Some good things to think about right here.

I’ve been trying to figure out how angry to be about this move from Amazon, and Doctorow’s thinking is helpful: Very angry. (I don’t own and would never own an Echo, but it still makes me mad).

I don’t think I’ve ever been more angry about the gig economy than when reading this post.

Some more reflection by Doctorow on Bluesky and Mastodon.

Like anyone who’s read Cory Doctorow’s Radicalized (now free to read here, and you should go read it), I’ve thought a lot recently about its central conceit of an online message board where people stiffed by insurance radicalize each other into gruesome acts of violence. The story is hard to read: It’s vicious in its implied critique of U.S. healthcare companies, but the people being radicalized are also ugly in their response to those companies’ callousness.

Some interesting reflections (and reasons to up one’s baseline existential terror) in here.

I appreciate these thoughts from Doctorow. I understand the excitement around Bluesky, I’m happy to follow people there, and I will likely lean into it more as a POSSE vector. That said, I still don’t know that it’s what I want the future of social media to look like.

RSS forever! I love RSS, I love Cory Doctorow, and I love this post.

Compelling metaphor.

I’ve only skimmed this, but I’m posting it as a reminder to myself that everything I said about Disney yesterday also applies to Apple, and that I need to find ways of extracting myself from their ecosystem, as hard as it may be.

I’ve been thinking recently that I need to reread Doctorow’s The Lost Cause (about beating back the climate catastrophe), so this blog post was welcome. Doctorow’s hopefulness—all while rejecting naïve optimism—is what I needed to read this morning.

Compelling essay about vain hopes for the future.

I’ve been waiting for Doctorow’s take on this, and it’s good. I’m an Apple user, but Doctorow’s criticisms all ring true to me.

Dammit, I literally just started following Motherboard again.

Fascinating post. Grateful for Doctorow’s honesty at his being scammed and interested in the idea that lowering quality of services through AI trains us to accept fraud.

Some interesting thoughts here from Doctorow. Makes me want to put more effort into OER.

I’ve wanted to read this book for a while, but Doctorow has really sold me on it.

I’m an Apple user, but that never stops me from agreeing with Doctorow’s critiques.

I haven’t been following this debate, but Doctorow and White’s points resonate with me.

I backed this before Kickstarter could even say “Hey, you’ve backed stuff from Doctorow in the past…”

Appreciate Doctorow’s detailed (and expert) perspectve here.

Appreciate Doctorow’s thinking here.

Interesting stuff from Doctorow. If I can, I want to work it into my data science textbook for next semester.

I have been furious with Intuit since ProPublica did their great reporting on this, but I’ve continued to use TurboTax because the system is broken. Very excited for this news, and I appreciate Doctorow’s passionnate take.

There is so much of both horrible and hopeful in this story. The way we’re normalizing surveillance is really worrying, and I’m glad some people are fighting back.

Why do we let inkjet printers get away with this nonsense?

Doctorow tackles the grossest parts of ed tech. It’s a great read.

Intellectual property can be a human rights issue.

Doctorow has some good thoughts on surveillance capitalism here.

Cory Doctorow has THOUGHTS about data. I may use this in my data science class this semester.