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Michigan residents voted down a $16 billion Stargate AI data center, then construction began anyway
Unsurprisingly, the few thousand residents of the small community of Saline Township in Washtenaw County, Michigan, were worried about OpenAI and Oracle's massive new $16 billion Stargate...
7 Insights from the 20th Century’s Most Prescient Dystopian Tale
The 1909 story that eerily predicted our tech-mediated lives
Pluralistic: Bubbles are REALLY evil (07 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The Secret to Understanding AI
“Imagine the tech without the tech companies.”
Into the gap
It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.
Greed Without Limits: Marx's Capital and the Univrs Cloud Commons — Sepah
From historical materialism to mycelial economics — a philosopher-builder synthesis. Marx's diagnosis has hardened into evidentiary fact: concentration at the 0.01%, ecological overshoot, and the exhaustion of legitimating institutions. The constructive question is no longer whether Marx was right but what builds next. We position the Univrs Cloud Commons as one answer.
Pluralistic: Demand destruction vs fuel-superseding infrastructure (04 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
How AI Swarms Are Disrupting Democracy
Every day, millions of pieces of fake content are produced. Videos, audio clips, posts, articles, generated by artificial intelligence, distributed at
The Free World Is Leaving Trump Behind
We dropped the torch. They picked it up.
Getting Gooier
How AI is transforming humans
How AI Reverses the Political Logic of the Internet
AI governance is ultimately a question of democracy itself, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
Pluralistic: How not to ban surveillance pricing (30 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Notable links: May 1, 2026
AI and society; and sustaining innovation has failed us.
Sunlings
There is no liquid soap that can outperform good bar soap at cleaning a stinky, hairy armpit. Which is why I hate that hotels have replaced bars of soap with bottles of "body wash" or wha…
AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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When Leaders Should Resign
A necessary corrective to a very sick public culture and recovery of a lost virtue.
Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose
In 1986, a corporation that made women's lingerie bought every backpack brand you've ever trusted.
Pluralistic: The enshittification multiverse (27 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Ada Palmer’s “Inventing the Renaissance” (25 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: A free, open visual identity for enshittification (24 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The (other) problem with automatic conversion of free software to proprietary software (23 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: It’s not a crime if we do it (to nurses) with an app (22 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s “Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed” (21 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Websites break California privacy law at ‘industrial scale,’ survey finds – The Markup
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.
Pluralistic: Comrade Trump (20 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The Plain, the Line, & the Gap: Russia’s Western Front
Geopolitics is the analysis of geographic influences on power relationships in international relations, a succinct enough sentence for one of the primary factors affecting how states interact with …