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Inside: By all means, tread on those people; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/
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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
"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
@pluralistic
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
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
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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@pluralistic
Always happy to buy your de-shit. 👍
@nikunashi Thank you!
@pluralistic @nikunashi is it better to pre order from libro.fm or Kickstarter?? I already have a libro account and not a Kickstarter
@pluralistic Yes but JFC, Edward Snowden?
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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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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#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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#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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Yesterday's threads: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter); and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115090070282146769
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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
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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from 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."
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