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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

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Pinned

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Oct 15

Object permanence

Publisher won’t revert rights; SNL’s Trump/Clinton debate; Chicago Tribune’s murder; AI after AI.

Object permanence

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5h ago

Object permanence

Canada’s corrupt copyright czar; Universal Music CEO v iPod owners; Berlusconi x neo-fascists; Balancing 3,118 coins on a dime; All…

Object permanence

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5h ago

I told you so

Microsoft is too big to live.

The Earth from space, wreathed in flames. Protruding from a vast mid-North American impact crater is Microsoft Clippy, shimmering in the heat.

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1d ago

Object permanence

Folky Song Funny Note; Surviving autocracy; Corporate criminals.

Object permanence

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1d ago

Uber’s labor crash

Replacing serfs with robots just doesn’t pencil out.

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2d ago

Object permanence

Asimov inspired Al Qaeda; PATRIOT Act scares Canadian customers off US servers; EFF v Trump; Internet infrastructure is unsupported and…

Object permanence

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3d ago

Object permanence

Toothpick sculptures; McRib as a commodities volatility hedge; Hitler’s British passport; Why we get tech wrong; France jails spying EDF…

Object permanence

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3d ago

The EU should go big and hard over border IT failure

Sometimes you have to execute an IT contractor to encourage the others.

Two men in 1960s business-wear peer into the guts of a refrigerator-sized computer cabinet. In the foreground is a huge crowd of 1930s-era people, jostling to get in. Behind the scene is a 1950s airplane on a runway. Floating in the sky are warped, fuzzy EU flag stars.

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4d ago

Object permanence

Zune v Universal; Ben and Jerry’s x OWS; Nudging is bunk; History of Chinese sf; How Audi cheated; Trump runs the surveillance state…

Object permanence

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4d ago

America cannot undo Trumpism

The only way out is through.

A pair of wrecked, overturned wagons against a weathered wooden building tinted like a faded US flag; between them is a DEAD END sign. To the left is a 1930s streetcorner with a ONE-WAY sign; entering from that edge is an engraving of an elephant with upraised trunk, decorated in GOP livery and topped with a mop of Trump hair.

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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