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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 6d ago

Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with technology. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. -- 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/2026/08/08/find-yourself-a-city/#to-hack-in 1/

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Alberto Cottica @alberto_cottica@mastodon.green · 6d ago

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Mamdani 's hackers: New York City's Public Interest Technology initiative encodes a vision of technology as an enabler for ordinary people. ... and 3,000 super-skilled techies applied for 35 jobs, though the paycheck is not what it would be in Big Tech and there's no stock options, because most people want their work to be meaningful. Getting people to click on ads is not meaningful. https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/08/find-yourself-a-city/#to-hack-in h/t @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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kiq / キク @kiq@fedibird.com · Jul 25, 2026

“0:23:37 – Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Removed – Morrissey - Pregnant For The Last Time #TOTP #To... / “Top of the Pops - 25th July 1991” (1 user) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeaSSL9JmUE

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jul 23, 2026

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Getting rid of data brokers wouldn't solve *all* our problems, but it sure would go a long way to solving *many* of them. Rather than legally requiring platforms to spy on kids (to exclude them from being targeted by platforms' algorithms), we could prohibit platforms from spying on *anyone*, including kids, meaning kids couldn't be identified (much less targeted) by algorithms or ads: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/#to-save-it 3/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jul 10, 2026

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The "magic"? A human being stuck in AI Omelas, tormented by an algorithm that sets an inhuman pace, demands inhuman perfection, and metes out pitiless punishments for any misstep - or perceived misstep - without appeal or explanation. So often, "AI" stands for "Absent Indians": low-waged call-center workers pretending to be robots: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain 6/

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Martin Pigeon @Martin_Pigeon@mamot.fr · Jun 23, 2026

"Age verification" means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally illegal to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids…from them!" Bravo, again, to @pluralistic@mamot.fr for his talent with words 🙌 https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/#to-save-it

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Marshall Mayer @AuthenticPhoto@mastodon.social · Jun 23, 2026

"Age verification" means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally *illegal* to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids…from them! — @pluralistic@mamot.fr from https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/#to-save-it

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jun 23, 2026

The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with people citing small, ambiguous studies as iron-clad evidence that kids are being destroyed by the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ype6c6DdHQY -- 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/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/#to-save-it 1/

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hollow-one @hollowone@mas.erb.pw · Feb 11, 2026

the hardest part of AI replacing simple tasks done by programmers, from a programmer who loved these tasks as a perspective is... that they still can be successful but accept the fact that they are IT now... which under normal circumstances is an insult for a smart software engineer. #ai #hard #nut #to #crack

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Karl @karl@infosec.exchange · Dec 14, 2025

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@mattblaze@federate.social #it's #useless #to #cry #over #splilled #milk

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