Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars: A/B splitting your way into doing a total fucking racism.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-12-11 16:14:32

There's a whole greedflation-denial cottage industry that insists that rising prices are either the result of unknowable, untameable and mysterious economic forces, or they're the result of workers having too much money and too many jobs.

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Hey look at this

* Uber is selling your ride and food ordering data to advertisers for marketing insights boingboing.net/2025/12/08/uber…

* 404 Media Is Making a Zine 404media.co/404-media-is-makin…

* Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now labornotes.org/2025/12/maybe-g…

* The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

* Bringing organizational maturity to radical groups blog.bl00cyb.org/2025/12/bring…

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#20yrsago Free voicemail helps homeless people get jobs web.archive.org/web/2005121002…

#20yrsago Anti-P2P company decides to focus on selling music instead de.advfn.com/borse/NASDAQ/LOUD…

#20yrsago Caller Eye-Deer’s eyes glow when phone rings flickr.com/photos/84221353@N00…

#20yrsago EFF to Sunncomm: release a list of all infected CDs! web.archive.org/web/2005121207…

#20yrsago Only 2% of music-store downloaders care about legality of their music web.archive.org/web/2005122520…

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#20yrsago Dykes on Bikes gives the Trademark Office a linguistics lesson web.archive.org/web/2006052313…

#20yrsago Robert Sheckley has died nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/…

#20yrsago Xbox 360 DRM makes your rip your CDs again gamespot.com/articles/microsof…

#20yrsago Music publishers: Jail for lyric-sites news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainm…

#15yrsago 2600 Magazine condemns DDoS attacks against Wikileaks censors web.archive.org/web/2010121021…

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#15yrsago UK supergroup records 4’33”, hopes to top Xmas charts theguardian.com/music/2010/dec…

#15yrsago FarmVille’s secret: making you anxious web.archive.org/web/2010121112…

#15yrsago Rogue Archivist beer web.archive.org/web/2010121406…

#15yrsago Hossein “Hoder” Derakhshan temporarily released from Iranian prison cyrusfarivar.com/blog/2010/12/…

#15yrsago Student protesters in London use Google Maps to outwit police “kettling” web.archive.org/web/2010121204…

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#15yrsago Google foreclosure maps web.archive.org/web/2017041216…

#15yrsago Theory and practice of queue design passport2dreams.blogspot.com/2…

#15yrsago Legal analysis of the problems of superherodom lawandthemultiverse.com/

#10yrsago A great, low-tech hack for teaching high-tech skills miriamposner.com/blog/a-better…

#10yrsago In case you were wondering, there’s no reason to squirt coffee up your ass scienceblogs.com/insolence/201…

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#10yrsago Survey of wealthy customers leads insurer to offer “troll insurance” telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsby…

#10yrsago US State Department staffer sexually blackmailed women while working at US embassy web.archive.org/web/2015121023…

#10yrsago Robert Silverberg’s government-funded guide to the psychoactive drugs of sf web.archive.org/web/2015121105…

#10yrsago Toy demands that kids catch crickets and stuff them into an electronic car wired.com/2015/12/um-so-the-bu…

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#10yrsago The crypto explainer you should send to your boss (and the FBI) web.archive.org/web/2015120901…

#10yrsago French PM defies Ministry of Interior, says he won’t ban open wifi or Tor web.archive.org/web/2016072603…

#10yrsago The no-fly list really is a no-brainer theguardian.com/us-news/2015/d…

#10yrsago America: shrinking middle class, growing poverty, the rich are getting richer pewresearch.org/social-trends/…

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#10yrsago Marriott removing desks from its hotel rooms “because Millennials” web.archive.org/web/2015121003…

#10yrsago China’s top Internet censor: “There’s no Internet censorship in China” hongkongfp.com/2015/12/09/ther…

#10yrsago Stolen-card crime sites use “cop detection” algorithms to flag purchases krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/wh…

#10yrsago UK National Crime Agency: if your kids like computers, they’re probably criminals youtube.com/watch?v=DjYrxzSe3D…

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#10yrsago US immigration law: so f’ed up that Trump’s no-Muslim plan would be constitutional nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion…

#10yrsago Ecuador’s draft copyright law: legal to break DRM to achieve fair use medium.com/@AndresDelgadoEC/bi…

#10yrsago One billion Creative Commons licenses in use stateof.creativecommons.org/20…

#10yrsago The moral character of cryptographic work web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/pa…

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#10yrsago Everybody knows: FBI won’t confirm or deny buying cyberweapons from Hacking Team web.archive.org/web/2015120916…

#10yrsago European Commission resurrects an unkillable stupid: the link tax web.archive.org/web/2016091309…

#5yrsago Why we can't have nice things pluralistic.net/2020/12/10/bor…

#5yrsago Facebook vs Robert Bork pluralistic.net/2020/12/10/bor…

#1yrago Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline pluralistic.net/2024/12/10/bdf…

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#1yrago Predicting the present pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/rad…

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Yesterday's threads: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-12-09 11:15:58

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/09/tem…

#Pluralistic

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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

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Book details - Macmillan Publishers

Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
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* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
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* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
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Recent appearances:

* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHx…

* Enshittification on The Daily Show
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* Enshittification with Four Ways to Change the World (Channel 4)
youtube.com/watch?v=tZQaEeuuI3…

* The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. (Novarra Media)
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* Enshittification (Future Knowledge)
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/…

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I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…

and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
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I hope you can make it!

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"For while we are best off when we are unoptimizable, we are also best off when corporations are totally optimized – for our benefit."

Inshallah!