Cory Doctorow

An amazing thing happened this week: a whopping bipartisan Senate majority (89:10!) passed Elizabeth Warren's housing bill, which severely limits private equity companies' ability to buy single-family homes to turn into rental properties: https://prospect.org/2026/03/13/elizabeth-warrens-amazing… -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/14/ill-have-what-xis-havi… 1/

1035 words (49526 total) on “The Post-American Internet,” a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America #DailyWords

"AI psychosis" is one of those terms that is incredibly useful and also almost certainly going to be deprecated in smart circles in short order because it is: a) useful; b) easily colloquialized to describe related phenomena; and c) adjacent to medical issues.There's a group of people who feel very strongly any metaphor that implicates human health is intrinsically stigmatizing and must be replaced with an awkward, lengthy phrase that no one can remember and only insiders understand. 1/

What do we think the blacked out letters are?

Little Robbie Banks's mum got very cross when he fell behind on his still-life painting homework.

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/ #Pluralistic 1/