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Inside: Normie diffusion and technophilia; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/27/early-adapters/
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Toronto (TONIGHT!), #SanDiego and #Seattle!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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Normie diffusion and technophilia: Who will seize the means of computation?
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115621559391901624
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Hey look at this
* Chasing Oligarchs Across Borders https://gijn.org/stories/gijc25-cross-border-investigations-tips-oligarchs/
* Canada Needs a Commissioner Who Fights Monopolies https://action.openmedia.org/page/182266/petition/1 (h/t Do Not Pass Go)
* Fifteen Years https://xkcd.com/3172/
* The Rent Is Too Damn High: Did Trump Just 'Bless' Using AI to Jack Up Rents? https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-odd-settlement-on-rent-fixing
* Biretrograde Clock - Lasercut https://www.instructables.com/Biretrograde-Clock-Lasercut/
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#20yrsago TSA makes flier remove body jewelry https://web.archive.org/web/20051129025951/https://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_397618.html
#20yrsago Microsoft caught subverting UN process, censoring FOSS references https://web.archive.org/web/20051128030303/https://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39238443,00.htm
#15yrsago Zimbabwean law will put legislation, parliamentary gazette, etc, under state copyright https://web.archive.org/web/20101129133649/https://www.theindependent.co.zw/local/28907-general-laws-bill-inimical-to-democracy.html
#10yrsago Steiff Japan’s centaur teddybears http://www.steiff-shop.jp/2007w_ltd/037351_seet.html
#10yrsago Woman adds vaginal yeast to sourdough starter, Internet flips out https://web.archive.org/web/20180808194241/https://anotherangrywoman.com/2015/11/25/baking-and-eating-cuntsourdough/
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#10yrsago Party like it’s 1998: UK government bans ripping CDs — again https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/thanks-to-the-music-industry-it-is-illegal-to-make-private-copies-of-music-again/
#10yrsago Devastating technical rebuttal to the Snoopers Charter https://www.me.uk/IPBill-evidence1.pdf
#10yrsago AIDS-drug-gouging hedge-douche reneges on promise to cut prices for Daraprim https://www.techdirt.com/2015/11/25/turing-refuses-to-lower-cost-daraprim-hides-news-ahead-thanksgiving-holiday/
#10yrsago US credit union regulator crushed Internet Archive’s non-predatory, game-changing bank https://blog.archive.org/2015/11/24/difficult-times-at-our-credit-union/
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#10yrsago The last quarter-century of climate talks explained, in comics form https://web.archive.org/web/20151126142914/http://www.nature.com/news/the-fragile-framework-1.18861
#10yrsago The Paradox: a secret history of magical London worthy of Tim Powers https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/26/the-paradox-a-secret-history-of-magical-london-worthy-of-tim-powers/
#1yrago Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/26/hawtch-hawtch/#you-treasure-what-you-measure
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