In december 2025, the author and activist Cory Doctorow @[email protected] did a speech at the 39C3 called “post-American, enshittification-resistant internet”
He talks about AI, internet enshitification, anti-circumvention law. guilotine few technofascists…but he also talks about alliance and hope ! ✊
Here is the transcript : https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
You can watch other of video from the chaos congress communication event here : https://media.ccc.de/
Fantastic talk. Also on peertube :)
Glad you enjoyed it :)
There are plenty cool talks from the chaos communication congress event, the hacker event. I put the link at the end of my post.
For example this one is crazy :
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-pwn2roll-who-needs-a-599-remote-when-you-have-wheelchair-py
A 595€ wheelchair remote that sends a handful of Bluetooth commands. A 99.99€ app feature that does exactly what the 595€ hardware does. A speed upgrade from 6 to 8.5 km/h locked behind a 99.99€ paywall - because apparently catching the bus is a premium feature.
Welcome to the wonderful world of DRM in assistive devices, where already expensive basic mobility costs extra and comes with in-app purchases! And because hackers gonna hack, this just could not be left alone.
Watching For All Mankind makes me sad. It’s an alternate timeline where humanity focused on space exploration instead of ad tech. They have the internet but it’s a pure utility for communication. There’s no surveillance capitalism, no social media, none of this junk.
We’ve wasted the past 3 decades using science and technology to enrich the American capital class.
It’s not us, it’s not as we thing. It’s a handful of assholes who have lost their humanity, driving us. For instance, back when they were trying to colonise Australia, they needed a heap of bodies over there to do the manual labour side of it, so they made everything illegal and no way to survive without doing illegal things, for a massive subsection of people, bam they had a workforce, sent in chains, to serve their purposes. Now they use propaganda to enlist the people to support their self serving causes, etc. Join movements to divest and boycott the elite, and you will be working towards building the future you want to see.
I love the breakdown of technology eras through the accellerating science and innovation the continued space race is making.
And three mile island didn’t happen. Because moon reactors lead to greater safety research.
Because Al Gore got to be President!
