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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 6d ago

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 6d ago

"AI psychosis" is one of those terms that is incredibly useful and also almost certainly going to be deprecated in smart circles in short order because it is: a) useful; b) easily colloquialized to describe related phenomena; and c) adjacent to medical issues.There's a group of people who feel very strongly any metaphor that implicates human health is intrinsically stigmatizing and must be replaced with an awkward, lengthy phrase that no one can remember and only insiders understand.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Mar 09, 2026

Even if rich people were no more likely to believe stupid shit than you or me, it'd still be a problem. After all, I believe my share of stupid shit (and if you think that none of the shit you believe in is stupid, then I'm afraid we've just identified at least one kind of stupid shit you believe in).

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Mar 07, 2026

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Mar 07, 2026

Never let them tell you that enshittification was a mystery. Enshittification isn't downstream of the "iron laws of economics" or an unrealistic demand by "consumers" to get stuff for free.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Mar 05, 2026

A preview of tomorrow's blog collage illustration (Elon Musk lacks the executive function to boil a frog, instead he blowtorches it).

Frog and Musk's head from Wikimedia Commons. Background smoke from the Met's open access archive (19th c painting of Vesuvius). Flamethrower and body from the US Army (public domain).

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Mar 03, 2026

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Mar 03, 2026

The Supreme Court has just turned down a petition to hear an appeal in a case that held that AI works can't be copyrighted. By turning down the appeal, the Supreme Court took a massively consequential step to protect creative workers' interests:

https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Mar 02, 2026

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Mar 02, 2026

Everyone knows (or should that as fascinating as your dreams are to *you*, they're eye-glazingly dull to others. Perhaps you have a friend who will tolerate you recounting dreams at them (treasure those friends), but you should never, ever *presume* that other people want to hear about your dreams.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 28, 2026

One thing we know about the mass tech layoffs attributed to "AI" is that they follow a trend of mass tech layoffs that firms were formerly forced to admit were the result of their businesses contracting sharply after the lockdowns ended, when users didn't need nearly so many cloud services. By blaming the continuing layoffs on "AI," companies whose business continues to contract can tell investors that they are on the bleeding edge, not the contracting tail. 1/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 26, 2026

Hey #Ubuntu people, I've got a UI question.

When I mouse over to a small UI element (e.g. the "Add content warning" button in the Mastodon post composing form) and then move my hand minutely to left-click it, the cursor often jiggles off of the target. This also happens if I remove my hand from the trackpad, mouse or trackball preparatory to clicking.

Is there a UI setting or add-on that addresses this? It's driven me crazy for years and I can't be the only one.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 24, 2026

In her magnificent 2023 book *Doppelganger*, Naomi Klein describes the "mirror world" of right wing causes that are weird, conspiratorial versions of the actual things that leftists care about:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 23, 2026

The first time I met William Gibson - to interview him for the *Globe and Mail* on the release of 1999's *All Tomorrow's Parties* - there was one question I knew I wanted to ask him: "What happens to the counterculture in the era of instantaneous commodification?" https://craphound.com/nonfic/transcript.html -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/23/goodharts-lawbreaker/#no-metrics-no-targets 1/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 22, 2026

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 19, 2026

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 19, 2026

Bad news: tonight's terrible snowstorm means that I'm not giving my Tanner Talk at the University of Utah in person.

Good news: the (previously) sold out talk is going to be on Zoom, which means anyone can attend! We're starting in 30 minutes at 19h Mountain/18h Pacific/21h Eastern, and it's open to all!

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@mattblaze@federate.social I have a cousin who has gang-stalking delusion and has discovered forums where they all egg each other on. Her life was bad before this, now it's a wreck.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 17, 2026

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 17, 2026

"Minimum wage" is one of those odd concepts that *seems* to have an intuitive definition, but the harder you think about it, the more complicated it gets. For example, if you want to work, but can't find a job, then the minimum wage you'll get is zero:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200625043843/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-06-24/forget-ubi-says-an-economist-its-time-for-universal-basic-jobs

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 10, 2026

America's descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and demoralizing by the Democrats' total failure to rise to the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADW3ZRZLVI

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#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 9. Do you subscribe to 'show, don't tell?' Why, or why not? Yes and no. I write SF/F, traditionally a genre VERY heavy on tell. It went through a long-overdue corrective in the

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Feb 09, 2026

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116040155022568663 @cstross@wandering.shop My hymn to stfnal exposition: https://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit/my-favorite-bit-cory-doctorow-talks-about-the-bezzle/

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#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 9. Do you subscribe to 'show, don't tell?' Why, or why not? Yes and no. I write SF/F, traditionally a genre VERY heavy on tell. It went through a long-overdue corrective in the 1980s/90s that coincided with cyberpunk and the mainstream of SF tropes in visual media, making lengthy descriptions less necessary to reader comprehension, so I used "show don't tell" a lot, until I realized … Entertaining infodumps are an art form in their own right! (And one unique to SF.)

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jan 29, 2026

We wouldn't tolerate secrecy in the characteristics of the alloys in those joists, or even the wires carrying electricity through the walls. We should not tolerate secrecy in how our digital infrastructure works, either. After all, a modern building is just a fancy casemod for a bunch of computers. Take all the computers out of a hospital and it becomes a morgue. There's no secret medical science, and there should be no secret medical code, either. 77/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jan 28, 2026

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jan 17, 2026

Every time the HBO Max app asks me "How are you enjoying the app?" I give it bottom marks. This pops up a dialog that says, "Please tell us how we can improve." I then type, "Fuck David Zaslav with a rusty chainsaw" and click "Submit." #SmallPleasures

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jan 13, 2026

Bruce Sterling going very, very hard (posts 117-121): https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page05.html#post116 A current political issue that seems under-recognized to me is how much Trump and his enablers have destroyed the American Establishment and the Republican Party. 1/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jan 12, 2026

Well, here's a new accursed UI pattern. When you try to book a flight on Chase rewards and key in the exact code for the airport you want to go to, it suggests a bunch of non-matching airports, and puts the exact match like 10 options down.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jan 06, 2026

Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code but that means it's producing 10,000 more liabilities. AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes 1/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Dec 31, 2025

Apparently, there is a sticker version, too. #39c3 ETA: https://punx.social/

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Dec 22, 2025

Hey folks - after seven months of chasing, I've run out of options in trying to resolve a customer service issue with #BritishAirways, and I've decided to really escalate it. Does anyone out there know #SeanDoyle, CEO of BA, and if so, could you make an introduction? Thank you!

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr Are you settled in OK? Do you need any local assistance? (I'm not right near IAD, but I can be of any help, LMK)

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@mattblaze@federate.social thank you - they eventually flew us back to Philly. Just waiting for bags here. I appreciate it.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr OK! Stuck for the night in Philly, I guess? I suggest a center city hotel if you can find one at a reasonable rate rather than an airport hotel. The airport train is frequent and

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Nov 10, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social I'm staying at the airport and billing it to travel insurance

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Nov 10, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social thank you - they eventually flew us back to Philly. Just waiting for bags here. I appreciate it.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Sep 03, 2025

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jul 18, 2024

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jan 25, 2024

#Lifehacking is in pretty bad odor these days, and with good reason: a once-useful catch-all for describing how to make things easier has become a pit of #ProductivityPorn, grifter hustling, and anodyne advice wreathed in superlatives and transformed into SEO-compliant listicles.

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