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Cory Doctorow

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Sep 11, 2025

Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox

Not what the machine does, but who it does it to.

A business-suited figure seen from behind, climbing a tall, existential white stone staircase that rises to infinity. His head has been replaced with a horse’s head. The background has been replaced with a shadowy panel of knobs and buttons.

Cory Doctorow

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Jul 22, 2024

Unpersoned

My latest Locus Magazine column.

An editorial cartoon depicting the Standard Oil company as a word-girdling kraken, choking the statehouse, legislature and White House in its tentacles. It has been modified. The kraken’s head is now surmounted by the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ The sky behind the world has been replaced with a ‘code waterfall’ effect as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis’ ‘Matrix’ movies. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL

Cory Doctorow

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Apr 18, 2024

Podcasting “Capitalists Hate Capitalism”

“Competition is for losers.”

An illuminated manuscript drawing of two serfs threshing wheat. Behind them is a portrait of a fat-cat type in a business suit, with a dollar-sign money-bag for a head.

Cory Doctorow

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Sep 7, 2023

How plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars

My September column in Locus Magazine.

A woodcut of a gentleman at a writing table, staring down at a sheaf of papers. His head has been replaced with the menacing eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.” The paper is covered in the green ‘code waterfall’ from the Wachowskis’ ‘The Matrix.’ Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Cory Doctorow

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Mar 7, 2023

End to End

Willing speakers should reach willing listeners.

A room full of telephone operators at a switchboard; their heads have been replaced with hacker-in-a-hoodie heads. On the wall behind them is a poster ad for Facebook with the slogan, ‘Find Your Facebook Group.’ Atop the switchboard stands a small elephant with a bite taken out of its back. Image: Felix Andrews (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_side-view_Kruger.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Cory Doctorow

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Jan 9, 2023

Social Quitting

How social media barons squandered their lock-in and made themselves obsolete.

Social Quitting

Cory Doctorow

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Dec 6, 2022

Raising money for Locus Magazine

Bid on naming rights for a character in one of my upcoming novels.

Cory Doctorow

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Jul 15, 2022

Moneylike

My September, 2022 column for Locus Magazine

Sauk County Fair Ticket Booth