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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life after AI

A short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.

2026

Stories

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14h ago

Object permanence

Pro-logging Lorax; Anti-DRM picture book; Whose cops did America train? Day on a Device; Theresa May x Fresh Prince; Ratfucking Corbyn…

Object permanence

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1d ago

Object permanence

“Alanya to Alanya”; ToS are the internet’s biggest lie; Soviet jokes; Fox rapists v gag orders; GBAO is the future; “Fun Family”; Sacklers…

Object permanence

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1d ago

Workplace “flexibility” isn’t

What the gig economy calls flexibility is just risk-shifting.

A giant arachnoid woman arched backwards on the banks of a tropical river alongside which stand armed men. Behind loom palms, mountains and a smoking volcano. Rain sleets down over the scene.

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2d ago

Object permanence

Awkward questions for the entertainment industry; ISP v record label death penalty; Coming out on Splash Mountain; Negative Swiss bond…

Object permanence

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2d ago

“Rights for robots” and the AI slavery fantasy

When we were robots in Egypt…

A Dore engraving of Samson toppling the temple, in which a loincloth-clad Samson pushes aside the columns holding up an Egyptian(ish) temple as people flee the collapsing roof. The image has been altered: Samson’s head has been replaced with the head of a pulp magazine robot, while in the background trudge away many other robots. Samson is gold-tinted, and has been limned with a nova of golden light. The rest of the image has been hand-tinted.

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3d ago

Object permanence

Workplace email spying; Record label internet death penalty; News should be cheap, free and chaotic; “Jughead”.

Object permanence

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3d ago

Post-political

What a “leftist” is.

The icy chamber at the center of Dante’s hell, dominated by Satan, massive and peering around with his chin propped on his elbows, which rest of the ice-sheet. From the ceiling of the chamber dangles a massive, decapitated head, suspended by the hair. Beneath it is a pile of corpses in middle ages armor. On the opposite side of the chamber stands a suburban housing plot; another group of (living) soldiers in armour aim a giant catapult at it. Image: Lewis Clarke (modified) https://commons.wikim

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4d ago

Object permanence

MSFT x OSCON; Parental spyware; “Resurrection Man”; Brexit do-over petition.

Object permanence

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5d ago

Object permanence

Paperclip traded for house; Pen with shredder; Broadcast Treaty is back; “Influencing Machine”; ANSI x paid sex; Biden x Right to Repair…

Object permanence

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5d ago

How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech

Their common enemies are Trump and his tech giants.

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

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Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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