Pete Dempsey
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This week’s main Better Offline episode is the audio of my panel with Cory Doctorow at the Seattle Public Library, where we talked about Enshittification and The Rot Economy. Whitney Beltràn moderated.
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Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 11/12/2025 · 58m
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November 12, 2025 at 6:38 AM
This week’s main Better Offline episode is the audio of my panel with Cory Doctorow at the Seattle Public Library, where we talked about Enshittification and The Rot Economy. Whitney Beltràn moderated.
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"Despite concerns about accuracy and bias, the market size of emotion AI technologies is expected to grow to nearly $450 billion by 2032."
Issues we should all be paying attention to
"Despite concerns about accuracy and bias, the market size of emotion AI technologies is expected to grow to nearly $450 billion by 2032."
Issues we should all be paying attention to
The “Privacy” Trap
Corporations are rolling out new technologies that may technically comply with data privacy laws, but actually create more ways to control and exploit workers. This brief offers concrete principles fo...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"Despite concerns about accuracy and bias, the market size of emotion AI technologies is expected to grow to nearly $450 billion by 2032."
Issues we should all be paying attention to
"Despite concerns about accuracy and bias, the market size of emotion AI technologies is expected to grow to nearly $450 billion by 2032."
Issues we should all be paying attention to
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From @aaronrosspowell.com on integrating blogging and social media.
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Read the whole thing, as they used to say.
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Read the whole thing, as they used to say.
Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social Media - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
Decentralization, network overlap, and why we should all blog, too.
www.aaronrosspowell.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
From @aaronrosspowell.com on integrating blogging and social media.
www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m4jmwemgkk2...
Read the whole thing, as they used to say.
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Read the whole thing, as they used to say.
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there is NOTHING in the science to justify this. fuck this
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
there is NOTHING in the science to justify this. fuck this
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lol no they absolutely will not, for so many reasons
I'd bet everything I own that in 20 years there will never be more than 1000 people in space at any one time. (It'll probably be well under 100.) Nobody will be living there with their kids.
Tech billionaires don't know a damn thing about tech.
I'd bet everything I own that in 20 years there will never be more than 1000 people in space at any one time. (It'll probably be well under 100.) Nobody will be living there with their kids.
Tech billionaires don't know a damn thing about tech.
Jeff Bezos Says He Doesn't Understand Why Anybody Alive Now Would Be 'Discouraged'—Because Soon, 'Millions Of People Will Be Living In Space'
Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he "doesn't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now." Speaking at Italian Tech Week 2025 earlier this month with Ferrari and Stellantis chair...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
lol no they absolutely will not, for so many reasons
I'd bet everything I own that in 20 years there will never be more than 1000 people in space at any one time. (It'll probably be well under 100.) Nobody will be living there with their kids.
Tech billionaires don't know a damn thing about tech.
I'd bet everything I own that in 20 years there will never be more than 1000 people in space at any one time. (It'll probably be well under 100.) Nobody will be living there with their kids.
Tech billionaires don't know a damn thing about tech.
October 2025 Reading
🚀More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
💸The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
⚖️The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
💩Enshittification by Corey Doctorow
📈The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2015 by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech
🚀More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
💸The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
⚖️The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
💩Enshittification by Corey Doctorow
📈The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2015 by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
October 2025 Reading
🚀More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
💸The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
⚖️The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
💩Enshittification by Corey Doctorow
📈The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2015 by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech
🚀More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
💸The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
⚖️The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
💩Enshittification by Corey Doctorow
📈The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2015 by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech
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This new reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social is jaw-dropping and I think warrants a response from @cos.io given their ongoing collaboration with Meta.
Jeff writes about how Meta identified content-specific harms as a key problem for teens on Instagram. 🧵
www.reuters.com/business/ins...
Jeff writes about how Meta identified content-specific harms as a key problem for teens on Instagram. 🧵
www.reuters.com/business/ins...
Exclusive: Instagram shows more ‘eating disorder adjacent’ content to vulnerable teens, internal Meta research shows
Meta researchers found that teens who report that Instagram regularly made them feel bad about their bodies saw significantly more “eating disorder adjacent content” than those who did not, according to an internal document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This new reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social is jaw-dropping and I think warrants a response from @cos.io given their ongoing collaboration with Meta.
Jeff writes about how Meta identified content-specific harms as a key problem for teens on Instagram. 🧵
www.reuters.com/business/ins...
Jeff writes about how Meta identified content-specific harms as a key problem for teens on Instagram. 🧵
www.reuters.com/business/ins...
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In the latest installment of Bad Letters, let's learn from EFF's @maassive.bsky.social about the surveillance tech that could soon be roaming the skies in your city. Learn more at www.eff.org/DFR.
October 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In the latest installment of Bad Letters, let's learn from EFF's @maassive.bsky.social about the surveillance tech that could soon be roaming the skies in your city. Learn more at www.eff.org/DFR.
