Pluralistic: The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/

77% of customers reported experiencing a product or service problem in the past year—a rate that has more than doubled since 1976.

https://customercaremc.com/2025-national-customer-rage-study/

Forthcoming from my friend Matthew Quest -- a scholarly treatment of the thought of CLR James ("any cook can govern"), a seriously underappreciated thinker.

https://brill.com/display/book/9789004763470/front-8.xml

Forthcoming from my friend Matthew Quest

https://brill.com/display/book/9789004763470/front-8.xml

I've decided Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration always introduces himself that way so he won't forget what his legitimate business cover is supposed to be.

I thought shit smelled good, until those Chinese propaganda bots cooked my brain
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/china-fueling-u-data-center-092506913.html

"These parents, told by their phones that liberals and communists and maybe Jewish and Muslim folks were trying to overthrow the existing order with a virus created in a Chinese lab, began attending school board meetings for the first time.... These fear-mad people said in one voice: My child will only learn what I want them to learn, and your child will only learn what I want them to learn."
https://badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-woke-and-suzy-still-cant-read/

My uncle by marriage came from a Cajun family. When my aunt's dad died in 1964, his grandparents came up from Louisiana and barely understood enough English to get by.

Greedy_muppet (@greedy_muppet): I left for 10 minutes… #regga instagram post download - imginn.com

https://imginn.com/p/DWb8fUigGe6/

"My own criticism of the report is that it bases itself on distribution after the event, not on ‘predistribution’ ie having collective ownership and control of corporate power. The policy answers offered in the report are: redistributing income through progressive taxation and social transfers; more public investment in education and health; and a global currency system. What is missing here? There is no policy to change radically the socio-economic structure of the world economy – in effect, capitalism is to remain."

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/solving-the-economic-problem/

Liberals should expunge the phrase "their fair share" from their vocabularies. It makes me want to vomit. The wealth of billionaires and multimillionaires is entirely stolen. There is no "fair share" short of stripping them of everything they own.

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/congress-must-act-now-to-protect-social-security-make-the-wealthy-pay-their-fair-share