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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

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Inside: When your ISP pays you; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to/

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Pluralistic: When your ISP pays you (03 Oct 2025)

A female figure in a 1960s dress and gloves, flying through the air astride a Western Electric Bell telephone handset. Her head has been replaced with the head of Karl Marx. A shower of US hundred dollar bills flows out of the receiver's earpiece and mic. In the background is a telephone pole with many wires attached to it, slicing chords through the blue sky.
A female figure in a 1960s dress and gloves, flying through the air astride a Western Electric Bell telephone handset. Her head has been replaced with the head of Karl Marx. A shower of US hundred dollar bills flows out of the receiver's earpiece and mic. In the background is a telephone pole with many wires attached to it, slicing chords through the blue sky.
A female figure in a 1960s dress and gloves, flying through the air astride a Western Electric Bell telephone handset. Her head has been replaced with the head of Karl Marx. A shower of US hundred dollar bills flows out of the receiver's earpiece and mic. In the background is a telephone pole with many wires attached to it, slicing chords through the blue sky.
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Colin Macleod
@CGM@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@pluralistic Hmm, these coops sound dangerously close to *socialism* 😱

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⦺ irick 🐁🐈⚩
@irick@this.mouse.rocks replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@pluralistic
Holy shit that collage goes hard.

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Anand R
@anand@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@pluralistic Are you saying some people are just reading Atlas Shrugged for the pictures?

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Jef Poskanzer :batman:
@jef@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@anand @pluralistic I liked the part about trains.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@anand

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

#20yrsago Internet Archive and Yahoo announce open scanned-in-book index https://web.archive.org/web/20051007010920/https://www.opencontentalliance.org/

#20yrsago Europe’s Broadcast Flag: first look https://web.archive.org/web/20051026014633/https://www.eff.org/IP/DVB/dvb_critique.php

#15yrsago Mouseland: a parable from the father of Canada’s healthcare system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1GtIhwpSk

#15yrsago ElfQuest fan-film blessed by the Pinis https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/10/01/01gigaom-creator-blessed-elfquest-fan-film-crowdsources-fun-7954.html

#10yrsago Pokemon demands $4000 from broke superfan who organized Pokemon party https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/pokemon-copyright-lawyers-demand-4000-from-party-planner/

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Ars Technica

Pokémon copyright lawyers demand $4,000 from party planner

“I literally don’t have $4000… I will never throw another fandom party.”…

Creator-Blessed ElfQuest Fan Film Crowdsources Funds

A film adaptation of cult graphic novel series ElfQuest has been in development for years, but new media actors/producers Stephanie Thorpe and Paula Rhodes aren't waiting around; they're creating a fan trailer, starring some of web video's best-known actresses, with support from ElfQuest's creators.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Hey look at this

* Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs (h/t Slashdot)

* Help Dick Gaughan in seeking to retrieve his music https://www.gofundme.com/f/aatux2 (h/t Wendy Grossman)

* LLMs Are the Ultimate Demoware https://blog.charliemeyer.co/llms-are-the-ultimate-demoware/

* Mel Lastman https://www.patreon.com/posts/mel-lastman-140195778

* Who Is The Sky? | David Byrne https://davidbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/who-is-the-sky

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David Byrne

Who Is The Sky?, by David Byrne

12 track album
Charlie Meyer's Blog

LLMs Are the Ultimate Demoware

“Software” is a program that runs on your computer that allows you to accomplish a task. Software is “good” if it frequently allows you to accomplish sa...
gofundme.com

Donate to Help Dick Gaughan in seeking to retrieve his music, organized by Colin Harper

This is a crowdfunding appeal to raise legal fees to test the claims b… Colin Harper needs your support for Help Dick Gaughan in seeking to retrieve his music
The Budget Lab at Yale

Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Hey look at this

* Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs (h/t Slashdot)

* Help Dick Gaughan in seeking to retrieve his music https://www.gofundme.com/f/aatux2 (h/t Wendy Grossman)

* LLMs Are the Ultimate Demoware https://blog.charliemeyer.co/llms-are-the-ultimate-demoware/

* Mel Lastman https://www.patreon.com/posts/mel-lastman-140195778

* Who Is The Sky? | David Byrne https://davidbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/who-is-the-sky

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David Byrne

Who Is The Sky?, by David Byrne

12 track album
Charlie Meyer's Blog

LLMs Are the Ultimate Demoware

“Software” is a program that runs on your computer that allows you to accomplish a task. Software is “good” if it frequently allows you to accomplish sa...
gofundme.com

Donate to Help Dick Gaughan in seeking to retrieve his music, organized by Colin Harper

This is a crowdfunding appeal to raise legal fees to test the claims b… Colin Harper needs your support for Help Dick Gaughan in seeking to retrieve his music
The Budget Lab at Yale

Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs

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