistic: Textured (18 Sep 2026) 18 Sept 2026 Today's links Textured: The surprises are what matter. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Mr Dressup; Oligarch sucker-punch; ICC v CEOs. Upcoming appearances: Berkeley, Edmonton, Boston, Sou…
- Pluralistic: On the sincerity of AI bosses (17 Sep 2026) 17 Sept 2026 Today's links On the sincerity of AI bosses: Fascism is always an incoherent bundle. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 9/11 v spam; PalmOS x WTC collapse; Wifi x WTC rubble; Berlusconi sex ring…
- Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) 16 Sept 2026 Today's links How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses: If you can't impose switching costs, just eliminate the competition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flash Worms; This Film is Not Yet R…
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