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@pluralistic@mamot.fr · activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#10yrsago Make: the simplest electric car toy, a homopolar motor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzJr1jjHnQ

#10yrsago Thomas Piketty seminar on Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2016/01/04/thomas-piketty-seminar/

#10yrsago MAKE: a tiki-mug menorah https://web.archive.org/web/20151208123229/http://news.critiki.com/2015/12/05/tiki-mug-menorah-a-how-to-from-poly-hai/

#10yrsago Harvard Business School: Talented assholes are more trouble than they’re worth https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication Files/16-057_d45c0b4f-fa19-49de-8f1b-4b12fe054fea.pdf

SIMPLEST HOMOPOLAR MOTOR Simple magnet car | Magnetic Games

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#10yrsago Multi-generational cruelty: America’s prisons shutting down kids’ visitations https://web.archive.org/web/20151204063410/https://www.thenation.com/article/2-7m-kids-have-parents-in-prison-theyre-losing-their-right-to-visit/

#10yrsago READ: Kim Stanley Robinson’s first standalone story in 25 years! https://reactormag.com/oral-argument-kim-stanley-robinson//

#10yrsago French Ministry of Interior wants to ban open wifi, Tor https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/france-looking-at-banning-tor-blocking-public-wi-fi/

#5yrsago China’s war on big data backstabbing https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/07/backstabbed/#big-data-backstabbing

#5yrsago The largest strike in human history https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/surveillance-tulip-bulbs/#modi-miscalulation

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

#5yrsago Ad-tech as a bubble overdue for a bursting https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/06/surveillance-tulip-bulbs/#adtech-bubble

#1yrago Battery rationality https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/06/shoenabombers/#paging-dick-cheney

#1yrago A year in illustration (2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/07/great-kepplers-ghost/#art-adjacent

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Saturday's threads: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115674761066650994

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels

My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

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Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

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."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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