I've got cancer but it's probably (almost certainly, really) okay. Within a very short period I will no longer have cancer (at least for now). This is the best kind of cancer to have – the kind that is caught early and treated easily – but I've learned a few things on the way that I want to share with you.
Helpless to Prevent Cancer? Actually, Quite a Bit Is in Your Control (Published 2016)
Many cases of cancer are preventable, studies show, but this research has inflamed as much as it has assuaged people’s fears.
Pluralistic: It’s not normal (14 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Samantha: This town has a weird smell that you're all probably used to…but I'm not.
CIViC - Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer
On Let's Plays — That Dragon, Cancer
I've been sitting here this morning paralyzed at what to say in response to this... The last few months since we launched That Dragon, Cancer have been pretty incredible. The mainstream culture, the gamer culture, and others have all embraced our story and been willing to listen to our heart a
Pluralistic: A world without people (05 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
To be a billionaire is to be a solipsist – to secretly believe that (most) other people don't really exist – otherwise, how could you live with the knowledge that your farcical wealth and power springs from the agony you have inflicted on whole populations?
Prompting My Way Through Cancer
ChatGPT didn’t replace my care team, but it did make me a better patient.
Pluralistic: Firing the refs doesn’t end the game (12 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Let me tell you how I became a proud science denier, and how it saved my life.
Advertising is a cancer on society — Jacek Złydach
A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society.
Current-see and Death Straight Talk
I haven’t written much lately, I guess I’ve been busy… mostly with two things: Cancer & Ceptr. Currently, my time is about living with a spouse with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer and all that it takes to support her as well I can. My work is about building tools for a post-monetary society; creating a new meta-language to allow a vast expansion in social forms that is currently limited primarily by the world’s current statement of value: money. These two worlds have recently come together in ways worth writing about.
Opinion | Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me (Published 2016)
Some Christians believe God rewards the faithful. So why did I get Stage 4 cancer?
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Pluralistic: Three more AI psychoses (12 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
"AI psychosis" is one of those terms that is incredibly useful and also almost certainly going to be deprecated in smart circles in short order because it is: a) useful; b) easily colloquialized to describe related phenomena; and c) adjacent to medical issues, and there's a group of people who feel very strongly any metaphor that implicates human health is intrinsically stigmatizing and must be replaced with an awkward, lengthy phrase that no one can remember and only insiders understand.
Pluralistic: You can’t fight enshittification (31 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life.
Pluralistic: Post-political (09 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
There's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of centrists who bemoan "political polarization" and call for a politics that abandons the "tribalism of left and right."
Things that Apparently Cause Cancer
What does this methodology measure anyway?
