Brilliant insight from @pluralistic about the strange bedfellows finding common cause around the world against Trumpist America
"A coalition forms when groups set aside their differences to pursue the common elements of their agenda."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/#coalitions
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116515863634209592
"This is the defective reasoning that caused Comrade Trump to hormuz the world into the full Gretacene"
"The world consumes *seventeen* times more fossil fuels in a year than we will require to electrify the planet *forever*"
@pluralistic on surveillance pricing in context of the egregious Maryland Protection Against Predatory Pricing Act (so called)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/#there-ive-done-something
"we live in an era in which “consent” consists of clicking “I agree” when presented with a gigantic list of terms and conditions, which you cannot negotiate, which are subject to change without notice, and which are so long that it would take 26 hours to review all the “agreements” you “consent” to in any given 24-hour day."
Clarion call for all Americans interested in saving what's left of your once-proud nation
@pluralistic on point as always
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/#denazification
Mark Carney's excellent speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos
https://www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_TaVo?si=A2w_O3fT7HB8vNYI
@pluralistic shares a plan to turn Canada into Disenshittification Nation. Sign me up!
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-13-not-sorry-mere-billions-40dd2b261390
Witch hazel
Congrats to The Guardian on hiring Doctorow to explain enshittification to the non-tech masses.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish #enshittification #CoryDoctorow #software
Our current prevailing model for society revolves around an increasingly unregulated capitalism that serves only those already endowed with too much money/power.
If you don't like how that's going, one way of resisting is to focus on the things of value in your life that aren't determined by money.
Find opportunities to live in and promote the free economy: volunteer, swap, donate, share.
Dundas Square in Toronto is to be renamed Sankofa Square, due to Dundas Street having been named for Henry Dundas. He helped delay the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in the 18th century.
Sankofa, “originating in Ghana, refers to the act of reflecting on and reclaiming teachings from the past which enables us to move forward together.”
Excellent story (as usual) from @pluralistic (Cory Doctorow) on Medium: https://doctorow.medium.com/zucks-gravity-defying-metaverse-money-pit-364530ddec0b
Delves into post-capitalist technofeudalism with a focus on meta and the metaverse, with sidebars on Uber and other tech-bro rentier enterprises. Very entertaining. Very true. Very depressing.
Boost if you believe Cory's right about all this.
I made new house numbers out of copper
Legacy codebase
@fossheim "Dataviz a11y nerd." Nice. R you on LinkedIn?