Pluralistic: Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
How the internet flips elections and alters our thoughts | Aeon Essays
The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do
There's Just Too Many Damn Elites
And not enough high-status cushy jobs to go around
American Democracy Wasn’t Designed for This
Can our 18th-century institutions survive 21st-century technology?
Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.
The data center revolt is a symptom of our political failure on AI.
AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared
Talk about backpedaling.
Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
Nearly 70% of Americans Play Video Games for at Least an Hour Each Week, New Report Finds
Two-thirds of Americans play an hour or more of video games per week, according to a new report published Wednesday by the ESA.
Kevin O’Leary’s Two Data Centres Are So Big They (Almost) Defy Comprehension | The Walrus
Making sense of the very large Wonder Valley project in Alberta and the even bigger Stratos plan in Utah
The US Exports Intelligence - Marginal REVOLUTION
Most Americans work in the service sector so it’s not surprising that most export-related jobs are in the service sector (The U.S. exports about $2.2 trillion of goods and $1.2 trillion of services, but services are more labor intensive than manufacturing so they support more export jobs per dollar.) Richard Baldwin writes: In 2022, US […]
Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Business Ought Never Be Politics
The country is for people.
The Sovereign Individual Was the Blueprint
The tech right's ideology, explained.
A Fascism Older Than Fascism
The true enemy within
Towards a More Perfect Union
Communists to my left, fascists to my right, I shall take the middle road.
The Anti-Imperialism of Fools
The enemies to your left
Cheap money concentrates wealth
Dougald Lamont: Instead of addressing the economic crisis of the pandemic, monetary stimulus made it worse. It has contributed to a global affordability crisis in housing, a private insolvency cris…
The Great Depopulation
Why is the birth rate declining in every country on Earth?
The War on Terror
Weapons of mass deception
The Conspiracy Is the Cover Story
The truth is right in front of your eyes
The 1953 Coup Never Ended
But the people now see.
The Shining City Is the Open City
A contrast
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
Not even Jesus Christ
Pluralistic: No honor among (ad-tech) thieves (25 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn’t like the internet bubble (26 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
It does as it pleases and continually destroys
Sean T. Collins on Godzilla and America
“trust is flickering” – Harold Jarche