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Inside: When your ISP pays you; and more!
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@pluralistic Hmm, these coops sound dangerously close to *socialism* 😱
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Holy shit that collage goes hard.
@pluralistic Are you saying some people are just reading Atlas Shrugged for the pictures?
I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Cambridge, MA; Washington, #DC and #Brooklyn!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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When your ISP pays you: The New Deal keeps on giving.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115311404044923930
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When your ISP pays you: The New Deal keeps on giving.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115311404044923930
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Hey look at this
* Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs (h/t Slashdot)
* Help Dick Gaughan in seeking to retrieve his music https://www.gofundme.com/f/aatux2 (h/t Wendy Grossman)
* LLMs Are the Ultimate Demoware https://blog.charliemeyer.co/llms-are-the-ultimate-demoware/
* Mel Lastman https://www.patreon.com/posts/mel-lastman-140195778
* Who Is The Sky? | David Byrne https://davidbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/who-is-the-sky
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Hey look at this
* Evaluating the Impact of AI on the Labor Market: Current State of Affairs https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs (h/t Slashdot)
* Help Dick Gaughan in seeking to retrieve his music https://www.gofundme.com/f/aatux2 (h/t Wendy Grossman)
* LLMs Are the Ultimate Demoware https://blog.charliemeyer.co/llms-are-the-ultimate-demoware/
* Mel Lastman https://www.patreon.com/posts/mel-lastman-140195778
* Who Is The Sky? | David Byrne https://davidbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/who-is-the-sky
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#20yrsago Internet Archive and Yahoo announce open scanned-in-book index https://web.archive.org/web/20051007010920/https://www.opencontentalliance.org/
#20yrsago Europe’s Broadcast Flag: first look https://web.archive.org/web/20051026014633/https://www.eff.org/IP/DVB/dvb_critique.php
#15yrsago Mouseland: a parable from the father of Canada’s healthcare system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1GtIhwpSk
#15yrsago ElfQuest fan-film blessed by the Pinis https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/10/01/01gigaom-creator-blessed-elfquest-fan-film-crowdsources-fun-7954.html
#10yrsago Pokemon demands $4000 from broke superfan who organized Pokemon party https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/pokemon-copyright-lawyers-demand-4000-from-party-planner/
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#10yrsago Tea Party “family values” pol resigns after sending adulterous vid to entire address-book https://thefrisky.com/family-values-lawmaker-resigns-after-sexting-contact-list-with-pictures-of-affair/
#10yrsago Mayor of Stockton, CA detained by DHS at SFO, forced to give up laptop password https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Stockton-mayor-was-briefly-detained-on-return-6546419.php
#10yrsago How to flip someone off with THREE middle-fingers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-skVOUZAoFA
#5yrsago Inequality and luck and risk and merit https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/03/the-house-always-wins/#socialized-losses
#1yrago Prime's enshittified advertising https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/03/mother-may-i/#minmax
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#20yrsago Internet Archive and Yahoo announce open scanned-in-book index https://web.archive.org/web/20051007010920/https://www.opencontentalliance.org/
#20yrsago Europe’s Broadcast Flag: first look https://web.archive.org/web/20051026014633/https://www.eff.org/IP/DVB/dvb_critique.php
#15yrsago Mouseland: a parable from the father of Canada’s healthcare system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1GtIhwpSk
#15yrsago ElfQuest fan-film blessed by the Pinis https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/10/01/01gigaom-creator-blessed-elfquest-fan-film-crowdsources-fun-7954.html
#10yrsago Pokemon demands $4000 from broke superfan who organized Pokemon party https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/pokemon-copyright-lawyers-demand-4000-from-party-planner/
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