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I’m on tour with my new book,The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. Catch me TONIGHT (Jun 25) in PHILLYand TOMORROW (Jun 26) in CHICAGO**.**

It’s not often that someone on a panel says something that makes my jaw drop, but that’s what happened earlier this week when the moderator of a panel I was on in Toronto described jailbreaking an…

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand/#autodisparagement

More than a decade ago, a group of young,…

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I’m on tour with my new book,The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. Catch me**TONIGHT (Jun 23) in TORONTO at Osler Records, andTOMORROW (Jun 24) in NYC at The Strand. After that, it’sPhillyandChicago.**

The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with…

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I’m on tour with my new book,The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI. Catch me in LA TOMORROW (Jun 19) at Skylight Books, and on SUNDAY (Jun 21) at Kepler’s in Menlo Park. After that, it’s Toronto, NYC, Philly and Chicago.

Back at the height of the blockchain bubble, I made a hobby of pointing out that crypto weirdos were palming a card.…

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/15/vernacular/#hypercardian

Over the weekend, I did an interview about my forthcoming book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI (a book about…

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/12/compelled-speech/#quishing

Long before “agentic AI,” we had the idea that software would act as your agent on the internet. That’s why the old-fashioned…

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The world has moved on

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> _The listed price is not the price you will pay, that is actually 5% more._
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> Time to contact the state AG?

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/06/applied-counterescatology/#step-right-up

“Gish Gallop” is the debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that “it’s impossible to address…

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> -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

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My next book is The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI**, out next month.** Pre-order it now, including as a DRM-free audiobook or ebook, at my Kickstarter**, and help me continue to prove that DRM-free isn’t just the** rightway to reach an audience, it’s also the bestway to reach them.

One…

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/09/cossie-livvie-crissie/#dont-let-your-meat-loaf

I’ve got good news and bad news for Trump. The good news: you can get elected by promising to do…

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I’m coming to GUELPH, ONTARIO TOMORROW (May 8) to deliver the Musagetes Lecture.

I am on record as saying that every economic bubble is terrible, but some bubbles do at least leave behind a salvageable productive residue while others leave behind nothing but ashes; indeed, this is the thesis of my next book, _The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to…

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NEW YORKERS! Catch me TONIGHT at The Strand with Sarah Jeong, Tochi Onyebuchi and Alia Dastagir for a PEN World Voices panel called “Techidemic.”

If you want to piss me off, it’s easy: just breezily assert…

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Comrade Trump

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https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/#acceleration

There aren’t a lot of things I agree…

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/#doomer-challenge

Lest anyone accuse me of bargaining in bad faith here,…

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Austerity creates fascism

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https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/13/always-great/#our-nhs

I’m worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I’m worried about the psychosis that makes our…

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Switzerland’s Goldilocks fiber

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/07/swisscom/#stacked

If you live in Switzerland you can get a 25Gbit fiber link to your…

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/07/swisscom/#stacked

If you live in Switzerland you can get a 25Gbit fiber link to your home. That’s 25Gbit symmetrical – upload and download. On a…

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/process-knowledge-vs-bosses/#wash-dishes-cut-wood

“Intellectual property” was once…

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It’s extremely good that Claude’s source-code leaked

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/02/limited-monopoly/#petardism

Anthropic’s developers made an extremely basic configuration…

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/24/degenerated-gambling/#oracle-capture

The most selectively believed-in verse…

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https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/16/whittle-a-webserver/#mere-ornaments

When you think of a legal loophole, you probably imagine a drafting error (or…

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https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap/#inheres-at-the-moment-of-fixation

The Supreme Court has just…

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No one wants to read your AI slop

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Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Read more on…

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If you ’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/#robo-mengele

If you weren’t paying close attention, you might think that the most grotesque and…

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If you ’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/#denazification

America’s descent into authoritarian fascism is made all the more alarming and…