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Inside: Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/23/traveling-salesman-solution/
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Reverse centuars, like the CEO is making in Sorry to Bother You (2018)?
Which came first, the movie reference or the automation term?
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In Germany people like to complain about the so called fake-self-employment "Scheinselbständigkeit" and while not perfect, it does keep some of these atrocities at bay. Essentially it means that if you treat a business partner like an employee and they act like your employee, they can be declared your employee with full employment rights, pay, social security and so on - and retroactively, sometimes years back. And the employers have to foot the bill on any missed social security.
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Wouldn't a reverse centaur be a horses head on a human pelvis!
Or maybe a horse torso in a human neck?
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Nothing like the centralized command and control economies of oligarchy of the marketplace.
Gotta love that free speech, free market and freedom.
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Vancouver, #Montreal and #Ottawa!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
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(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Vancouver, #Montreal and #Ottawa!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
(New dates just added in #SanDiego and #Denver!)
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@pluralistic @ajuvo Deutschland wann? (We‘d love for you to tour Germany 😊 )
Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs: When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you're not even allowed to call yourself an employee.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115425290061414214
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Reading the whole article on CRC (chickenized reverse-centaurs) is staggering. Do it and tell me you still have an account at that cesspool. I would not even touch Signal, as long as they are giving large amounts of their donations to Jeff B.
Hey look at this
* Ethiopia in Talks With China to Convert Dollar Loans to Yuan https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-20/ethiopia-in-talks-with-china-to-convert-dollar-loans-into-yuan
* This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services https://www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
* No Tricks, Just Treats 🎃 EFF’s Halloween Signal Stickers Are Here! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/no-tricks-just-treats-effs-halloween-signal-stickers-are-here
* How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable
* Does the Left Have Trouble with Making Things in America? https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-left-can-protest
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#10yrsago Hungarian camerawoman who tripped refugee announces she will sue that refugee https://www.techdirt.com/2015/10/21/hungarian-camera-woman-filmed-tripping-refugees-plans-to-sue-facebook-refugee-she-tripped/
#10yrsago Entropy explained, beautifully, in comic-book form https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/10/03/sousanis/XOMd3JBYnEdzQCWHM6twTJ/story.html
#10yrsago How a mathematician teaches “Little Brother” to a first-year seminar https://derekbruff.org/2015/10/21/in-class-collaborative-debate-mapping-or-how-a-mathematician-teaches-a-novel/
#10yrsago UK “anti-radicalisation” law can take kids from thoughtcriming parents in secret trials https://www.techdirt.com/2015/10/21/uk-goes-full-orwell-government-to-take-children-away-parents-if-they-might-become-radicalized/
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