dan davies – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Skip to content Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. Menu Books About Forums Podcast Newsletter RSS Mastodon Bluesky Medium Tumblr Tag: dan davies Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026) ----------------------------- Top Sources: None -- Today's links Market participation is exhausting: No one wants to be the sucker at the table. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: EMI DRM v Brazil; "The Information"; Genome patenter v copyright troll (let them fight); Green investing isn't; Trump loves Big Tech; Kleptones' "24 Hours"; Lasermonks; Ransomware hospital; News co-ops; AI "art" sucks; Swisscom wifi is $838/24h; Millennials don't exist; Why Microsoft's chatbot turned Nazi; NYC's best dumpster-dived food; RIP Diana Wynne Jones; What really happened at the student protests in Trafalgar Square; Church-owned insurer has secret pedo priest files; Names that break databases; Reality-based communities; Hugo for websites; Cop cabs; Fake pediatrician group; Bring Your Own Bigwheeel; "How To Talk About Videogames." Upcoming appearances: Montreal, London, NYC, Berlin, Hay-on-Wye, London. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. Continue reading "Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 30, 2026March 30, 2026Categories UncategorizedTags adam smith, dan davies, domination games, economics, markets, neurodivergence, revealed preferences, theory of moral sentiments1 Comment on Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026) Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026) ----------------------------- Top Sources: None -- Today's links Trump and the unmighty dollar: "Flipping the table over in a poker game rigged in your favor because you resent having to pretend to play the game at all." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: H2G2 v BBC; Anti-capitalist bank rave; Narrative and magic; It's still censorship; Boss politics antitrust; Game library; Gamers 6-65; Google Cache; "Probiotics" aren't; "Starve"; Uptown Funk mashup; Not a crime if we do it with an app; Gibson on Stuxnet; Gates sells Tank Man pic to China; Paul Allen's yacht destroys a reef; Mass surveillance in Anaheim. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. Continue reading "Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026)" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on January 26, 2026February 1, 2026Categories UncategorizedTags dan davies, dollar centrality, dollar clearning, dollar dominance, financial coercion, game theory, henry farrell, political science, post-american world, scholarship, swift, the fed, trumpism7 Comments on Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026) Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) Today's links Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs: When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you're not even allowed to call yourself an employee. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Correcting the Disneyland Railroad's Morse code; Breathalyzer source-code; Teaching Little Brother to math students; Arson attacks on Ferguson's Black churches; Tom Lehrer in the public domain. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. Continue reading "Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025)" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on October 23, 2025October 23, 2025Categories UncategorizedTags accountability sinks, ai, amazon, bossware, cctv, chickenization, dair, dair institute, dan davies, delivery service platform, digital whips, disciplinary technology, dsp, empiricism washing, enshittification, guillotine watch, labor, logistics, mentor, netradyne, rabbit scanners, shitty technology adoption curve, surveillance, taylorism, twiddling1 Comment on Pluralistic: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs (23 Oct 2025) Previous editions Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? 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