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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp last month

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: By all means, tread on those people; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/

#Pluralistic

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The Gadsen 'DONT TREAD ON ME' flag; the text has been replaced with 'THERE MUST BE IN-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW PROTECTS BUT DOES NOT BIND ALONGSIDE OUT-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW BINDS BUT DOES NOT PROTECT.'
The Gadsen 'DONT TREAD ON ME' flag; the text has been replaced with 'THERE MUST BE IN-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW PROTECTS BUT DOES NOT BIND ALONGSIDE OUT-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW BINDS BUT DOES NOT PROTECT.'
The Gadsen 'DONT TREAD ON ME' flag; the text has been replaced with 'THERE MUST BE IN-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW PROTECTS BUT DOES NOT BIND ALONGSIDE OUT-GROUPS WHOM THE LAW BINDS BUT DOES NOT PROTECT.'
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bovaz@misskey.social
@bovaz@misskey.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
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"Conservatives say they revere property rights above all else, claiming that every other human right stems from the vigorous enforcement of property relations."
" And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." - Granny Weatherwax from
#discworld

If every right stems from property, of course they'd consider people to be things
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Tony Vladusich
@TonyVladusich@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
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Interesting etymology

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

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Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 
@jstatepost@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
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Just FYI,"Wilhoit's Law" is actually from a 2018 blog response by 59-year-old Ohio composer Frank Wilhoit [Wikidata], years after political scientist Francis Wilhoit's death.
It is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit, a political scientist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit
#WilhoitsLaw
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

The most enshittification-proof way to get the Enshittification audiobook, ebook and hardcover is to pre-order them on my Kickstarter! Help me do an end-run around the Amazon/Audible audiobook monopoly and disenshittify your audiobook experience in the process:

http://disenshittification.org

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NikuNashi
@nikunashi@ieji.de replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
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Always happy to buy your de-shit. 👍

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@nikunashi Thank you!
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Saucetweet
@Saucetweet@defcon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pluralistic @nikunashi is it better to pre order from libro.fm or Kickstarter?? I already have a libro account and not a Kickstarter
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Human after all
@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pluralistic Yes but JFC, Edward Snowden?
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

By all means, tread on those people: We know you love freedom, we just wish you'd share.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115096685134523818

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Negahyphen
@Negahyphen@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
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Image of shoe reading “tread on those that tread on others”
Image of shoe reading “tread on those that tread on others”
Image of shoe reading “tread on those that tread on others”
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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

Hey look at this

* Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes https://www.404media.co/citizen-is-using-ai-to-generate-crime-alerts-with-no-human-review-its-making-a-lot-of-mistakes/

* How To Argue With An AI Booster https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/

* We must fight age verification with all we have https://www.usermag.co/p/we-must-fight-age-verification-with

* Sqinks: Transreal Cyberpunk Love Story https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rudyrucker/sqinks

* LibreOffice: a Strategic Asset for Governments and Enterprises Focused on Digital Sovereignty and Privacy https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/25/libreoffice-25-8-backgrounder/

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
#20yrsago Oakland sheriffs detain people for carrying cameras https://thomashawk.com/2005/08/right-to-bear-cameras.html

#10yrsago New Zealand gov’t promises secret courts for accused terrorists https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/attorney-general-says-law-society-got-it-wrong-over-secret-courts/E5JHYBTMVSIBZ62UNGEWB4DPEA/?c_id=1&objectid=11503094

#10yrsago Platform Cooperativism: a worker-owned Uber for everything https://platformcoop.net/

#10yrsago GOP “kingmaker” proposes enslavement as an answer to undocumented migrants https://www.thedailybeast.com/iowa-gop-kingmaker-has-a-slavery-proposal-for-immigration/

#10yrsago Six years after unprovoked beating, Denver cop finally fired https://kdvr.com/news/video-evidence-determined-fate-of-denver-officer-in-excessive-force-dispute-fired-after-6-years/

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
#10yrsago Samsung fridges can leak your Gmail logins https://web.archive.org/web/20150825014450/https://www.pentestpartners.com/blog/hacking-defcon-23s-iot-village-samsung-fridge/

#10yrsago German student ditches apartment, buys an unlimited train pass https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/22/how-one-german-millennial-chose-to-live-on-trains-rather-than-pay-rent/

#10yrsago Ashley Madison’s founding CTO claimed he hacked competing dating site https://www.wired.com/2015/08/ashley-madison-leak-reveals-ex-cto-hacked-competing-site/

#5yrsago Telepresence Nazi-punching https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/25/anxietypunk/#smartibots

#5yrsago Ballistic Kiss https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/25/anxietypunk/#bk

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

Yesterday's threads: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter); and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115090070282146769

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