Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More| Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Cory Doctorow describes how software platform technologies go wrong and what it might look like when our homes and vehicles are on those platforms.| www.volts.wtf
UnitedHealth Group is not an insurer, it's a platform. And it's in the crosshairs as Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley propose breaking it apart, severing its pharmacy arm from the rest of the business| www.thebignewsletter.com
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
A USA TODAY BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity"An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s tech giants, and how we can start fighting to get it back." –Tim Maughan, author of INFINITE DETAIL"A brilliant barn burner of a book| www.booksoup.com
88.1K Posts, 949 Following, 67.6K Followers · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow@mamot.fr. 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 - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
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