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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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The enshittification of labor: Pavlina Tcherneva, getting her peanut butter in my chocolate.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115509141999203422
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Hey look at this
* What EFF Needs in a New Executive Director https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/what-eff-needs-new-executive-director
* Complaint v Ireland to European Commission re process appointing ex-Meta lobbyist as Data Protection Commissioner https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/complaint-v-ireland-to-european-commission-re-process-appointing-ex-meta-lobbyist-as-data-protection-commissioner/
* Budget 2025 talks a big competition game but lacks punch https://www.donotpassgo.ca/p/budget-2025-talks-a-big-competition
* Snug Plug https://snugplugstore.com/
* Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators with the Industries Who Rarely Have https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5620230
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#20yrsago PATRIOT Act secret-superwarrants use is up 10,000 percent https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR2005110501366_pf.html
#10yrsago Protopiper: tape-gun-based 3D printer extrudes full-size furniture prototypes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beRA4sIjxa8
#10yrsago EFF on TPP: all our worst fears confirmed https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/release-full-tpp-text-after-five-years-secrecy-confirms-threats-users-rights
#10yrsago TPP will ban rules that require source-code disclosure https://www.keionline.org/39045
#10yrsago Publicity Rights could give celebrities a veto over creative works https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/eff-asks-supreme-court-apply-first-amendment-speech-about-celebrities-0
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#10yrsago How TPP will clobber Canada’s municipal archives and galleries of historical city photos https://www.geekman.ca/single-post/2015/11/the-tpp-vs-municipal-archives.html
#5yrsago HP ends its customers' lives https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/06/horrible-products/#inkwars
#1yrago Every internet fight is a speech fight https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/brazilian-blowout/#sovereignty-sure-but-human-rights-even-moreso
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Yesterday's threads: The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115502961501455604
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