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Inside: Carneyism without Carney; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/30/rupture/

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/ba108c89-3fa3-4bc6-bf3b-76f21281ef28/today-s-threads-a-threadRSS for NodeSun, 31 May 2026 04:59:45 GMTSat, 30 May 2026 09:48:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Today's threads (a thread) on Sat, 30 May 2026 18:41:41 GMT]]>@pluralistic It's funny how Mark Carney's 2025 book "The Hinge: Time To Build An Even Better Canada" (ISBN 9780771024955) completely disappeared from publishing schedules, now seemingly pushed out into the 2030s ...

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From where I sit Canada absolutely is suffering from "Fetterman Syndrome".

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We would love to see the tax audits on these people.

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Canada: "two monopolists and a mining company in a trenchcoat" 🤣 🤣👏

Way to tell it like it is!! Brilliant column.

I've been becoming increasingly upset with the "bait and switch" trick that these dirt bags have pulled. My new Liberal MP now ignores my emails completely and has revealed herself to be a full on Climate change denier.

I hope this column gets picked up by the bigger news sites.

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* On Enshittification – and what can be done about it (Re:publica)
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* EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet (EFF, with Wendy Liu)
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* The “Enshittification” of Everything (Bioneers)
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* Enshittification (99% Invisible)
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* Artificial Intelligence: The Ultimate Disruptor, with Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio (CBC Ideas)
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* International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17
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* : An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6
https://franco.nd.edu/events/2026/10/06/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/

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* : TBA, Jun 23

* : The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Jonathan Coulton (The Strand), Jun 24
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* : The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with David Williams (Fitler Club/Philadelphia Citizen), Jun 25
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-book-event-tickets-1990110326559

* : The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Rick Perlstein (Exile in Bookville), Jun 26
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* SXSW , Jun 2
https://www.sxswlondon.com/session/how-big-tech-broke-the-internet-b3c4a901

* : Facing the Future (Woodneath Library Center), Jun 10
https://www.mymcpl.org/events/119655/facing-future-cory-doctorow

* : The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Brian Merchant (Skylight Books), Jun 19
https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-cory-doctorow-presents-reverse-centaurs-guide-life-after-ai-w-brian-merchant

* : The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI with Angie Coiro (Kepler's), Jun 21
https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/cory-doctorow-2026

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wikis.world/users/una_tantum/statuses/116662905799703970https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://wikis.world/users/una_tantum/statuses/116662905799703970Sat, 30 May 2026 09:51:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's threads (a thread) on Sat, 30 May 2026 09:50:50 GMT]]> AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/rancid-vibe-coding/#class-war

America is a scam https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/28/cheaters-ever-prosper/#caveat-america

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Study shows detailed, compromising inferences can be readily made with metadata https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1508081113

EFF fights order to remove public records documents detailing Seattle’s smart-meters https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/may/26/court-grants-temporary-restraining-order-forcing-r/

Probably https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/27/probably/

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Someone just snuck warrantless email access into the Senate’s secret intelligence bill https://web.archive.org/web/20160526201753/https://theintercept.com/2016/05/26/secret-text-in-senate-bill-would-give-fbi-warrantless-access-to-email-records/

Wells Fargo, who preyed on black borrowers, sponsors Black Lives Matter luncheon https://web.archive.org/web/20160527184755/https://theintercept.com/2016/05/27/wells-fargo-sponsorship-of-black-lives-matter-panel-draws-scorn/

Anonymous Analytics: self-proclaimed Anon “faction” that tanks companies through stock reports https://web.archive.org/web/20160527155031/https://news.softpedia.com/news/anonymous-hackers-turned-stock-analysts-are-targeting-us-chinese-corporations-504495.shtml

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US trade rep threatens Colombia’s peace process over legal plan to offer cheap leukemia meds https://web.archive.org/web/20160725174757/https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2016/05/26/bernie-sanders-novartis-patent/

Security researcher discovers glaring problem with patient data system, FBI stages armed dawn raid https://dailydot.com/politics/justin-shafer-fbi-raid

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Bernie Sanders introduces anti-pharma-patent bill, aims to replace drug monopolies with prizes https://web.archive.org/web/20110528053922/http://keionline.org/node/1147

Life at a brainwashing “school for troubled teens” https://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/comments/hk0xy/a_gay_teen_describes_her_experience_at_a_utah/

Facebook updates from people who don’t know The Onion is a humor site https://literallyunbelievable.tumblr.com/

Untangling the Web: the NSA’s supremely weird, florid guide to the Internet https://www.techdirt.com/2016/05/27/nsas-guide-to-internet-is-weirdest-thing-youll-read-today/

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