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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: (Digital) Elbows Up; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/

#Pluralistic

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A rectangular motif suggestive of the Canadian flag, flanked by red bars. In the centre is the Jailbreaking Canada logo, a complex vector illustration of a maple leaf mixed with a keyhole, buildings, and various abstract figures.
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Hey #rsync experts! I have a large (100GB) Veracrypt partition that I often mount but rarely make changes to. However, it seems like the mere act of mounting this partition changes its mod date, such that rsync wants to recopy it, which takes a long time. How do I avoid this? I don't want to just ignore that file (because I do sometimes mod it). Nor do I want to back up its contents in the clear on the backup drive (I want to back up the encrypted partition blob). Ideas?

Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Announcing the Enshittification tour; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/30/enshittification-tour/

#Pluralistic

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A hobo with a bindlestiff, walking down a lonely train track. His head has been replaced with a poop emoji with angry eyebrows whose mouth is covered with a black bar covered in grawlix.
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/13/then-they-came-for-me/

#Pluralistic

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A red, angry mushroom cloud. Sitting atop it, surrounded by blue skies and fluffy clouds, is a smirking business-suited man reclining in an armchair. He wears a MAGA hat and reads a magazine turned to a page showing Donald Trump's face.
Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/26

Because for all that they moan about "wokeness," they wouldn't want their kids to have to tolerate a shitty boss; they wouldn't want their kids to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. They wanna live out their cuckold fantasies in peace:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/02/stephen-miller-wife-musk/

They don't have any problem with living in a world where there's lip service to social values and Pricewaterhousecooper has a cringe Pride parade float.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/eof

They'll happily save a couple bucks on the nanny's abortion by going down to the corner Planned Parenthood rather than flying her to Toronto on the private jet. All that performative cruelty was just a shuck to get some of the dumber surviving turkeys to pull the lever for Christmas. So long as they can live in a world where the law protects them, but does not bind them, they're happy as pigs in shit.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/25

You can bet your ass that if it looks like Trump is gonna lose his grip on power, they'll come sleazing over the Democrats, demanding the defenstration of Mamdani, Porter, and anyone who wants a habitable and just world, rather than a system designed to convert the planet's resources to something that can be sequestered in a luxury bunker or on a private island.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/26

Because for all that they moan about "wokeness," they wouldn't want their kids to have to tolerate a shitty boss; they wouldn't want their kids to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. They wanna live out their cuckold fantasies in peace:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/02/stephen-miller-wife-musk/

They don't have any problem with living in a world where there's lip service to social values and Pricewaterhousecooper has a cringe Pride parade float.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/24

Maga's finance wing are convinced that the game is rigged in their favor - heads they win and the law protects them, tails we lose and the law binds us. But if there's one thing we know about gangster capitalism, it's that the capo isn't shy about seizing the fortunes of his various underbosses when the mood suits him. One day he's demanding that you quit your job as CEO, the next day he imposes a 15% tax on your products:

https://www.firstpost.com/world/trump-meets-intel-chief-calls-him-a-success-days-after-demanding-his-resignation-13923838.html

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/25

You can bet your ass that if it looks like Trump is gonna lose his grip on power, they'll come sleazing over the Democrats, demanding the defenstration of Mamdani, Porter, and anyone who wants a habitable and just world, rather than a system designed to convert the planet's resources to something that can be sequestered in a luxury bunker or on a private island.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/23

They ratfucked Katie Porter, one of finance's most savage and talented opponents, teaming up with the crypto-bros who are Maga's bagmen. Joke's on them, because it looks like Porter is gonna be California's next governor:

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-08-13-establishment-struggles-control-california-governors-race/

(I donated $100 I can't afford to her campaign; maybe you will donate, too?)

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kpg_web

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/24

Maga's finance wing are convinced that the game is rigged in their favor - heads they win and the law protects them, tails we lose and the law binds us. But if there's one thing we know about gangster capitalism, it's that the capo isn't shy about seizing the fortunes of his various underbosses when the mood suits him. One day he's demanding that you quit your job as CEO, the next day he imposes a 15% tax on your products:

https://www.firstpost.com/world/trump-meets-intel-chief-calls-him-a-success-days-after-demanding-his-resignation-13923838.html

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/22

The Obama wing of the party insists that they're the responsible adults in the room, the ones that will govern wisely and hold their gigadonors to account when they wreck the economy. They tell us Zohran Mamdani is - despite all evidence to the contrary - too unpopular to win an election:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/23

They ratfucked Katie Porter, one of finance's most savage and talented opponents, teaming up with the crypto-bros who are Maga's bagmen. Joke's on them, because it looks like Porter is gonna be California's next governor:

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-08-13-establishment-struggles-control-california-governors-race/

(I donated $100 I can't afford to her campaign; maybe you will donate, too?)

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kpg_web

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/21

And bailouts for finance crooks are a bipartisan consensus. Remember, it was Obama, not Bush, who took his Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's advice to allow the bailed-out banks to steal their borrowers homes and trigger the foreclosure crisis, because this would "foam the runways" for the crashing banks:

https://www.salon.com/2014/05/14/this_man_made_millions_suffer_tim_geithners_sorry_legacy_on_housing/

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Long thread/22

The Obama wing of the party insists that they're the responsible adults in the room, the ones that will govern wisely and hold their gigadonors to account when they wreck the economy. They tell us Zohran Mamdani is - despite all evidence to the contrary - too unpopular to win an election:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/#trustbusting

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