@pluralistic > Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026):

Like all the best Americans, I am a Canadian, and while I have lived abroad for more than two decades, I flatter myself that I am still steeped in our folkways, and so as is traditional at events like this, I would like to begin by apologising... I'm sorry... I'm really sorry... I know that at a tech event, you expect to hear from a speaker who will come up and tell you how to lose hundreds of billions of dollars building data-centres for the money-losingest technology in human history, a technology so wildly defective that we've had to come up with new, exotic words to describe its defects, like "hallucination." A technology that will never recoup the capex already firehosed on – let alone the trillions committed to it – and whose only possible path to glory is to somehow get so good that it makes millions of people unemployed... But don't worry: you can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it...

#artificialTechnology #enshittification #disenshittification #counterdisruption #datacenters #workers #laborNews #tech #techNews #dmca #techHistory

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa

@pluralistic > Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026):

Like all the best Americans, I am a Canadian, and while I have lived abroad for more than two decades, I flatter myself that I am still steeped in our folkways, and so as is traditional at events like this, I would like to begin by apologising... I'm sorry... I'm really sorry... I know that at a tech event, you expect to hear from a speaker who will come up and tell you how to lose hundreds of billions of dollars building data-centres for the money-losingest technology in human history, a technology so wildly defective that we've had to come up with new, exotic words to describe its defects, like "hallucination." A technology that will never recoup the capex already firehosed on – let alone the trillions committed to it – and whose only possible path to glory is to somehow get so good that it makes millions of people unemployed... But don't worry: you can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it...

#artificialTechnology #enshittification #disenshittification #counterdisruption #datacenters #workers #laborNews #tech #techNews #dmca #techHistory

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa

So, you mean our biggestest bestest bigliest friendliest ally in the whole wide world of THE WEST has never actually had any interest in our (UK, EU or Canada) well being, other than as a giant cash cow??

But they seemed so nice....

This piece by @pluralistic, although Canadian focused, applies equally to all the US's western allies:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/#mere-billions

For the EU talk:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

It's time to ditch corporate USA for good.

#PostAmericanInternet #Disenshittification

So, you mean our biggestest bestest bigliest friendliest ally in the whole wide world of THE WEST has never actually had any interest in our (UK, EU or Canada) well being, other than as a giant cash cow??

But they seemed so nice....

This piece by @pluralistic, although Canadian focused, applies equally to all the US's western allies:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/#mere-billions

For the EU talk:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

It's time to ditch corporate USA for good.

#PostAmericanInternet #Disenshittification

Cory Doctorow spoke at the 39C3 on 28 Dec ’25. There, he described a way to finally escape the US-controlled, enshittified internet — by means that D. J. Trump accidentally opened access to.

‘Virtually every government ministry, every major corporation, every small business, every household in the world have locked themselves into a US-based, cloud-based service.’

‘So this is the third bloc in the disenshittification army: not just digital rights hippies like me; not just entrepreneurs and economic development wonks rubbing their hands together at the thought of transforming American trillions into European billions; but also the national security hawks who are 100% justified in their extreme concern about their country’s reliance on American platforms that have been shown to be totally unreliable.’

A brilliant, encouraging speech, worth every one of its 61 minutes. Thank you @pluralistic

Via @_elena and @DataKnightmare⁠, thank you, too.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

#Enshittification #Disenshittification #EU #Canada #USPol #Internet #39C3 #CoryDoctorow

@pluralistic

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It turns out that a lot of "impossible" things are really just fights you'd rather not have.

@pluralistic nails it. https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/

#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #enshittification #disenshittification

@pluralistic 's apt and dreamy call to arms:

We could be a disenshittification nation. We could seize the means of computation. We could have a new, good internet that respects our privacy and our wallets. We could make a goddamned fortune doing it.

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

#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #disenshittification #enshittification

@pluralistic 's apt and dreamy call to arms:

We could be a disenshittification nation. We could seize the means of computation. We could have a new, good internet that respects our privacy and our wallets. We could make a goddamned fortune doing it.

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

#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #disenshittification #enshittification

It turns out that a lot of "impossible" things are really just fights you'd rather not have.

@pluralistic nails it. https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/

#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #enshittification #disenshittification