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Inside: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/not…

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A 1950s image of a mother and daughter pushing a shopping cart down a grocery store aisle. The left halves of these figures have stylized ASCII art superimposed over them. Behind them looms the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The floor is gilded. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Pluralistic: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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

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

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A 1960s ad for IBM mainframes, featuring a woman in an office chair seated at a console, surrounded by large processing and storage units. It has been modified. A man in a business suit, impatiently checking his watch, looms out from between two of the cabinets. His head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The woman's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie. Both the woman and the man have been tinted red. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Pluralistic: Big Tech joins the race to build the world’s heaviest airplane (09 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Inside: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big…

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The second inauguration of Grover Cleveland (1893) before a bunting-draped Library of Congress. The image has been colorized. Cleveland has been replaced with a politician figure making 'V' fingers in front of a bank of microphones; the politician's head has been replaced with Benjamin Franklin's head from a 1999 issue US $100 bill. That same bill has been matted in as the background of the inauguration scene.

Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of “political capitalism” (06 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Inside: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop…

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https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington The staring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey. In the center is the poop emoji from the cover of the US edition of 'Enshittification,' with angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-scrawled bar over its mouth. The poop emoji's eyes have also been replaced with the HAL eye. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Inside: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/01/eri…

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A 1950s image of a cop with a patrol car lecturing a boy on a bicycle. Both the cop's head and the boy's head have been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar. The ground has been replaced with a 'code waterfall' effect as seen in the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. The background has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The cop's uniform and car have been decorated to resemble the livery of the Irish Garda (police) and a Garda logo has been placed over the right breast of the cop's uniform shirt. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Pluralistic: Meta’s new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta’s feelings (01 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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