Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow. Archived at pluralistic.net I post long threads. If you don't like these in your timeline but want to read them, I suggest unfollowing me here and subscribing to my RSS, or my newsletter, or any of my various long-form feeds. Links at https://pluralistic.net.
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow. Archived at pluralistic.net I post long threads. If you don't like these in your timeline but want to read them, I suggest unfollowing me here and subscribing to my RSS, or my newsletter, or any of my various long-form feeds. Links at https://pluralistic.net.
mamot.fr
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Apr 13, 2026
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That's some *next-level* underpants-gnomery:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism
The thing that worries me about billionaires' AI psychosis isn't concern for their financial solvency.
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Phantasm
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Feb 12, 2026
@a@fedi.layer02.net Decided to instead do what Mastodon does, since that's what most of the network is. And since it's always Mastodon. That section now is as follows.
Differentiating between scopes can then be done like this:
Public - to has as:PublicUnlisted - cc has as:PublicFollowers Only/Locked - Followers Only/Locked - Actor's followers Collection is either in cc, to, or both, and as:Public is in neitherDirect - Actor's followers Collection is neither in cc or to, cc and to have only Actors, and as:Public is in neither
It can be more complicated since different scopes than that are being used, but this is the gist.
As a side-effect I think it is also more readable.
>if you wanted to, the bubble thing could be done with collections
That would be ideal and that was also my intention. Issue is how you indicate it properly as a new scope without doing dumb things. You introduce a new special URI (ak:Bubble) that when dereferenced gets you a Collection. The jank would be, that cc/to would have something like https://ak.example.com/ns/extensions#Bubble and GETing that URI would give you an AP collection. Not really a fan of how that would work, but you don't have much options. Doing it the Misskey way of inserting _akkoma_audience: "Bubble" to the Object is even dumber.
There is probably a better way, but I can't think of one right now.
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Markus Feilner
@mfeilner@mastodon.social
Open Source journalist, evangelist, ambassador, manager, writer, coach, keynote speaker, press speaker Scientists4Future Germany. This is a private account, not official views. Focus on OSI layers 8 to 11, public administration and digitalization, digital sovereignty/sustainability/sobriety. OSS/Linux since 1994. Feilner IT since 2000. website: https://www.feilner-it.net fediverse coaching: https://fediverse.feilner-it.net/ AI vs. Ethics: http://www.feilner-it.net/files/KI-Ethik2025.pdf
mastodon.social
Markus Feilner
@mfeilner@mastodon.social
Open Source journalist, evangelist, ambassador, manager, writer, coach, keynote speaker, press speaker Scientists4Future Germany. This is a private account, not official views. Focus on OSI layers 8 to 11, public administration and digitalization, digital sovereignty/sustainability/sobriety. OSS/Linux since 1994. Feilner IT since 2000. website: https://www.feilner-it.net fediverse coaching: https://fediverse.feilner-it.net/ AI vs. Ethics: http://www.feilner-it.net/files/KI-Ethik2025.pdf
mastodon.social
@mfeilner@mastodon.social
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Jan 06, 2026
"Yet, it turns out no one is buying Copilot."
#Microsoft #Copilot #AI #KI #Bubble
"But why is Copilot’s growth and/or sales so bad? Well, one study tested these ‘agentic’ AIs, including Copilot, and found that they flat out failed to complete even simple tasks 70% of the time, rendering them somewhere between useless and an active hindrance.
The same is true for Microsoft’s cash baby, ChatGPT."
No shit, sherlock?
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel
(Danke, Mathias!)
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Philip Brewer
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I write science fiction and fantasy stories. I speak Esperanto, and use it to communicate internationally. Esperantistoj, legu mian esperantan hejmpaĝon. For a while I taught Taiji. For eleven years I was a senior writer at Wise Bread, writing about personal finance and frugality. Before that I spent a quarter-century as a software engineer.
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Philip Brewer
@philipbrewer@wandering.shop
I write science fiction and fantasy stories. I speak Esperanto, and use it to communicate internationally. Esperantistoj, legu mian esperantan hejmpaĝon. For a while I taught Taiji. For eleven years I was a senior writer at Wise Bread, writing about personal finance and frugality. Before that I spent a quarter-century as a software engineer.
wandering.shop
@philipbrewer@wandering.shop
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Nov 18, 2025
Recent financial shenanigans have turned the AI bubble from the minor sort that just burns people who invest foolishly into the major sort that crashes the economy when it pops.
So I wrote an article about the difference, and about what to do to protect your finances.
https://www.philipbrewer.net/2025/11/18/prepare-yourself-for-the-pop-of-the-ai-bubble/
#AI #bubble
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