Ken Kelly SF art 💫 www.tumblr.com/scifiartblas...

Tactical baby carrier

The sleek supersonic jet it ejected from

Global wind turbine installations hit a record last year! 😍 about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

Capsule Ejection System, Escape Pod, Escape capsule, Convair B-58A Hustler, thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/8107012...

The very rich are different from you and me - F Scott Fitzgerald Yes, they have more money - Ernest Hemingway And no impostor syndrome - Cory Doctorow

Warum ist Überreichtum schlecht? 🧵

El vaig veure. El @doctorow.pluralistic.net presenta el llibre el 20 de març a les 19 a la Finestres.

@doctorow.pluralistic.net you got name checked here ^^ (also that ad is EXACTLY what tech do 🫠). www.linkedin.com/posts/thatso...

And from the person who popularized the term “enshittification”, we have a new one describing these billionaires: “morbidly wealthy.” bsky.app/profile/doct...

This is a great new term from @doctorow.pluralistic.net

And if I recall, it’s also what made Fafnir the giant into a dragon, and his brother the dwarf into an abetter of fratricide.

Reminder that the dragon sitting on the mountain of gold was the villain of The Hobbit, and that gold also almost immediately made one of the protagonists into an antagonist too.

Every billionaire is a machine for producing policy failures at scale. Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a...

We know how well company towns worked before. @doctorow.pluralistic.net gizmodo.com/coming-soon-...

Dad, can we go play on the orb playground now!?

Doctorow also described it as such, a couple months ago. It's an apt comparison. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/g...

1038 words (46380 total) on “The Post-American Internet,” a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America #DailyWords

Is there any more cringe-worthy a person than the one who squirms out of the woodwork when a high-profile figure is revealed to be a monster and announces, "Well, I NEVER liked him!" That said, I've hated Bill Gates since the 90s, mostly for fucking up my PC, but also for the reasons Doctorow lists

Very good read

Yes, we need to reframe billionaires as sick individuals with an insatiable appetite for money-people who require intervention rather than admiration.

@alltoosuman.bsky.social @ebharrington.bsky.social Good piece this. “Most guillotineable” should be this year’s “enshittification”—i.e. word of the year

Now @doctorow.pluralistic.net is here I can tag him into past posts where I quoted him. If you liked the below you can now follow him

And for completeness this was where @doctorow.pluralistic.net intersected with our Global Disorder publications bsky.app/profile/heta...

Not gonna lie, I can see "morbidly wealthy" being a phrase I use a lot.

Amida on the Lotus, from Athanasius Kircher’s China Illustrata, 1665. publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8106427...

It's just bloody marvellous that Cory Doctorow is here. Another excellent read today:

Entertaining episode of @twit.tv with @doctorow.pluralistic.net and @accordionguy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPuX...

"if you're a rich person, you can surround yourself with people who will tell you that you are right even when you are so wrong, with the result that you get progressively more wrong, until you literally kill yourself" - great thread/post by @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Lido Beach Motel, Daytona Beach, Florida www.tumblr.com/hooperdrives...

"Wealth greatly in excess of need rots the soul."

Yup

Rich people aren’t necessarily bad people, but when you’re so rich there’s no “error signal” or “pain” in your life it’s much more probable you do things to hurt others and yourself because you literally aren’t feeling it.

“[I]f you think none of the shit you believe in is stupid, I'm afraid we've just identified at least one kind of stupid shit you believe” — another doctorowism worth your time.

Madball by Fredric Brown Gold Medal S-1132 (1961) Cover by Mitchell Hooks www.tumblr.com/hooperdrives...

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just debris from a successful interception. If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

"'It was a price to pay for Berkeley I guess,”'the student said in a text message. 'And I don’t judge or complain. Hire me as a lawyer/paralegal at some point - way better than supplying you ladies'." 2/2

"In 2019, the student shared via WhatsApp how the work they had done for Epstein negatively impacted their reputation in the Swiss investment bank they previously worked at + 'other Swiss circles.' The student described their work for Epstein as a 'side gig' recruiting for a businessman in NY." 1/2

"Epstein later chastised the student after she recommended a 28-year-old as an assistant. In the email, Epstein said the student was not meeting his requirements, to which the student replied with 'ok, no more over 24! Sorry for that'."

INBOX: First reported by the Daily Californian, records show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein funded a student’s UC Berkeley School of Law degree in return for referring female “assistants.” www.dailycal.org/news/nationa...

Apart from the fact political donations clearly undermine democracy, it is absurd to argue -as Reform do- that foreign born ppl who pay their taxes here shouldn’t have the vote, but ppl who left the uk to enjoy an easier tax burden, should be able to fund parties & buy political influence.

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand. Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules. observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a... #Pluralistic 1/

Even if rich people were no more prone to believe stupid shit than you or me, it would still be a problem. After all, I believe in my share of stupid shit (and if you think none of the shit you believe in is stupid, I'm afraid we've just identified at least one kind of stupid shit you believe). 1/

Letters F to N in Jacobus Publicius’ “mnemonic alphabet”, 1482. Each object echoes a letter’s shape, a technique used to aid memory. publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8106221...